MAPUCHE (FEREY CARYL)
Rubén, fils du célèbre poète Calderón assassiné dans les geôles de la dictature argentine, est un rescapé de lenfer. Trente ans plus tard, il se consacre à la recherche des disparus du régime de Videla. Quand sa route croise celle de Jana, une jeune sculptrice mapuche qui lui demande denquêter sur le meurtre de son amie Luz, la douleur et la colère les réunissent. Mais en Argentine, hier comme aujourdhui, il n'est jamais bon de poser trop de questions, les bourreaux et la mort rôdent toujours...
MILLÉNIUM, TOME 2 : LA FILLE QUI RÊVAIT D’UN BIDON D’ESSENCE ET D’UNE ALLUMETTE: FILLE QUI REVAIT D’UN BIDON D’ESSENCE ET D’UNE ALLUMETTE V. 2 (LARSSON, STIEG)
Tandis que Lisbeth Salander coule des journées supposées tranquilles aux Caraïbes, Mikael Blomkvist, réhabilité, victorieux, est prêt à lancer un numéro spécial de Millénium sur un thème brûlant pour des gens haut placés : une sombrehistoire de prostituées exportées des pays de l'Est. Mikael aimerait surtout revoir Lisbeth. Il la retrouve sur son chemin, mais pas vraiment comme prévu : un soir, dans une rue de Stockholm, il la voit échapper de peu à une agression manifestement très planifiée. Enquêter sur des sujets qui fâchent mafieux et politiciens n'est pas ce qu'on souhaite à de jeunes journalistes amoureux de la vie. Deux meurtres se succèdent, les victimesenquêtaient pour Millénium. Pire que tout, la police et les médias vont bientôt traquer Lisbeth, coupable toute désignée et qu'on a vite fait de qualifier de tueuse en série au passé psychologique lourdement chargé. Mais qui était cette gamine attachée sur un lit, exposée aux caprices d'un maniaque et qui survivait en rêvant d'un bidon d'essence et d'une allumette ? S'agissait-il d'une des filles des pays de l'Est, y a-t-il une hypothèse plus compliquée encore ? C'est dans cet univers à cent à l'heure que nous embarque Stieg Larsson qui signe avec ce deuxième volume de la trilogie Millénium un thriller au rythme affolant.
RESIDENT EVIL: INFRAMUNDO (PERRY, S. D.)
Adéntrate en Racoon City acompañado de algunos de los personajes más emblemáticos de la saga: Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, Rebbeca Chambers y otros miembros de los STARS. Todos ellos deberán unir sus fuerzas y hacer frente a la misteriosa corporación Umbrella, creadora de monstruosos asesinos biológicos
ASESINO FANTASMA (MATO , JUAN CARLOS)
NEVER TOO OLD (OERTEL-KIRSCHNER, MARY)
In Never Too Old, Blanche Harriman investigates the unexpected death of an old friend she was to meet for breakfast in their posh Santa Fe retirement home.? Something about the suddenness of the death nags at her.? After all, they?d just been planning a trip to Cozumel for a sky-diving adventure.? Blanche is determined to learn more about what happened and in the process encounters a number of dubious characters ? a greedy stockbroker nephew, a smarmy minister fond of collecting ?stray souls and stray bank accounts,? a scheming relative of her housekeeper, and a couple of ambition-driven staff members.? She enlists the help of other feisty seniors, even one who is wheelchair-bound.? Blanche also flirts with a retired banker who she feels has a ?certain ?lan? despite his paunch and coke-bottle glasses.? Throughout the twists and turns of this cozy mystery, Blanche and her cohorts prove you?re? ?never too old? to take on a challenge!
MURDER ME FOR NICKELS ; BENNY MUSCLES IN (RABE, PETER;WESTLAKE, DONALD E.)
MURDER ME FOR NICKELS ? Walter Lippit makes music all over town. He owns the juke boxes that play the tunes that keeps the bars and the diners hopping. Jack St. Louis works for Lippit, smoothing the customers and keeping the nickels coming. But then along comes Benotti and the Chicago syndicate to louse up the operation. It's everything Jack can do to stay one step ahead. One step ahead of Benotti's gang, Lippet--and Lippit's willing wife Patty, who wants to be a singer and is convinced that Jack can make that happen too. And maybe he can. It's all in a week's work. ? ? BENNY MUSCLES IN ? Benny Tapkow has worked as crime boss Pendleton's chauffeur for seven years, but he's itching to get ahead. He feels like he deserves a piece of the action, but Pendleton won't budge. So Benny strikes a deal with Big Al Alverato to kidnap Pendleton's daughter Pat to get him in with the rival gang. But the snatch doesn't come off as planned, and now Benny is stuck with Pat, a hellion with a temper and plenty of mood swings. Pendleton's men are after him and he has to dope her just to keep her in line. The last thing h
FOUR SHOTS NEAT (MARKS, REBECCA)
A year after retiring from the NYPD as a decorated detective, and helping to solve two grisly murders in her home town on Long Island's north fork, Dana Cohen's life has settled down. She is trying to decide what she wants to do, now that her Alzheimer's-stricken father will be in the Island Breeze Nursing Home for the rest of his life. But when old ladies at the nursing home start dying suddenly, Dana is called into service once again to help solve the murders. Complicating the issue is the new male nurse, Alex, to whom Dana is strongly attracted. As their relationship heats up so do Dana's suspicions that her new lover may be the killer.
