Résultats pour "Silence" dans Policier

À GLACER LES SANGS. Grand Londres, hiver 2019. Anna Kaczor a été assassinée à coups de tournevis dans un pub, et tout le monde s'en fout. Mais lorsque l'on découvre que la jeune femme a été impliquée dans un scandale politico-sexuel qui a éclaboussé l'un des plus hauts pairs du Royaume, la police et les médias s'emparent de l'affaire. Lynn Dunsday, Web-reporter à la plume unique et aux méthodes expéditives, cherche elle aussi à remonter la piste de ce crime, avec, pour seul indice, le Polaroid sinistre de deux ados disparus.

France. Il y a 25 ans. Le petit Thomas, 11 ans, disparaît lors d'une sortie en forêt. Londres. De nos jours. Une fillette, Maggie, est enlevée à son tour. Sur le pas de sa porte, une fleur de lotus blanche est retrouvée, et Meredith Williams, profiler de renommée, en est certaine : il s'agit bien là de la signature de L'Ogre, un psychopathe réputé pour des crimes sacrificiels. Pour retrouver la petite Maggie à temps, Meredith va devoir replonger dans un passé qu'elle avait préféré effacer, et affronter le monstre incontrôlable qu'elle n'a jamais réussi à intercepter.

A Clarice Starling, joven y ambiciosa estudiante de la academia del FBI, le encomiendan que entreviste a Hannibal Lecter, brillante psiquiatra y despiadado asesino, para conseguir su colaboración en la resolución de un caso de asesinatos en serie. El asombroso conocimiento de Lecter del comportamiento humano y su poderosa personalidad cautivarán de inmediato a Clarice, quien, incapaz de dominarse, establecerá con él una ambigua, inquietante y peligrosa relación.

C'est une maison dans laquelle les femmes ne se sont jamais senties bien, les familles n'y sont jamais restées longtemps. Une médium dit même y avoir perçu une sensation d'étouffement. Pendant des travaux de modernisation, le mur de la cave s'écroule et un corps apparaît. Konrad enquête et met au jour des mystères anciens. Dans le même temps il presse la police d'élucider le meurtre de son père mais il a oublié qu'à l'époque, l'enfant qu'il était avait menti, et il se retrouve soupçonné.

Private investigator Thomas Austin is enjoying a relaxing holiday vacation in picturesque Port Townsend, Washington, accompanied by an intriguing new friend. But his tranquility is shattered when the nearby community of Mystery Bay is rocked by the death of a revered musician at an infamous counterculture festival: The Rabbit Hole.

Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. With masterful plotting and unnerving psychological insight, Thomas Perry delivers another mesmerizing thrill ride.

Lacey Doyle, 39 ans et fraîchement divorcée, a opéré un changement drastique : elle a délaissé sa vie trépidante à New York et s’est installée dans la pittoresque ville en bord de mer de Wilfordshire. Avec Halloween approchant à grands pas, Lacey a de la chance lorsque quelqu’un lui donne un livre rare et ancien qui sera parfait pour sa prochaine vente aux enchères effrayante. Mais après la vente du livre à un acheteur, le mystérieux livre disparait avant qu’elle ne puisse le livrer.

When silence falls, who will hear their cries? The body of a young girl is found dumped on the roadside on the outskirts of Edinburgh. When pathologists examine the remains, they make a gruesome discovery: the outline of a doll carved into the victim’s skin. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are struggling to find leads in the case until a doll made of skin is found nestled beside an abandoned baby. After another young woman is found butchered, Luc and Ava realise the babydoll killer is playing a horrifying game. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes again.

As Autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenagers, the son of the island's mayor and that of a powerful businessman, are brutally murdered. Their bodies are left deep in the forest, dressed in white tunics with crowns of candles atop their heads, like offerings to Saint Lucia. Maïa Rehn has fled Paris for Lidingö, where her husband has grown up, trying to come to terms with the death of their only daughter in a car accident...

As a police team is called in to investigate a woman's suicide at the Holmsheiði prison outside Reykjavik, to detective Guðgeir Fransson it looks like a tragic but straightforward case. It's only afterwards that the pieces begin to fall into place and he takes a deeper interest in Kristin Kjarr's troubled background, and why she had found herself in prison.

"You’ll want to race through The Silence of the White City, but it’s best to slow down and savor the full effect of the volatile, intoxicating universe Sáenz has created. This is the first novel of the White City trilogy to be translated into English—the second can’t come fast enough...

2012. À la fin de l'émission où il est invité pour son livre sur la Tuerie du Caire, un attentat qui a fait quarante victimes dont son père en 1954, Stanislas Kervyn reçoit un coup de téléphone qui bouleverse tout ce qu'il croyait savoir. 1948. Nathan Katz, un jeune Juif rescapé des camps, arrive à New York pour essayer de reconstruire sa vie. Il est rapidement repéré par le Chat, une organisation prête à exploiter sa colère et sa haine. Quel secret unit les destins de ces deux hommes que tout semble séparer ?

Welcome to Thimbleberry-on-Wye, where the tea is hot, the gossip is hotter—and murder has tangled itself into the yarn display. Shy shopkeeper Frida Moss prefers quiet days in her cosy yarn shop, surrounded by colourful skeins and her nosy corgi, Thistle. But when a body is discovered in her stall at the annual craft fair, Frida’s peaceful life unravels faster than a dropped stitch.

No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day, Roy asked his timid friend: “You ever killed anything?” From that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine - and too irresistible to stop.

Combining the emotional power and dual narrative style of Before We Were Yours with the nuanced, layered, and atmospheric mystery of The Dry, a powerful debut novel revolving around a shocking disappearance, two neighbor families, and shameful secrets from the past that refuse to stay buried...

Joey McCarthy is stabbed to death in a pub car park in a random act of violence. Shortly afterwards Charlotte Stone's terminally ill mother dies, and then, within weeks, two of her teenage friends commit suicide. With her home life disintegrating and both her father and brother racing towards self-destruction, Charlotte realises that her own personal nightmare may not be over yet. When DC Gary Goodhew finds the body of another suicide victim, he is forced to recall some deeply buried memories of an earlier death.

A dead teenage girl. A growing suspect list. A town full of liars. At 28, Detective Nell Brach is both the youngest and the first woman to make detective in her close-knit Tennessee community. Assigned her first case as lead investigator, she’s determined to prove herself and find out what happened to the 13-year-old “good girl” found in the woods. However, the deeper Nell and her new partner, Vaughn, dig, the more potential suspects they discover…including Nell’s lover, a local judge.

Staten Island, 1981. La bicicleta de Daniel Miller aparece abandonada en las inmediaciones de su casa. No hay rastro del pequeño. Treinta años después, en 2011, la periodista de investigación del Manhattan Press Miren Triggs sigue una pista que la conduce hasta el terrible hallazgo de un cadáver con los labios sellados.

A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist. In his home, investigators find pages of diatribes against law enforcement as well as ties to Mason’s fiancée, FBI special agent Ava McLane. The victim was her informant - and had strong reasons to be paranoid.

S is for silence: the silence of the lost, the silence of the grave, the silence of oblivion. Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues...