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MallorySéries

Cette série suit la vie d'une jeune étudiante d'une petite ville de l'Iowa, qui écrit également des romans policiers. Au fur et à mesure qu'elle rencontre de nouveaux mystères, réels ou imaginaires, elle plonge dans des mondes d'intrigue et de déduction. Son intelligence vive et son approche créative de la résolution de problèmes la propulsent dans des aventures palpitantes. C'est la lecture idéale pour ceux qui apprécient les intrigues intelligentes et les protagonistes dotés d'un talent unique pour résoudre des énigmes.

Nice Weekend for a Murder
No Cure for Death
The Baby Blue Rip-Off
A Shroud for Aquarius
Kill Your Darlings

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  1. 1

    The Baby Blue Rip-Off

    • 178pages
    • 7 heures de lecture
    3,0(2)Évaluer

    Budding mystery writer Mallory was just trying to impress a politically correct girlfriend by delivering hot meals to little old ladies. The last thing he expected was to find his elderly charges such fascinating company, and when one sweet old gal meets an unexpectedly grisly fate, Mal sets out to find and stop the burglars who this time stole a life. The last thing the local sheriff needs, however, is a meddling civilian — even if the professions the young writer pursued before coming back home to sleepy Port City, Iowa, included reporter, soldier, and cop. But Mal’s weakness is the fairer sex, and when he’s distracted by a high-school flame who got away, he has to wonder if he’s been blonde-sided. Back on track seeking the killers, Mal finds out the hard way that a murder mystery in real life could close the book on him…forever.

    The Baby Blue Rip-Off
  2. 2

    No Cure for Death

    • 212pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    3,0(2)Évaluer

    What kind of drama could happen in a small-town Iowa bus station? If you're a guy like Mallory, it's the kind that involves sidestepping trouble between a pretty, frightened blonde and a pretty frightening, two-fisted, one-eyed goon. With the help of a handy Pepsi bottle, Mallory saves the lady from the menacing lout, shares a heartfelt moment, and sees her safely off, wistfully wondering if they'll ever meet again. End of story? Not a chance. Even though it's Mallory's best buddy, John, who's visiting on leave from combat in Vietnam, it's Mallory who has a nasty flashback--when that same sweet blonde drops back into his life after losing hers. But how did she go from a bus out of town to a car at the bottom of a cliff? Why is her "accident" a dead ringer for the one that killed a scandal-scarred senator? And is local lawman Sheriff Brennan helping to hush things up? The questions are good ones, and Mallory wants answers--bad. But if he crosses the wrong people, things could get ugly....

    No Cure for Death
  3. 3

    Kill Your Darlings

    • 218pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    3,0(1)Évaluer

    "Roscoe Kane is one of the last - and, in Mallory's opinion, best - of the old-school mystery writers. Back in the day, he turned out crime thrillers filled with babes, bullets, and tough-guy banter. But today Kane is filled with bitterness over the nosedive his career took after he sued a publisher. For Mallory, who learned his craft at Kane's knee, it's tough watching his literary hero drown his sorrows in booze - but it's a million times tougher finding the old master drowned in a hotel bathtub. Some call it ironic that Kane meets his end in the middle of Bouchercon, the famed convention that's a mecca for mystery writers. The Chicago coroner calls it a drunken mishap. But Mallory spies treachery mingled with the tragedy. Just like a classic whodunit, there's a gallery full of suspects - from a scorned ex-wife and an ostracized gay son to an underhanded publisher and a roster of rival writers with axes to grind. Throw in a knockout dame who gives Mallory a private eyeful, an alluring widow who's not too sad to be seductive, and a clutch of thugs who let their knuckles do the talking, and Mallory has his hands full finding justice for his hero"--Author's website.

    Kill Your Darlings
  4. 4

    A Shroud for Aquarius

    • 202pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    3,5(4)Évaluer

    The sixties are dead...and so is Ginnie Mullens. She was many things--free spirit, flower child, entrepreneur, gambler--but first and foremost she was mystery writer Mallory's friend and confidant since childhood. So Mallory understands when Sheriff Brennan drags him out of bed in the dead of night and leads him to the last place he ever wanted to go: the scene of Ginnie's last breath. A dead woman clutching the gun that killed her may lead to an official ruling of suicide, but Mallory's not ruling out murder. Driven by a gaping hole in his heart and a fierce code of honor, he's willing to risk everything to close the book on this one. Then he'll throw the book with both hands at whoever wrote Ginnie's obituary in spilled blood. Once upon a time, Ginnie hurt Mallory deeply, and he wasn't the only one. But while he finally forgave her, the same can't be said for the trail of bitter lovers that stretches back to high school. Pounding the pavement from Port City to Iowa City to Vegas--with detours down memory lane along the way-- Mallory is forced to pull back the shroud on a life he only thought he knew... and never realized he couldn't save.

    A Shroud for Aquarius
  5. 5

    Nice Weekend for a Murder

    • 218pages
    • 8 heures de lecture
    3,2(6)Évaluer

    A mountaintop mansion. A motley collection of guests. A murder. This weekend has all the makings of a classic, cozy mystery story. And a story is all it's supposed to be--acted out by noted authors and eager fans at the atmospheric Mohonk Mountain House resort in upstate New York. Along with a gaggle of his peers, Mallory's been invited to join the fun by donning a costume and an alter-ego to pose as a "suspect." But before you can say "nobody leaves this room!", Mallory is once again thrust into the role of driven detective when the game's designated "corpse" turns up decidedly dead. There's no doubt that the victim, notorious mystery-novel critic Kirk Rath, incited the murderous wrath of nearly every writer he reviewed. But even the most scathing critical barbs never drove a writer to put down the pen in favor of the sword. And even Mallory is baffled by the curious circumstances surrounding the mystery within a mystery. Did he actually witness Rath being run through by a masked figure in the snowy darkness? Was Rath really spotted alive and sneering after the bloody fact? Is someone playing mind games? And is everyone in the house fair game? Murder will out, as they say. But can even the masterful Mallory outwit a roguish gallery of the finest plotters in print?

    Nice Weekend for a Murder