Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of the #1 New York Times bestselling series of crime thrillers.
Valentina Guani Livres






I, Alex Cross
- 468pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered and on investigation he discovers she was mixed up with some very dangerous people. Alex and his girlfriend Brianna Stone find leads to Washington's most infamous club where every fantasy is possible and the patrons, the elite of Washington, will do anything to keep their secrets buried.
Chroniques de San Francisco
- 381pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Fin des seventies. San Francisco, la fureur au cœur et au corps, consomme la libération sexuelle sous des néons tapageurs. Débarquant de Cleveland, la jeune Mary Ann Singleton plante son camp au 28 Barbary Lane, un refuge pour « chats errants ». Logeuse pour le moins libérale, Mme Madrigal règne en douce matriarche sur cette étonnante pension de famille... « Ça va à toute vitesse, avec la profondeur d'un roman d'analyse et la légèreté d'un sitcom.» Stéphane Hoffmann, Madame Figaro Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Olivier Weber et Tristan Duverne
Conviction
- 500pages
- 18 heures de lecture
"When the bady of eleven year old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco bay, the police qwiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defence, is quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.
A powerful, compelling, vividly written Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane Harper
Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.
It is nearly midnight, and very cold. Yet in this dark place of long grass and tall trees where cats hunt and foxes shriek, a girl is waiting... When Saffyre Maddox was ten something terrible happened and she's carried the pain of it around with her ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides from him, invisible in the shadows, learning his secrets; secrets she could use to blow his safe, cosy world apart. Owen Pick is invisible too. He's thirty-three years old and he's never had a girlfriend, he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares about him. But when Saffyre Maddox disappears from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at him. Accusing him. Holding him responsible. Because he's just the type, isn't he? A bit creepy?
The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express
Kay Scarpetta est experte en sciences l gales sur CNN et conseill re aupr s du m decin en chef de l'institut m dico-l gal de New York. Le producteur de CNN souhaite que Scarpetta lance une nouvelle mission. Mais cette notori t accrue semble d clencher une s rie d' v nements inattendus. Alors qu'elle intervient en direct au sujet d'une affaire tr s m diatis e, la disparition et la mort pr sum e d'une millionnaire, Kay re oit un appel surprenant d'une t l spectatrice, qui se r v le tre une ancienne patiente de son mari Benton Wesley, et, de retour chez elle, elle trouve un inqui tant paquet. Scarpetta, dont la vie est menac e, se lance alors dans une enqu te qui implique un acteur c l bre, qu'on accuse d'un crime sexuel, et sa ni ce Lucy, qui aurait eu des liens avec la millionnaire disparue... En mati re de sciences l gales, nul n' gale Cornwell New York Times Book Review
Mère disparue
- 513pages
- 18 heures de lecture
Elle est allongée sur le sol du garage. Inerte. Ses jolis vêtements sont imprégnés de sang. Épouvantée, Nikki secoue sa mère. En vain. Devant ce corps déjà froid, elle doit se rendre à l'évidence : on l'a assassinée. Pour la retenir encore un peu, Nikki enquête auprès de ses proches, ose les questions qu'elle n'a pas eu le temps de poser. Les réponses ont un parfum de révélations...



