Résultats pour "Just" dans Fiction criminelle

La découverte d'une vieille photo bouleverse à jamais l'existence tranquille d'une mère de famille. Et si votre vie n'était qu'une vaste imposture ? Si l'homme que vous avez épousé dix ans auparavant n'était pas celui que vous croyiez ? Si tout votre univers s'effondrait brutalement ? Pour Grace Lawson, il aura suffi d'un seul regard sur une vieille photo prise vingt ans plus tôt pour que tout s'écroule. Ses souvenirs, son mariage, ses amis : tout n'était qu'un tissu de mensonges.

Cela fait longtemps que Sharlah, 13 ans, vit séparée de son frère Telly, depuis le jour fatal où, pour la protéger, il a tué leur père. Sa famille d'accueil, Pierce Quincy un ex-profiler du FBI et sa femme Rainie, ont su lui redonner confiance dans un cadre sécurisant et aimant.

“Twisty and complex, with unexpected turns…and characters you really root for.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE HEART-STOPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR GILLIAN MCALLISTER How do you choose between right or wrong, family or justice when the crime is so close to home . . . OLIVIA: 22 years old. No history of running away. Last seen on CCTV, entering a...

When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl's father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her mother, nothing can be done. Five months later, Hadiyyah is...

In the simpler times of 1971, Inspector Philip Steele, recently transferred to Fredericton, takes a well-deserved holiday visiting his beloved, elderly godmother in her quaint village nestled in the gently-rolling Appalachians of Atlantic Canada. But when a bank robbery and the murder of a teenage boy initiate a string of even more shocking events which wreak panic in the quiet community, Phil must return to long days of investigation with his oft-misquoting, black sergeant Zareb Woodbridge, who struggles with questioning some of the more racist locals.

Man. Lion. Warrior. Enigmatic superhero Lionheart was always cut from a different cloth than his teammates on Just Cause, so when he learns his old kung fu teacher, Master Chou, is dying, he doesn't hesitate to travel halfway around the world to pay his final respects to the man who saved his...

When an awkward preacher hires Gavin English to find out if a woman is being unfaithful to her husband, the private detective has no way of knowing about the man’s sinister past. A little digging leads Gavin to a happy couple with an open marriage, and points him back to his new client — a stalker with unknown motives. Pastor Timothy Ford has skeletons in his closet, and a Voice in his head, reminding him of the hell that awaits if he doesn’t finish his mission. God has laid sinners in his path, and suffering and death are their only chance at Salvation.

Seduction. Mind control. Murder. These are the weapons that have made Brenda Nevins one of the most wanted - and feared - criminals in the world. Now the notorious serial killer has escaped from prison and is plotting her revenge. Using innocent young women as bait, she will lure her unsuspecting victims into her trap. This time, sheriff's detective Kendall Stark and forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman won't be able to stop her. The killing will be filmed. The feed will be live. And the blood will be streaming....

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK IN THE BELOVED BESTSELLING SERIES. A high-end weekend cookery course at a beautifully restored Cornish manor promises fine dining, an exclusive guest list and the food event of the year. Instead, it ends in murder. When the body of Russell Keene is discovered locked inside a...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This riveting audiobook features a multi-cast narration read by Brittany Pressley and Gary Tiedemann. “Grabs you on the first page and doesn’t let go until you reach the end.” —Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me A...

Survival isn't always fight or flight. When tragedy strikes, Erin races to the hospital to be by her brother's side—but never makes it. A flat tire on a lonely road. A stranger with a kind smile. A car ride straight into a nightmare. She awakens in a child's bedroom. Pink walls, glittery...

'Sharp, suspenseful, and utterly compelling - Remi Kone is a crime writer to watch' Karin Slaughter London during a blistering heatwave. A man wakes in the middle of the night, hearing noises from downstairs. He assumes it's a burglar - nothing prepares him for what he finds. Across the city, DI...

Aggie Miller is barely holding her life together…single, pregnant, and desperate to keep her temp maid job at the Perrigo estate. She can’t afford any mistakes. But when she stumbles onto a brutal murder, her world shatters. And Ronan Perrigo, the dangerously smooth-talking enforcer, catches her in the act. Now, she’s trapped. Not in a cell, but in his world. Ronan isn’t just keeping her close to protect the Perrigo Family’s secrets…he’s keeping her close for himself.

New Year's Day - and through the misty streets of Victorian Edinburgh, an elegant female figure walks the cobblestones with a certain vengeful purpose. Jean Brash, the mistress of the Just Land, brings her cool intelligence to solving a murder, a murder that took place in her own bawdy house (the best in Edinburgh and her pride and joy). A prominent judge, strangled and left dangling, could bring her whole life to ruin, and she didn't haul herself off the streets, up through low, dirty houses of pleasure and violent vicious men, to let that come to pass.

Following the sudden disappearance of his wife, a police investigation soon starts to focus on eminent surgeon Leonard Martineau. Were they the devoted couple that they appeared to his colleagues? Or was one of her friends right to suggest that she was afraid of him? Is the next-door neighbour imagining things when she reports having seen him digging a grave in his back garden? Is her sister’s antipathy towards Leonard justified? Or is she just resentful and jealous of her sister’s marriage?

Steve Richardson is not a celebrity, a politician, or a man looking for trouble. He is a husband, a father, and a middle-aged IT worker trying to hold together an ordinary life. Then a single moment is ripped from context, pushed online, and turned into a spectacle. In days, Steve loses his job, his reputation, and the fragile stability of the life he built. Strangers decide who he is. Former coworkers add fuel. The internet does what it does best: it erases the person and preserves the accusation.

Tiana Carter has just started college and is determined to make the most of it. She’s thrilled to be posting videos about dorm-room cooking and campus fashion for a small but loyal band of followers. When she dips into the online dating pool, her first swipe right raises a huge red flag. Tiana’s polite rejection is met with scorn, and now a group of self-proclaimed “high-value men” are hell-bent on ruining her life.

Fast, sharp, and tinged with irony, Just a Bit Too Fast is a classic slice of late-1920s pulp crime fiction from Hal Moore—where bluff, disguise, and nerve matter more than careful planning.

Riley Wolfe is a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables. In this series launch, Riley aims for an extraordinary target in a heist that will make history. Riley will try to steal the Crown Jewels of Iran.