Cet auteur élabore des récits policiers captivants qui plongent souvent dans les réalités âpres de la vie urbaine. Son style se caractérise par une perspicacité aiguë de la nature humaine et un engagement envers des représentations réalistes de l'enquête. À travers ses œuvres, il explore les motivations complexes des personnages et les facettes plus sombres de la société. Les lecteurs apprécient sa capacité à créer des atmosphères immersives et des intrigues complexes.
Curillian, King of Maristonia, is on a quest to find the mythic mountain Oron Amular. Carea, an elven princess, has been captured by his enemies. She alone can secure his passage through ancient Kalimar. Curillian must find a way to win through to the Mountain and rescue his talisman, or else renounce his quest for Power Unimaginable...
Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder.
`Wonderful ... Michael Harvey has put his own unique touch on the crime novel' Michael Connelly
When Michael Kelly is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband, what looks like a bread-and-butter domestic dispute turns out to be more than he bargained for. The tail leads him to a body and the answer to one of Chicago's most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Fire of 1871 and why.
This much respected text is an essential guide to all areas of the law relating to abuse of process in criminal law - including delay, double jeopardy, breach of promise and adverse publicity.
'Harvey's lethal imagination is cranked up to eleven in this one ... His best yet by far. Superb' Lee Child Daniel Fitzsimmons seems like an ordinary American teenager. He loves his brother, his friends, his school work. But Daniel has powers. Powers that he does not understand and is not sure he can control. Daniel can't risk telling those around him what is happening, but when a mysterious stranger offers an insight into what he is experiencing, he becomes Daniel's unofficial mentor. And when a tragedy threatens to derail his life, and with the police growing ever more interested in his past, Daniel's powers will finally come into their own.
Updated for the needs of today's students--and with handy citation style guides adapted from The Chicago Manual of Style, Seventeenth Edition, the MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition, and the Publication Manual of the APA , Seventh Edition--the third edition of The Nuts and Bolt of College Writing offers essential guidance for college writers at all levels. Praise for previous editions: "This wonderful little book has helped improve the level of writing in all the courses I teach. No one should graduate from college without having used it." --Gonzalo Munevar, Lawrence Technological University "With concision and wit, Harvey shows college students how to write papers that are clear, cogent, and also stylish." --James Miller, editor, Dædalus "Simply the best guide to clear and effective writing since Strunk and White. Indispensable for students--and for their teachers." --Terry Nardin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. PI Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous email offering to pay him nearly a quarter million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kelly's investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind - his wife, Marie. Ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds, Marie tells Kelly she has no idea where her husband is. Like everyone else, Kelly doesn't believe her. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly begins to unwind Marie Perry's past. What he finds is a woman who turns out to be even more intriguing than her husband, with her own deeply complicated reasons for standing by him. Everyone in Chicago has secrets, including the governor's wife. Some of them she shared with her husband. Some of them she kept to herself. And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed. The Governor's Wife is a hard-eyed look at the intersection of the political and the personal, at the perils of trusting even those closest to us and the collateral damage of our highest aspirations. This is stylish, knock-out suspense from a modern master.
Adventurous journeys across diverse landscapes define this exhilarating collection of road trips. From navigating treacherous mountain roads in a Ferrari to exploring the Australian outback in a Toyota Land Cruiser, each escapade combines elements of bravery and humor. Readers will experience thrilling drives in a variety of vehicles, including luxury and quirky cars, while discovering iconic locations like Dracula's castle. Perfect for car enthusiasts and adventure seekers alike, this book promises a captivating ride filled with unforgettable experiences.
A light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, releasing a deadly pathogen.Within hours, a homeless man, a cop, and then dozens more start to die.Hospitals become morgues. 'L' trains become rolling hearses.Chicago is on the verge of chaos before the mayor finally acts, quarantining entire sections of the city. Meanwhile, cop-turned-PI Michael Kelly hunts for the people responsible. The search takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago's west-side gangs and the even more terrifying world of black biology - an elite field operating covertly at the nation's top labs, where scientists play God and will do anything necessary to keep their secrets safe.
