Anna Rusconi Ordre des livres (chronologique)

This collection brings together Patricia Cornwell's first three thrillers. In "Fatal Weekend," a serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Kay Scarpetta, along with her niece Lucy, attempts to track down the murderer, but someone is sabotaging the investigation to ruin Scarpetta's reputation. In "Corpus Delicti," Beryl Madison is being stalked, receiving threatening phone calls. Yet, for inexplicable reasons, she lets her killer into her home one night. In "All That Remains," the car of a young couple is found abandoned in a remote location, and months later, their bodies are discovered. The mystery deepens with the appearance of a strange playing card found with each corpse. This omnibus showcases Cornwell's signature blend of suspense and forensic detail, as Scarpetta navigates complex cases while confronting personal and professional challenges.

Iran, 1920. Shapur, dieci anni, è ansioso per il viaggio a Yadz con suo padre, dove spera di assaporare dolci prelibatezze. Tuttavia, un incidente segna la sua vita: suo padre, umiliato da un reale musulmano, decide di lasciare la sua terra per cercare un destino migliore. Il loro viaggio li porta a Dahanu, vicino a Bombay, dove scoprono un frutto dolcissimo che cambierà le loro vite. Ottant’anni dopo, Shapur è diventato ricchissimo grazie a quella terra e al suo frutto, che considera la sua piantagione e la sua eredità. Ora, pronto a ritirarsi, ha scelto Zairos, il suo giovane e viziato erede, per custodire le sue memorie. Tuttavia, quando Zairos si innamora di una schiava warli, Shapur è costretto a mettere in discussione tutto ciò in cui ha sempre creduto. Questo amore proibito lo porterà a scoprire un segreto di famiglia che il nonno aveva cercato di nascondere per oltre cinquant’anni.

The brilliant new Rebus novel from 'Britain's No. 1 crime writer' [Daily Mirror].

Bombay, 1993. Chamdi ha dieci anni e vive alle porte della città, lontano dai violenti scontri tra induisti e musulmani, dalle moschee bruciate e dai negozi svaligiati. La sua non è una vera casa, è un orfanotrofio, perché i genitori lo hanno abbandonato appena nato. Il suo mondo è fatto del colore acceso delle bouganville, delle canzoni, dei giochi. E delle preghiere silenziose perché qualcuno arrivi e lo porti via. Ma lui ha un grande sogno, che Bombay si trasformi in una città senza tristezza, un luogo in cui i bambini possono giocare per le strade e in cui non ci sono figli senza genitori. Chamdi sa che quella degli orfani è una vita a metà, i loro occhi non splendono, hanno solo una luce presa in prestito: per questo sembrano tristi anche quando ridono. Così decide di andarsene, di partire alla ricerca del padre, con in tasca una manciata di petali di bouganville. Perdendosi per i vicoli sporchi e affollati, Chamdi incontra Sumdi e la sorella Guddi, che per strada ci vivono fin dalla nascita. E in breve si trova a chiedere l'elemosina insieme a una spaventosa corte dei miracoli al servizio di un bandito senza pietà. Eppure Chamdi non vuole abbandonare i suoi sogni, e quando Guddi sarà in pericolo di vita, scoprirà quanto sia fragile l'innocenza ma quanto forte possa essere l'amicizia.

Rebus is off the case. A few days into a murder inquiry following the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at DCS Gill Templer. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining'. In other words, he's in the Last Chance Saloon. Rebus is given an old, unsolved case to work on, in order to teach him and others the merits of teamwork. But there are those in the team who have their own secrets - and they'll stop at nothing to protect them. As if this wasn't enough, Rebus is asked to act as a go-between for gangster 'Big Ger' Cafferty. And as newly promoted DS Siobhan Clarke works the case of the murdered art dealer, she is brought closer to Cafferty than she could ever have anticipated . . .

Meet Harry Pickles - aged nine-years old, he is the fastest runner in the world (probably) and the first son of the best looking parents in the school car park. Harry's life is good - at least, it was until the school trip

The memoirs of Irish Times journalist Nuala O'Faolain. The book traces her life from childhood in Dublin, through university, to her career in TV and the press, touching on her mother's alcoholism and her growing acceptance of age. This extended edition includes a selection of her journalism.

