Klassiske krimier

Une libraire dont l'enfance va ressurgir malgré elle. Une série de victimes énigmatiques. Deux policiers qui vont devoir apprendre à travailler ensemble. Un manuscrit étrange qui a traversé les siècles sans qu'aucun scientifique n'ait pu en décrypter l'écriture... Et un chat.Tels sont les ingrédients de ce polar, pas comme les autres, dont le déroulement est indissociable de l'existence, réelle, d'un manuscrit vieux de plus de six cents ans... Le plus vieux du monde mais aussi le plus mystérieux : le Manuscrit Voynich, sauvegardé dans un coffre-fort et connu sous la référence MS 408.Un univers que seuls les Anges pourront peut-être éclairer. A moins qu'un chat, ou un miroir...

Recently hired as the assistant librarian at Masterson College, Eric Merton is thrown into a bewildering maelstrom of murder and mayhem. It begins with the brutal slaying of the head librarian's administrative assistant. Meanwhile controversy arises about an embargoed journal that may hold a crucial medical secret. As the bodies pile up, will Eric be able to figure out the killer's identity before he, too, becomes yet another victim?Masterson Murders draws on author Peter Abbot's long experience in academic life to draw a compelling portrait of a university library under siege. It's a whodunit unlike any other, with surprises right to the very last line.

New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel focusing on Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they must solve the stabbing death of a young woman before panic spreads across London.On a rainy November evening, a young woman hurries through the crowd in London's historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her, then brushes past. A moment later, she stumbles, collapsing against a tree. When a young mother finds her body and alerts the police, Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene. The victim, Sasha Johnson, is a trainee doctor at a nearby hospital, and she's been stabbed.Kincaid immediately calls his detective wife, Gemma James, who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crime. Along with her partner, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma joins the investigation. But Sasha Johnson doesn't fit the profile of the typical knife crime victim. Single, successful, daughter of a black professional family, she has no history of abusive relationships or any connection to gangs. She had her secrets, though, and Kincaid uncovers an awkward connection to his Notting Hill friends Wesley and Betty Howard.As the detectives unravel Sasha's tangled relationships, another stabbing puts London in a panic, and Kincaid's team needs all their resources to find the killer stalking the dark streets of Bloomsbury. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Como se verá más adelante, Pigmalión necesita, no un prefacio, sino un apéndice, que he puesto en su debido lugar. Los ingleses no tienen respeto a su idioma y no quieren enseñar a sus hijos a hablarlo. Lo pronuncian tan abominablemente que nadie puede aprender, por sí solo, a imitar sus sonidos. Es imposible que un inglés abra la boca sin hacerse odiar y despreciar por otro inglés. El alemán o el español suena claro para oídos extranjeros; el inglés no suena claro ni para oídos ingleses. El reformador que hoy le haría falta a Inglaterra es un enérgico y entusiástico conocedor de la fonética. Por esta razón, el protagonista de mi obra es el tal conocedor. Entusiastas por el estilo han existido en los tiempos pasados, pero clamaban en el desierto.

RAVENSWOOD CRIME SERIES - BOOK 1A man is shot dead in a pub car park. DCI Watson and his sidekick, DS Monteith, investigate but something is off...When more murders take place, it becomes clear a serial killer is active. Who are they targeting, and what is the link with the local prison?And what is Monteith's connection to one of Ravenswood's dark criminals?Find out in NO REPRIEVE... when prison punishment is not enough.¿¿¿¿¿My new favourite crime writer!Tony Millington had me hooked from the word go with No Reprieve. I enjoyed the psychological insights offered, and all the twists and turns. The characters were well drawn and really interesting and I found the plot really intriguing. I'm looking forward to the next novel about Monteith and Watson. I would dearly love to see this book made into a film or TV series.Nina, Amazon reviewer¿¿¿¿¿A cracking crime storyThis is the first outing for detectives Monteith and Watson as they are thrown into the deep end to investigate a brutal murder within a pub car park. As they begin to dig, more people die. A gripping thriller which includes other subplots, crime readers are sure to enjoy this book. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one in the series.Alistair Birch, thriller author¿¿¿¿¿Couldn't put it down!Great characters, suspense, anticipation, this book has it all. I found I had to keep reading as each chapter had you wanting more.Grant Spillman

Though Rook Campbell's life is full of challenges with work and caring for her ailing grandma, she's decided it's time to focus on her job at a local distillery, reignite her love life, and move forward from her ex --all which proves to be much easier said than done. Meanwhile, distillers from all over have entered a prestigious bourbon contest for big bucks, prizes, and coveted bragging rights in the bourbon community. The Mermaid Cove Distillery, co-owned by Rook's friend, Patrice Dawson, is poised to take away the prize, which will solve many financial problems for the struggling business. But another distiller at the competition isn't interested in fighting fair. So when Patrice goes missing, Rook is certain the culprit is within the bourbon community. She's determined to find Patrice or die trying. ¿

For ex-con Casey Cavendish, a quest for family and a new life becomes a primal battle for survival.¿¿ After clearing her name but burning her bridges in Ohio, Casey Cavendish ventures to New England in search of a mystery man she believes to be her father and to find a place to call her own. Instead, she becomes embroiled with a new-found dysfunctional family: a rich, legally blind Irish widow, her disabled and severely disfigured sister, a cousin who lives under a bridge and collects cans, and an estranged but charismatic son-in-law who appears to claim his inheritance.Casey is swept into a flood of dangerous undercurrents of family secrets, greed, and deadly vendettas which threaten her and those she's come to love and hold dear.

