Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered and on investigation he discovers she was mixed up with some very dangerous people. Alex and his girlfriend Brianna Stone find leads to Washington's most infamous club where every fantasy is possible and the patrons, the elite of Washington, will do anything to keep their secrets buried.
Fin des seventies. San Francisco, la fureur au cœur et au corps, consomme la libération sexuelle sous des néons tapageurs. Débarquant de Cleveland, la jeune Mary Ann Singleton plante son camp au 28 Barbary Lane, un refuge pour « chats errants ». Logeuse pour le moins libérale, Mme Madrigal règne en douce matriarche sur cette étonnante pension de famille... « Ça va à toute vitesse, avec la profondeur d'un roman d'analyse et la légèreté d'un sitcom.» Stéphane Hoffmann, Madame Figaro Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Olivier Weber et Tristan Duverne
"When the bady of eleven year old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco bay, the police qwiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defence, is quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.
A powerful, compelling, vividly written Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane Harper
Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.
When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows. Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares. But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen. Accusing him, holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance
Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings, but who is behind them and why? As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it...
Kay Scarpetta est experte en sciences l gales sur CNN et conseill re aupr s du m decin en chef de l'institut m dico-l gal de New York. Le producteur de CNN souhaite que Scarpetta lance une nouvelle mission. Mais cette notori t accrue semble d clencher une s rie d' v nements inattendus. Alors qu'elle intervient en direct au sujet d'une affaire tr s m diatis e, la disparition et la mort pr sum e d'une millionnaire, Kay re oit un appel surprenant d'une t l spectatrice, qui se r v le tre une ancienne patiente de son mari Benton Wesley, et, de retour chez elle, elle trouve un inqui tant paquet. Scarpetta, dont la vie est menac e, se lance alors dans une enqu te qui implique un acteur c l bre, qu'on accuse d'un crime sexuel, et sa ni ce Lucy, qui aurait eu des liens avec la millionnaire disparue... En mati re de sciences l gales, nul n' gale Cornwell New York Times Book Review
Elle est allongée sur le sol du garage. Inerte. Ses jolis vêtements sont imprégnés de sang. Épouvantée, Nikki secoue sa mère. En vain. Devant ce corps déjà froid, elle doit se rendre à l'évidence : on l'a assassinée. Pour la retenir encore un peu, Nikki enquête auprès de ses proches, ose les questions qu'elle n'a pas eu le temps de poser. Les réponses ont un parfum de révélations...
Elfrida Phipps, sessantenne ex attrice di musical, è affranta dal dolore per la morte dell'uomo che ha sempre amato. Oscar Blundell, musicista in pensione, ha perso la moglie e la figlia in un tragico incidente. Uniti dalle avversità, Oscar e Elfrida decidono di lasciarsi alle spalle il passato e di trasferirsi in Scozia per ricucire le fila delle loro esistenze. Il primo Natale trascorso insieme ridà a entrambi la forza di ricominciare a vivere e di riassaporare la gioia dei sentimenti.
