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Ainsi parlent les morts
Val McDermid
- Flammarion
- Litterature Etrangere Flammarion
- 16 Mars 2022
- 9782080264770
Lorsqu'un promoteur immobilier exhume les restes de jeunes filles sur le site d'un couvent, la Brigade régionale des enquêtes prioritaires se lance à la recherche des anciennes pensionnaires. Leurs témoignages sur l'extrême sévérité des nonnes à l'époque sont accablants, mais une autre série de corps a priori sans lien avec les précédents est bientôt découverte et oblige à reprendre toute l'affaire à zéro. Pour résoudre ce cold case hors norme, il va falloir «faire parler les morts», dont le nombre affolant fait planer la menace d'un tueur en série. Mission d'autant plus difficile pour Paula McIntyre et le reste de l'équipe qu'ils doivent maintenant compter sans Carol Jordan, exclue de la police, et sans Tony Hill, en prison. Les deux anciens acolytes, plus que jamais isolés et fragilisés, oeuvrent désormais dans l'ombre et pourraient bien fournir la clef de cette enquête.
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A tour-de-force . . . The Queen of Crime has delivered another masterpiece>
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Une série de suicides attire l'attention du profiler Tony Hill : les défuntes sont toutes des femmes qui ont revendiqué leur engagement féministe sur Internet et ont été victimes de cyberharcèlement. Mais ces suicides en sont-ils vraiment ? Et que signifient ces livres de Sylvia Plath et de Virginia Woolf retrouvés à leurs côtés ?L'enquête, vertigineuse, amène Tony à refaire équipe avec Carol Jordan, encore fragilisée par ses propres démons. Avec l'aide d'une hackeuse de génie, ils se lancent à la poursuite d'un tueur obsessionnel qui n'a plus rien à perdre.Val McDermid reforme son duo de choc et signe un polar à vous glacer le sang, aux enjeux plus contemporains que jamais.
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Dans les coulisses de la police scientifique.Médecine légale, identité judiciaire, entomologie, toxicologie, anthropologie judiciaire, profilage, forensique numérique... Depuis deux cents ans, les sciences criminelles n'ont cessé de se développer et de se perfectionner.Pour la première fois, la célèbre romancière Val McDermid nous raconte avec brio les grandes affaires criminelles qui ont été résolues grâce aux «experts» d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, et comment, grâce à la science, les enquêteurs arrivent à retrouver sur une scène de crime des traces qui peuvent devenir des indices, et parfois des preuves.
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Des ouvriers découvrent les restes d'un cadavre au sommet d'un immeuble du centre historique d'Édimbourg. À qui appartient ce squelette, et comment est-il arrivé jusque-là ? C'est à l'inspectrice Karen Pirie qu'est confiée la résolution de l'énigme. Entre passé et présent, elle va devoir s'enfoncer plus loin qu'elle ne l'aurait cru dans l'histoire tragique des Balkans, là où couve encore la violence de crimes de guerre inavoués.Val McDermid signe ici un polar sombre, puissant et parfaitement maîtrisé, hanté par le souvenir sanglant des guerres de Yougoslavie des années 1990.
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Dans une petite ville du Yorkshire, des femmes qui se ressemblent sont retrouvées mortes. Elles sont toutes blondes aux yeux bleus, point commun que partage la commissaire Carol Jordan. Le tueur cherche en chacune de ses victimes la femme parfaite, amante soumise et ménagère accomplie, avant de la massacrer avec la plus grande cruauté. Au moment où le meurtrier se prépare à fondre sur sa prochaine proie, Tony Hill se retrouve au coeur de l'enquête, mais cette fois, sur le banc des accusés. Le célèbre profiler serait-il passé de l'autre côté du miroir ?