History is just a story.The villains and the heroes are decided by whoever holds the pen, the opposite side unable to fact check.Usually because they're dead.Cynthia "Cyn" Sharp is used to being talked about. Chased off by chicken farmers, strippers, and oversharing medical professionals, every ridiculous story true and embarrassingly accurate.But what if the most important story is the one no one is telling- and it ruined a man's life.Dr. Robert Denicourt just wants to bring his father home, but the demons haunting him are twenty years old. No one questioned the reports by which he was sentenced but it's not too late to give him his life back, if only he could let go of the past.Serving those who served has a cost, and Cyn and Winnie are putting themselves in the crosshairs to restore a lost soldiers honor.

Jamie Forest, transplanted New Yorker, is enjoying her first spring in the Northwoods of Minnesota when her octogenarian friend Clarence introduces her to an elderly recluse, Nella Fox. Nella wants help writing her memoirs. She is the owner of an estate that was once a TB sanatorium. The hospital is long abandoned and crumbling. Rumors abound that the neglected building carries the secret of a long-ago murder. When one of the cousins who cares for Nella is found dead in the old hospital, Jamie is drawn into its dark history. Instead of enjoying the spring awakening, Jamie finds herself piecing together the story of the estate and trying to solve two mysteries-one in the past and one in the present.

Mountain Rails of Old, third book in the Family History Mystery Series.Digger's mountain hides some aspects of its past. Rumor says it hosted a stop on the Underground Railroad, and it boasts remains of the first schoolhouse west of Cumberland. She never paid much attention to the abandoned cottage and its long-gone occupants until she accompanied her friend Marty, who wanted to photograph it for a potential news story. Everything changed when Uncle Benjamin made a huge discovery nearby. What really happened to Samantha and her ten-year old daughter fifteen years ago? If it hadn't been for a growling raccoon, Digger might not have tried to find out.Her friend Holly doesn't like the ancestors Digger found for her, and Marty thinks she's distanced herself rather than level with him about how she feels. She doesn't realize that her search for the waystation for escaping slaves will cross paths with efforts to bring Samantha home. And that path doesn't lead to a safe haven.Join Digger, Marty, and Uncle Benjamin as they sometimes operate at cross-purposes to solve old mysteries and unlock the mountain's secrets. Western Maryland at its elusive best.

Innocent until her last breath...

A perfect family with a rotten core.

The past never stays buried for long...

We all have a price to pay.

She thought she could trust him...

A deadly obsession...

After losing her job as an investigative reporter for The Phoenix Gazette, Kat Lawson has a new gig. The FBI has asked her to work undercover as a reporter for Journey International to cover Munich, Germany's festive holiday scene-an excuse to get close to Hans von Hausmann, a very charismatic and popular museum curator suspected of hiding a cache of stolen masterpieces believed to be part of the World's Largest Art Heist. The job comes with lots of perks: airfare, travel expenses, the opportunity to see the world...and for a seasoned reporter like Kat, nothing she can't handle. But, when a trusted source is found dead, Kat realizes the tables have been turned. Armed with evidence that will expose a cache of artwork stolen from museums and the homes of wealthy Jews during the 2nd World War, Kat must find a way to avoid being caught by the German Polizie, who have enough evidence to charge her with murder, and those who want her dead to keep their hidden treasures forever secret. The hunter has become the hunted; now, Kat has a target on her back.

On the night of a tragic fire at an orphanage in Canada that takes the lives of three boys, the orphanage director, Father Robert Porter, is found passed out in an alcoholic haze. Although he isn't blamed for the fire, Father Robert is recalled to his monastic order's motherhouse in Rome where he faces the prospect of being defrocked. Just weeks after he arrives in Rome, Father Robert is found stabbed to death in one of the city's largest piazzas. Christopher Worthy and Father Nicholas Fortis are charged with finding the killer and determining what might connect the fire and the murder. From CCTV, Worthy and Nick learn that Father Robert visited the piazza several times prior to his death. Noting also that Father Robert was followed by a group of Bosnian boys, Worthy and Nick wonder if the teenage refugees know something about the murder. Hoping to attract the boys' attention, Nick sits on the same bench where Father Robert was murdered. But the plan works too well. Nick is abducted and is held captive by the men who now control his fate. That is, unless Worthy can rescue his friend.