Détective désabusé, Simon Rose vit chez sa mère, consulte régulièrement son psy et conduit une Coccinelle capricieuse, quoique décapotable, baptisée Béatrice. Sept romans racontent ses exploits, dont l’inquiétante Autopsie d’un biographe (Zulma) et le diabolique Tueur du cinq du mois (Gallimard, Série Noire).
On a fall morning in the Pacific Northwest, in a coffee shop with four police officers as customers, a burst of gunfire announced a shocking ambush that devastated the Puget Sound and swept up everyone from judges in Tacoma to prison officials in Arkansas to candidates for president of the United States. The story of that morning's violence spans the decades and ripples across state lines. It is a story of our nation's racial divide; of southern prison farms and an act of grace; of festering hate and missed opportunities to stop a man going mad. For its coverage of the shootings and the manhunt that followed, the Seattle Times won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. Now the newspaper's staff goes deeper, telling the story of a charismatic felon, a minister with his eyes on the White House, and what can lie on the other side of mercy. So often, when someone does something shocking, people want to know: What was he thinking? What was Timothy McVeigh thinking? What about those kids at Columbine? In western Washington, in the fall of 2009, Maurice Clemmons planned to do something shocking. And he left no doubt what he was thinking. The Other Side of Mercy draws upon a stunning...
Explore the secrets of America's past with the official companion to PBS's History Detectives Could a Civil War POW have fashioned a working camera from a tin can, a spyglass lens, and a pine plank? What can an ancient and battered banjo reveal about America's musical and segregated past? How could a man save his own life by proving that he had forged a painting? These are just a few of the intriguing and puzzling questions posed to super sleuths Wes Cowan, Elyse Luray, Gwendolyn Wright, and Tukufu Zuberi in this fascinating book. The perfect companion to the hit public television series, including an episode guide, this book is filled with intriguing case files, pictures, how-to's, and checklists that bring mysteries to life and give you the practical advice and tips you need to solve your own historical puzzles. From genealogical research to patent and property searches to DNA analysis and more, it gives you the lowdown on all of the high-tech tools that can help get to the bottom of a case. Packed with fun and useful information for the whole family, it will deepen your appreciation for the way in which seemingly ordinary objects can connect you to important people and events...
Who can she trust? Fleur Fenwick, a firebinder, is on the run. After her friend is killed, she unearths a secret that can spell life or death for all firebinders, including her brother. When the police get involved, the detective assigned to protect her not only sends her heart racing, but also seems to know the reason why there are forces who want firebinders dead. Cynn Cruor warrior Ewan Blair returns to the city to fulfill a promise he made to a woman-child. While on patrol with fellow Cynn Cruor Blake Strachan, he encounters a beautiful woman who not only holds her own in a fight with the Scatha Cruor but also sets his blood afire with a desire he never thought possible. Dead bodies start piling up, illuminated manuscripts with hidden clues, and Fleur’s brother goes missing. It’s a race against time to get firebinders to safety. Through it all, the sensual conflagration between Fleur and Ewan is undeniable. So is the threat to them both. ***CONTENT WARNING: This story contains adult language and situations intended for audiences 18+ ONLY***
Ce livre s'attache à mettre en lumière l'extraordinaire floraison d'oeuvres et d'auteurs de fiction policière belge, durant l'Occupation et dans l'immédiat après-guerre. Par un mélange de résumés narratifs, d'analyses et de rappels historiques, l'auteur nous fait découvrir une des périodes les plus fécondes de la littérature de genre. Cette relecture critique et passionnée d'une centaine d'oeuvres-clés, étonnamment vivantes, renouvelle la vision qu'on peut avoir de cette époque à demi effacée. Elle donne au livre tout entier sa couleur poétique d'exploration d'un monde perdu. On y croise Stanislas André-Steeman, Georges Simenon, Jean Ray, Thomas Owen, Louis-Thomas Jurdant, Max Servais ou encore André-Paul Duchâteau. Le Policier fantôme a paru pour la première fois en 1984. La présente édition a été largement revue et augmentée. Un chapitre nouveau, consacré aux tendances actuelles du roman policier contemporain, constitue un miroir qui montre à la fois la spécificité du roman classique des années quarante et la vitalité actuelle du genre. Luc Dellisse est romancier, essayiste et poète. Il a publié une vingtaine de livres.
Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations From Audubon’s still-life watercolors to Muybridge’s trip-wire locomotion studies, from Melville’s epic chases to Poe’s detective hunts, the nineteenth century witnessed a surge of artistic, literary, and scientific treatments that sought to “capture” the truth of animals at the historical moment when animals were receding from everyday view. In Capture, Antoine Traisnel reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century U.S. cultural canon. Capture offers a critical genealogy of the dominant representation of animals as elusive, precarious, and endangered that came to circulate widely in the nineteenth century. Traisnel argues that “capture” is deeply continuous with the projects of white settler colonialism and the biocapitalist management of nonhuman and human populations, demonstrating that the desire to capture animals in representation responded to and normalized the systemic disappearance of animals effected by unprecedented changes in the land, the rise of mass...
El amor y el suspense mantendrán en vilo a los lectores de esta novela hasta la última página... ¡No os la perdáis! ¿Huirá Claudia Monfort de la mansión de la poderosa familia Villegas? ¿O se quedará para descubrir la verdad que le esconden? Cuatro de la madrugada. Un lujoso todoterreno se estrella contra un árbol en una carretera solitaria de la Sierra de Madrid. Dentro aparece una mujer de la que se desconoce la identidad. Pronto saltan las alarmas. La mujer es Claudia Monfort, esposa del conde de Villegas y famosa en la prensa rosa. Minutos después el hospital está lleno de paparazzis. La aristócrata tiene un traumatismo cráneo-encefálico y padece amnesia. Lo único que recuerda es el momento justo del accidente: era de noche, llovía copiosamente y estaba llamando por el móvil. Sin saber por qué perdió el control del coche y se salió de la carretera. Apenas se acuerda de nada más. Y su móvil ha desaparecido. La poderosa familia Villegas logra esconder a la joven en su mansión de La Finca, lejos de miradas indiscretas. Allí, prácticamente incomunicada, Claudia solo recibe las visitas del médico. Su marido, Raúl, no va a verla. Se siente sola, el...
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