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THE SECOND THRILLING NOVEL IN VAL MCDERMID''S NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES There''s nothing like a killer story . . . 1989. The world is changing, and Allie Burns is still on the front line, covering the stories that count. Although Allie is no longer an investigative journalist, her instincts are sharper than ever. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society''s most vulnerable, Allie is determined to give a voice to those who have been silenced. As Allie edges closer to exposing the truth, she travels beyond the Iron Curtain, to East Berlin on the brink of revolution. The dark heart of the story is more shocking than she ever imagined. And to tell it, Allie must risk her freedom and her life . . . The latest Allie Burns thriller, set a decade after the bestselling first novel in the ground-breaking, iconic new series. Praise for 1979 '' McDermid is at her considerable best'' GUARDIAN ''Irresistible'' PATRICIA CORNWELL ''A brilliant novel by a supremo of the genre'' PETER JAMES ''Outstanding'' SPECTATOR ''Another masterpiece'' DAVID BALDACCI ''Sensational. One of Britain''s most accomplished writers'' SUNDAY EXPRESS
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Stephanie Harker franchit les contrôles de sécurité à l'aéroport, quand elle voit son fils se faire embarquer par un homme en uniforme. Prise de panique, elle donne l'alerte. Mais les autorités mettent sa parole en doute. Alors que Stephanie raconte sa version des faits au FBI, ildevient évident que cette histoire est bien plus qu'un enlèvement. Pourquoi voudrait-on kidnapper Jimmy ? Qui est vraiment cet enfant pour elle ?Un thriller fiévreux et palpitant, dont on sort médusé.
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She''s hunting for a killer story . . . 1979 . It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is hunting for the story that will make her name. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs an explosive scoop for the boys'' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won''t stop there. When she discovers a home-grown terrorist threat, Allie comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she''s a woman in a man''s world . . . and putting a foot wrong could be fatal. This is the electrifying first novel in a gripping new series by Queen of Crime Val McDermid.
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STILL LIFE - THE HEART-POUNDING NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME
Val McDermid
- Hachette
- 4 Février 2021
- 9780751576948
Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.>
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'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different case, however - a shocking crime she thought she'd already prevented. As she inches closer to the twisted truths at the centre of these murders, it becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own . . . Number one bestseller and queen of crime Val McDermid returns with her most breathtakingly atmospheric and exhilarating novel yet.
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Cet été-là, il a plu comme rarement à Lake District et la tourbière a livré son secret : un cadavre sans âge, couvert de tatouages. Jane Gresham, spécialiste du poète William Wordsworth, pense aussitôt à une légende locale : Fletcher Christian, le chef des mutins du Bounty, a fui Pitcairn pour regagner clandestinement l'Angleterre. Et son vieil ami Wordsworth a transformé son récit en poème épique. Persuadée que le précieux manuscrit se trouve chez un descendant du poète, Jane enquête. Mais, comme dans toutes les chasses au trésor, les convoitises s'éveillent, et les cadavres s'accumulent.
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'' No one can plot or tell a story like she can '' Daily Express __________ The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder , a festive collection of chilling tales. From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered beneath a silver birch tree, to an author who is haunted by the spiteful presence of a jealous writing partner, the characters McDermid conjures are enigmatic and dangerous, never above suspicion. Follow Tony Hill and Carol Jordan as they track a deadly killer who is preparing to strike on Christmas Day, and lose yourself in a festive exclusive - a recently unearthed case for a classic detective duo, set as the lights are going out across Europe. These evocative, atmospheric tales will shock and delight. This is the perfect book to curl up with as the frosty winter draws in and each night gets darker than the last, written by one of our greatest living crime writers. __________ Praise for the Queen of Crime Val McDermid: '' Brilliant . . . Sensational . . . Unforgettable '' Guardian '' Compulsively readable '' Irish Times '' One of today''s most accomplished crime writers '' Literary Review '' As good a psychological thriller as it is possible to get '' Sunday Express '' It grabs the reader by the throat and never lets go '' Daily Mail
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The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of human traces. Forensics draws on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research and Val McDermid's own experience to lay bare the secrets of this fascinating science. And, along the way, she wonders at how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine time of death, how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist uncovered the victims of a genocide. In her novels, McDermid has been solving complex crimes and confronting unimaginable evil for years. Now, she's looking at the people who do it for real. It's a journey that will take her to war zones, fire scenes and autopsy suites, and bring her into contact with extraordinary bravery and wickedness, as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.
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Scènes de crime ; histoire des sciences criminelles
Val McDermid
- Les Arenes
- 20 Mars 2019
- 9782711201204
Médecine légale, identité judiciaire, entomologie, toxicologie, anthropologie judiciaire, profilage, forensique numérique...
