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Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
"Hazel 'Lucky' Strike--a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases--comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held prisoner and terrorized. Strike is convinced the voice is that of eighteen-year-old Cora Teague, who went missing more than three years earlier. Strike is also certain that the teenager's remains are gathering dust in Temperance Brennan's lab. Brennan has doubts about working with a self-styled...
2) Fatal voyage
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
"Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits....
4) 206 bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and case of a missing heiress from Montreal-- an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal, and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged her work in the lab.
5) Déjà dead
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
6) Cross bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an Orthodox jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
10) Monday mourning
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
11) The lake
Author
Publisher
Arachnide
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The latest from Governor General's Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad. In between the mountains and the sea, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, there's a village called Malabourg. The village is surrounded by all the usual features of the region: a river with wild salmon, a stretch of the national highway, and...
12) Ball park
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he's assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn't on the 'up and up'. Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway...
Author
Publisher
Rare Machines
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Too much sex in the city: a young woman goes into a self-destructive spiral after becoming obsessed with a downtown Montreal hipster. Reality, that speedy bitch, is catching up to me. In downtown Montreal, everyone is in a band or making a movie. Philomena Flynn and her best friend, Tania, are living fast and hard -- there is sex when and where you want it, as well as drugs of all kinds. Not enough work, but lots of parties. Cute boys or nice boys,...
Author
Series
Jewelle Joseph volume 1
Publisher
Baraka Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stylish and ambitious, Jewelle Joseph, JJ to her friends, has the perfect opportunity to make her move into senior management through the newly created sales and distribution spin-off company. It will mean a significant salary increase and equally important it will allow her to reign in and over her rival and fellow international sales executive, Chantal Mercier. But Chantal's got her eye on the VP of sales position too. The competition between these...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Paul Hansen is in prison. He's been in this prison on the outskirts of Montreal for a couple of years now, sharing a cell with a murderous Hells Angel who often reminds Paul that he could kill him at any moment. What did Paul do to end up here? And why does he jeopardize his life and release by refusing to show remorse? Before prison, there were his parents. There were his friends at the Excelsior, the luxury apartment complex where Paul worked as...
Author
Publisher
Libre Expression
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"C'est fou, vous me faites penser à mon grand-père... -- C'est parce que je suis ton grand-père, p'tit con ! -- Pachou ? Qu'est-ce que tu fais là ? » Après l'avoir aperçu dans un campement au journal télévisé, Henri est venu chercher son Gillou, amoché par la pandémie. En désespoir de cause, Gilles, qui a perdu travail, logement et repères, suit le vieil homme dans sa petite ferme des Cantons-de-l'Est. Le citadin et voyageur dans l'âme...
17) Leslie
Author
Publisher
Hurtubise
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"Août, Anse-au-griffon, Gaspésie. Depuis son arrivée bouleversante dans sa région natale, Leslie tente de se tenir au seul mince fil qui la rattache à la vie. Toujours aux prises avec son anorexie et ses troubles obsessifs compulsifs, elle erre, à la recherche d'une solution. Un mandat de taille pour celle qui avait déjà du mal à exister avant la sordide agression dont elle a été victime. Leslie, incapable de vivre avec ses parents, s'installe...
Author
Series
Place des Érables volume 1
Publisher
Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"Dans les années 1960, autour de la Place des Érables, des commerces comme le casse-croûte de madame Rita, la pharmacie de Valentin Lamoureux et la quincaillerie Picard sont emblématiques d'une vie de quartier typiquement montréalaise. Le commerce des Picard, quincaillers de père en fils, siège à la même adresse depuis toujours. L'aïeul, Joseph-Alfred, est un grand-père à l'érudition surprenante et souvent déconcertante tandis que son...
19) The bone code
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside...
20) Lady jail
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Quebec, 1994. Fraud artist Abigail, the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women, is struggling to adjust to the prison's communal quarters. Her fellow inmates only give out the bare bones of their crimes, and it's quite the roll call. Doi took a hatchet to her own daughter. Malka poisoned her husband. And that's just for starters. Abigail keeps her head down, does her best to make friends with the band of killers, tries to survive. But...
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