When three bodies are discovered at Queensbury House, home to the new Scottish Parliament, Rebus finds himself digging up secrets twenty years buried.

John Rebus parcourait la jungle de la ville, une jungle que les touristes ne voient jamais, trop occupés à mitrailler les temples dorés du passé. Édimbourg était une ville d'apparences ; le crime n'y était pas moins présent, tout juste plus difficile à repérer. Édimbourg était schizophrène, la ville de Jekyll et Hyde, bien entendu, mais aussi celle de Deacon Brodie, des manteaux de fourrure sans petite culotte, comme on disait à Glasgow. Mais c'était aussi une petite ville. Un avantage pour Rebus. Il traqua sa proie dans les bars à voyous, dans les lotissements où le chômage et l'héroïne tenaient lieu de blason, parce qu'il savait que quelqu'un d'aguerri saurait survivre dans cet anonymat. Jetant un coup d'œil à la ronde, il vit qu'il avait atterri au cœur du désespoir.

Alain de Botton pairs six philosophers - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - with six everyday problems to which they are able to give the most helpful and fascinating answers.

A body is discovered in a Virginia landfill. The details --- expert removal of head and limbs --- mirror that of a case Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been investigating in Ireland. But for Scarpetta, the game has only just begun. The killer boldly contacts her via the Internet, signing off with the ominous screen name deadoc. As her investigation deepens, Scarpetta discovers that the victim in Virginia was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus before she was killed, and that Scarpetta herself could be infected. Now she knows she is up against a killer unlike any she has pursued before --- a relentless psychopath with access to an incredibly sophisticated arsenal of deadly force. And with a very personal interest in seeing Kay Scarpetta suffer.

Le cadavre de son ami Ted Eddings, un journaliste, retrouvé au fond de l'eau dans une zone militaire interdite, lance le médecin légiste Kay Scarpetta sur les traces d'une secte manipulée par un réseau terroriste international. En compagnie de Lucy, sa nièce, devenue un agent du FBI, et de son complice Marino, le flic macho, au grand cœur, elle affronte d'implacables ennemis, tout au long d'un suspense où les technologies de pointe et la réalité virtuelle bouleversent les données de l'enquête criminelle... Patricia Cornwell a connu une célébrité immédiate avec son premier roman, Postmortem, Prix Edgar Poe aux Etats-Unis et, en France, Prix du Roman d'aventures 1992. Mémoires mortes, Et il ne resta que poussière..., Une mort sans nom sont aujourd'hui des best-sellers dans vingt-quatre pays.

Une anthropologiste judiciaire (comme Patricia Cornwell) lance une héroïne qui fait son métier dans une étrange affaire de tueur en série qui se passe à Montréal. [SDM]

Christmas has never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, the festivities always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI. The body was naked, female, and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work. Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark, menacing labyrinths of the New York subway.

Crime sadique à Black Mountain, une petite ville endormie au fin fond de la Caroline du Nord, Emily onze ans, n'a été retrouvée que plusieurs jours après sa disparition, et bien des indices mènent au sinistre Temple Gault, que n'ont sûrement pas oublié les lecteurs d'Une peine d'exception... L'affaire se complique gravement lorsqu'un policier local, Ferguson, est retrouvé mort à son tour, victime d'une mise en scène érotique des plus singulières. Le séduisant Benton Wesley, le dévoué Marino - macho hélas incurable - épaule le Docteur Kay Scarpetta dans cette nouvelle enquête où l'on retrouve la sensibilité féminine et la technologie scientifique haut de gamme qui confèrent aux romans de Patricia Cornwell leur ambiance inimitable.

Etrange cérémonial que de préparer l'autopsie d'un homme qui n'est pas encore mort... C'est pourtant à quoi s'occupe le médecin-légiste Kay Scarpetta, en ce soir de décembre, en attendant le corps de Ronnie Joe Waddell, qui ne sera officiellement déclaré mort sur la chaise électrique qu'à 23h 05. Cette même nuit, le corps d'un adolescent de treize ans est découvert, mutilé, contre une benne à ordures. Et l'on relève sur les lieux du crime l'empreinte digitale d'un homme qui ne peut pas être coupable - cette même empreinte qui a fait condamner Waddell...

In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them ...