Les sciences criminelles n'ont cessé de se développer et de se perfectionner depuis deux cents ans. Pour la première fois, la célèbre romancière Val McDermid nous fait découvrir, chapitre après chapitre, les grandes affaires criminelles qui ont été résolues grâce aux " experts " d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Elle nous raconte avec brio comment, grâce à la science, les enquêteurs arrivent à retrouver sur une scène de crime des traces qui peuvent devenir des indices, et parfois des preuves. -
Lorsque le corps de Drew Shand, écrivain à succès, est retrouvé mutilé dans le quartier historique d'Édimbourg, la police conclut à un crime crapuleux. Mais après l'assassinat brutal de Jane Elias, la reine du thriller, il faut se rendre à l'évidence : un tueur s'attaque aux stars du roman noir. Et, non content de les éliminer, il reproduit les scènes de leurs propres livres. À quand la troisième victime ?
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HE MASTERFUL NEW THRILLER IN THE SWEEPING, AMBITIOUS, DECADES-SPANNING NEW SERIES, FOLLOWING JOURNALIST ALLIE BURNS, FROM NO.1 BESTSELLER VAL MCDERMID
Praise for Val McDermid
''McDermid is at her considerable best'' GUARDIAN
''Irresistible'' PATRICIA CORNWELL
''A brilliant novel by a supremo of the genre'' PETER JAMES
''Outstanding'' SPECTATOR
''Another masterpiece'' DAVID BALDACCI
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A riveting psychological thriller from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction - Val McDermid.In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn''t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ''63, everyone knew it was a murder.Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished, decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close, terrified of strangers.Now a journalist, she persuades DI George Bennett to speak of the hunt for Alison, the tantalizing leads and harrowing dead ends. But when a fresh lead emerges, Bennett tries to stop the story - plunging Catherine into a world of buried secrets and revelations.''One of the all-time greats - special in every way'' Lee Child''This book changed everything I thought I knew about crime fiction'' Belinda Bauer, bestselling author of Snap''Every now and then, a writer transforms the landscape of the literary canon: Val McDermid is one such writer'' Fiona Cummins, bestselling author of Rattle''Just mesmerizing'' Joseph Knox, bestselling author of Sirens''A brilliant book'' Holly Watt, award winning author of To the Lions''From the first pages, we know we''re in the hands of a master '' Jeffrey Deaver''Beautifully written'' Daily Telegraph''One of the best detective stories I''ve read'' Ruth Rendell''Possibly the best McDermid has written'' Sunday Telegraph
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The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes.A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death.And it could be worth a fortune.It''s summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on the Bounty, had secretly returned to England?Scholar Jane Gresham wants to find out. She believes that the Lakeland poet William Wordsworth, a friend of Christian''s, may have sheltered the fugitive and turned his tale into an epic poem - which has since disappeared.But as she follows each lead, death is hard on her heels. The centuries-old mystery is putting lives at risk. And it isn''t just the truth that is waiting to be discovered, but a bounty worth millions ...
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The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart...
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Catherine Morland est une jeune femme un peu naïve qui ne connaît pas grand-chose du monde. Elle vit dans un pittoresque village où il ne se passe rien et, pour égayer sa vie, se perd dans les livres. Surtout des histoires gothiques qui lui procurent de délicieux frissons. Quelle joie lorsque des amis l´invitent à Edimbourg. Elle y rencontre Henry Tilney, le jeune homme propriétaire d´un domaine au nom prometteur : Northanger Abbey. L´imagination de Catherine s´emballe : une ancienne abbaye, des tourelles en ruine, des chambres secrètes, des fantômes... Elle est fascinée par Henry, mais ne peut pas s´empêcher de se demander si tout est réellement aussi parfait... Et quels secrets dissimulent les hauts murs de Northanger Abbey ? Quand Val McDermid revisite le classique de Jane Austen.
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HOW THE DEAD SPEAK - TONY HILL AND CAROLE JORDAN: BOOK 11
Val McDermid
- Little Brown UK
- 29 Août 2019
- 9781408712269
The next heart-pounding thriller from number one bestseller and queen of crime, Val McDermid 'Her Queen of Crime status will not be challenged' Scotsman 'McDermid remains unrivalled . . . brilliant' Observer 'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review 'Brilliant . . . sensational . . . unforgettable' Guardian