Résultats pour "James" dans Fiction criminelle

Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.

Jericho College is closed for the summer break. But professor Carla James is busy teaching a short course to a small group of archaeology enthusiasts. Keen to get involved with local history, the newcomers become fixated on the century-old grave of Meg Woodthorpe. Killed for being a witch. A single stone sits on the burial site supposedly to prevent her rising again. And excavations reveal she may have. Meg's body is no longer there. She has been replaced by a modern victim. With no one missing, Carla must work out who this is and where Meg has gone.

En janvier 1942, Los Angeles est encore sous le choc de l'attaque de Pearl Harbor. Les Américains d'origine japonaise sont massivement arrêtés tandis que des pluies torrentielles s'abattent sur la ville. Un corps est découvert dans Griffith Park à la faveur d'un glissement de terrain.

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination - in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, DC....

Narrated by acclaimed British actor Edward Petherbridge. On the eve of war, Sherlock Holmes is asked by the Prime Minister of England to recover a new British superweapon that has fallen into the wrong hands. But Lucy James, an actress and Holmes's recently discovered grown daughter, has inherited the family sleuthing skills and strong-willed nature. Despite her father's objections, she insists on helping him, although several horrific murders have been linked to the weapon's disappearance.

“LeeAnne James’s latest kidnapping thriller is a tragic exploration of evil borne of ignorance.” –Cam Torrens, award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn series When Sergeant Steve “Mac” MacIntosh interviews a young victim of kidnap and rape, he’s appalled. She came forward to say she’d been kidnapped by an older man wearing glasses. He held her captive in a damp and dark underground bunker for over a year and raped her daily. Even more disturbing, he appeared to think he was treating her well!

Writer Mark Endicott moves to a Dorset village, where he buys the small, almost derelict Corpse Path Cottage. It occurs to him that it would make the ideal setting for a murder. Before long, one of the village’s residents is mysteriously shot dead nearby. Mark’s life begins to unravel even as he helps the police solve the mystery. In the process he uncovers a tale of intrigue, bigamy, and blackmail.

James Ellroy's deep dive into the psyche of a serial killer who recounts his life in the shadows, a tale of American madness and obsession. "The scariest book I've ever read." —Jason Kellerman Even as a child, Martin Michael Plunkett was no ordinary boy. Extreme parental indifference marked...

From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby, writing as NATALIE KANE, comes an arranged marriage, age-gap, ex’s dad novel in her Kings of Vegas series, Blood King. Natasha Being a Bratva princess is not as glamorous as it sounds. Or glamorous at all. I’ve known since I was a child...

Deux suspects. Deux témoignages identiques. Un seul coupable. Une petite ville perdue en Australie. Un officier de police habitué à régler des petits problèmes de vie domestique et querelles de voisinage. Un jour de canicule débarque un homme, couvert de sang. Gabriel déclare avoir été séquestré dans une cabane par un serial killer. Le dénommé Heath a déjà tué 54 personnes. Gabriel est sa prochaine victime. Quand la chasse à l'homme commence, ce même jour de canicule, débarque un deuxième homme. Heath est couvert de sang.

The return of a Brighton girl turned movie star spells nothing but trouble for Detective Superintendent Roy Grace in the gripping crime novel Not Dead Yet, by award winning author Peter James. Read by Daniel Weyman (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) Gaia Lafayette has a movie to shoot...

Le décor: l'hôpital John Carpendar, imposant établissement d'époque victorienne abritant plusieurs services, dont une école d'infirmières. La première victime: une des élèves, tuée d'une manière particulièrement atroce. Les suspects: les infirmières, et, au premier chef, la directrice, la formidable Mary Taylor, et ses trois "secondes", mais aussi le grand patron, le docteur Courtney-Briggs, dont on découvre bientôt qu'il a eu une liaison avec l'une des victimes.

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child It's a race against time as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tries to stop a grieving mother from taking the law into her own hands . . . Read by Daniel Weyman (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) A university student is killed in a...

'Masterful . . . superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison' Publishers Weekly What should have been a simple pick-up turns into a day-long nightmare for Bad Sam Chapman. When an operational catastrophe puts a gun in the hands of a...

Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman. It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the...

Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result, and should be feeling...

Rumors have swirled around Jake Cashen his whole life. Is he crazy like his father? Is it true they booted him out of the F.B.I. right after he cracked a career-making RICO case? Was he dirty? Only Jake knows, and he’s not telling. He came back to his tiny hometown at the foot of Ohio’s Blackhand Hills to serve as a deputy sheriff. He hopes to punch a clock and keep his head down until retirement. It was a solid plan—until someone put a bullet in the head of a revered county judge.

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.

La sixième enquête d'Adam Dalgliesh Un village des Fens, au sud-est de l'Angleterre. Des marécages, de la pluie, la découverte du cadavre d'une femme... Le lendemain, le Pr Lorrimer, responsable du service de biologie d'un laboratoire de médecine légale, est trouvé assassiné dans son bureau, toutes portes fermées. Au fil d'une enquête extrêmement minutieuse parmi le personnel médical, le commandant Dalgliesh va démêler l'écheveau des passions et des rancœurs et percer à jour des mystères où sexe et superstition se mêlent, bien loin de la rationalité scientifique.

Brought to you by Penguin. The brilliant, crime-solving Professor Dylan Reinhart returns in the third thrilling instalment of James Patterson's Instinct series __________________________________ The stakes are sky-high for Dr Dylan Reinhart. When a student in Reinhart's psychology class...