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J.J. de Wit

    One for the money
    The Mephisto Club
    Killer Smile
    Down River
    Jack McEvoy Serie - 1: De dichter
    Le Dernier coyote
    • Le Dernier coyote

      • 600pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled and the smell of a cover-up is unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to divert justice and Harry vows to uncover the truth. As he relentlessly follows the broken pieces of the case, the stirred interest causes new murders and pushes Harry to the edge of his job... and his life.

      Le Dernier coyote
      4,3
    • Jack McEvoy Serie - 1: De dichter

      • 420pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime, if he can get the story without losing his life.

      Jack McEvoy Serie - 1: De dichter
      4,1
    • Down River

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to wipe out the memory of his family's rejection. Until a phone call from his best friend Summons him back to Red Water Farm. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Now he has no choice but to return - and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget. Nothing has changed. And then people start turning up dead. For a man only just acquitted of murder, Adam's homecoming does not go well. And he has a dark streaks, a history of violence. Everyone doubts. No one trusts him. And as the past threatnes to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders. He alone can clear his name.

      Down River
      4,0
    • Killer Smile

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Young lawyer Mary DiNunzio finds her life in jeopardy when she digs too closely into the suicide of an Italian-American in a World War II internment camp, and starts receiving ominous threats.

      Killer Smile
      3,7
    • 'Gruesome, seductive and creepily credible' The Times'I HAVE SINNED'The words are scrawled in blood at the most shocking murder scene Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli have ever witnessed. The victim, a young woman, has been entirely drained of blood and horrifically dismembered.

      The Mephisto Club
      3,9
    • One for the money

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Stephanie Plum is is a failed lingerie buyer, newly turned bond agent. Her first job is to find Morrelli, a policeman/murder suspect on the run and her childhood sweetheart. Real menace enters the story when Stephanie attracts the psychopathic attentions of boxer Benito Ramirez.

      One for the money
      3,8
    • Rough Justice

      • 463pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client's innocence. Taking justice into her own hands, she furiously sets out to prove the truth, with the help of two young associates. In an excruciating game of beat-the-clock with both the jury and the worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn that the search for justice isn't only rough—it can also be deadly.

      Rough Justice
      3,7
    • XPD

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      This novel is constructed around the supposition that Winston Churchill secretly met with Adolf Hitler in 1940 to discuss the terms of a British surrender. Forty years later, Hitler's personal minutes of the discussions are threatening to surface.

      XPD
      3,8
    • La constance du jardinier

      • 488pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Tessa Quayle, jeune et belle avocate anglaise, a été sauvagement assassinée près du lac Turkana dans le nord du Kenya. Son compagnon de voyage et amant supposé, médecin africain dune organisation humanitaire, a disparu sans laisser de trace. Justin, l'époux de Tessa, diplomate de carrière au haut-commissariat britannique de Nairobi et jardinier amateur, se lance dans une quête solitaire à la recherche des tueurs et de leur mobile. Sa quête l'entraîne à Londres, puis à travers l'Europe et au Canada, pour le ramener en Afrique jusqu'au Sud-Soudan et se terminer sur les lieux mêmes du crime. Une odyssée pleine de violence et de fureur où se trament les sombres machinations de multinationales pharmaceutiques, où se nouent d'étranges alliances politiques. Et tandis que s'éveille la conscience de Justin, tandis qu'il se rallie à la cause de Tessa, allant jusqu'à achever la mission qu'elle s'était assignée, sa plus grande révélation sera la découverte de cette femme qu'il n'a guère eu le temps d'aimer. La Constance du jardinier mêle l'histoire bouleversante d'un homme grandi par la tragédie et l'impitoyable exploration de la face cachée de la mondialisation par l'un des romanciers les plus incisifs de notre époque.

      La constance du jardinier
      3,7