TRUTH ALWAYS KILLS (OLLERMAN, RICK;BOULDEN, BEN;GORMAN, ED)
Jeff Prentiss?s life is a mess. As a homicide detective working in St. Petersburg, he knows he?s made too many mistakes and made too many enemies. When his wife?s ex-husband, Roy Lee Evans, is released from prison and threatens his family, Jeff does what he must to keep them safe. Now fighting for his career, his wife Lori believes he knows more about Evans? whereabouts than he?s willing to say. With his family life strained to the breaking point, a ?celebrity? thief is found dead, and Jeff and his new partner find themselves roasting in the media spotlight. There?s a disc that ties the dead man to a political bigshot in Tampa, but the link doesn?t make any sense. Everything keeps coming back to Lori?s missing ex, even as the case points to an organized crime operation. Jeff compounds old mistakes with new ones and as the investigation continues, he begins a slow descent into his own darkened version of Hell. Should he share everything with his partner, be honest with Lori? Only she?s disappeared and Jeff is a man in search of the truth, but he knows that if he finds it, it just might kill them all.
DEATH’S SWEET SONG ; WHOM GODS DESTROY (ADAMS, CLIFTON;GALLAGHER, CULLEN)
DEATH?S SWEET SONG ? What is it about the petite blonde? When Paula Sheldon and her husband Karl pull into Joe Hooper?s rundown gas pump motel outside Creston, Hooper can?t take his eyes off her. And he sure can?t figure why a classy guy like Sheldon would check into his dump of a place. But that night he gets an earful when he overhears the Sheldons discussing a robbery with a local ex-con. Hooper is desperate to get away from Creston, even more desperate to spend time with Sheldon?s wife. He takes a chance and convinces the Sheldons that he?d make a better partner. And everything goes smoothly until the old watchman tries to play hero. It?s his own damn fault that Hooper has to shoot him. Paula likes a man who knows how to take charge, and she likes what she sees in Hooper. It?s enough to make a guy go a little crazy--crazy enough to do anything? ? WHOM GODS DESTROY ? Roy Foley has hated Lola ever since she laughed at him in high school--the poor kid from across the Oklahoma tracks who was filled with ambition and dared to declare his love. Now he?s back in town with some scores to settle. By chance
RAPTURE ALLEY ; WINTER GIRL ; STRICTLY FOR THE BOYS (WHITTINGTON, HARRY;WILSON, DAVID LAURENCE)
RAPTURE ALLEY ? No one needs Lora. Ken claims to love her, but he is married to Lora's wheelchair-ridden sister, Chris, and he doesn't really need her. And all Lora wants is to be needed. Lora feels alone, defeated by herself. Then Arty comes along. He helps her fill this hole in her heart with something better than love?escape. Through him she meets Boyd, the nightclub singer, with his own brand of addicting salvation. Soon drugs become Lora's cushion against a hurtful world. They allow her to float above her problems. But they can't keep the pain away forever. And when Lora's own needs cause her world to come crashing down around her, all the drugs in the world can't save her. ? ? WINTER GIRL ? ?An hour after I met Lu Ann again that winter, I knew I was headed for deep, serious trouble. Only I had no idea how deep, how serious...? When Calder Fenton first saw Lu Ann that day at her rich daddy?s hunting field, he couldn?t take his eyes off her. He?d seen her every year growing up, but she?d never looked like this before. Soon, he?s sitting in her jeep, being taunted by her, trying to figure her out.
SIX WERE PRESENT (PUNSHON, E.R.)
?You?re the murder man, aren?t you?? Mrs. James demanded. ?Well, that?s not exactly how I describe myself,? Bobby answered. Bobby Owen and his wife Olive are on holiday, enjoying a motor tour of England, when they visit Bobby?s old ancestral home and his cousin Myra. An eerie air hangs over the household, where Teddy Peel, a psychic medium of dubious repute, has become a fixture. Myra?s husband himself is a specialist in African folklore, the owner of a genuine witch doctor?s bag. What?s inside the bag, and how that connects to the promise of riches, whispered threats and very real murder, forms another absorbing puzzler for Bobby. Six Were Present (1956) is the thirty-fifth and final novel in the Bobby Owen Mystery series, here presented with a new introduction and additional notes. This new edition also features the script of the rare radio play Death on the Up-Lift (1941), starring Bobby Owen, here published for the first time. ?What is distinction? ? in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.?--Dorothy L. Sayers
THE ACCIDENTAL GANGSTER (KEOGH, DAVID J)
Cash, cars, bars and stars: Generation ?Del Boy? has come to town. Seeds planted by the eight Fewtrell brothers back in the poverty-stricken days of the 1960s have finally grown into towering money trees and Eddie Fewtrell has the greenest fingers of them all. Twenty years of underworld in-fighting are finally over, and the road to riches lies before him. All he has to do is walk the straight and narrow, but the road is littered with debris from his past. Mistakes, betrayal and revenge, lay like man traps along the road to success ready to snap their metal jaws shut and crush his dreams for the future. The 1980s; greed is good, racial tensions high and violent, football hooliganism fills the TV screens of Great Britain. A time when Eddie Fewtrell attempts to leave his gangster past behind him and finally flourish in to the businessman he always knew he should be. Declaring himself King of Clubs, his crown sits precariously on his head, will this be the decade it finally falls?
HERO’S LUST ; THE MAN I KILLED ; HOUSE OF EVIL (JAEDIKER, KERMIT;WALKER, SHEL;LIPMAN, CLAYRE & MICHEL)
HERO?S LUST ? Everyone in Crescent City knows that Mayor Gowan controls the town, most of all Red Norton. Red?s an ace reporter, sure, but he?s living in the mayor?s side pocket. What the Mayor wants, he gets. And right now he wants Red to write up his new Medical Center. The Mayor needs a pitch, and finds it in tubercular Ann Porter, who is scheduled for an upcoming operation. Her story sells a lot of papers, and puts a face to the Mayor?s pet project. Red didn?t figure on falling in love with the kid, but now he?s involved. And with the Mayor making some new demands, Red is about to find out just how rotten the town really is?the hard way.? ? THE MAN I KILLED ? When Lew Ross was young, he got into a fight and killed a man, then fled the scene. Haunted by this event throughout his life, he finds himself back in that same town again, at the same club where it all happened. Except that now the place is a nightclub. And this is where he meets Kitty, one of the hostesses, and her slick boss, Marty Evans, who has a proposition for Ross?pick up a delivery from a local rival, and join his crew. Evans even lo
THE POLO GROUND MYSTERY (FORSYTHE, ROBIN)
Mr Sutton Armadale, the financier, was shot dead on the private polo ground of his palatial home. Before expiring in his gamekeeper?s arms, he muttered the one word ?murder?. Among the suspects are Armadale?s second wife; a drunken, loud-mouthed stranger in the neighbourhood; and an irresistibly attractive ballerina. The amiable and eccentric Algernon Vereker finds the case as befuddling as a crack on the head from a polo mallet. Two witnesses were certain they heard two shots fired, yet only one spent cartridge case was found on the ground by the dead man?s body. What is the ?Sutton Stakes? connection? and is a ?Bombay Head? part of the solution? The Polo Ground Mystery (1932) is a classic country house whodunit, with a sporting equestrian theme. The second of the Algernon Vereker mysteries, this new edition is the first published in over 70 years. It features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. ?A first-rate thriller ? keeping you dancing with suspense to the end.? Daily Herald
DEAD WRONG (GRACE, TAMMY L)
A murdered business partner. A hundred million dollars. A client who claims his innocence. Coop?s client is a renowned scientist in the pharmaceutical industry. The pending charge is the murder of his business partner, and a hundred million dollars provides the motive. As an arrest looms, the desperate client seeks Coop?s help to uncover the real murderer. All evidence points to the mild-mannered scientist. He asserts his innocence and begs Coop to uncover the clues the police overlooked. Coop and Annabelle, his faithful sidekick, work around the clock to sift through the evidence in search of anything to clear their client. As always, Coop?s loyal golden retriever, Gus, along with the sometimes meddling, but well-meaning Aunt Camille, support the investigative efforts. Connections are exposed, and suspects interrogated, but all the promising leads evaporate. Their determination wanes when they discover additional persuasive evidence against their client, causing Coop to doubt his instincts. With increased persistence, they unearth a damaging secret. A vital piece of evidence provides the thread that unrav