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Val McDermid

    4 juin 1955
    Val McDermid
    The Mermaids Singing. The Wire in the Blood
    La dernière tentation
    Le chant des sirènes
    La souffrance des autres
    Les suicidees
    Sous les mains sanglantes. Schleichendes Gift, französische Ausgabe
    • 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.

      Les suicidees
    • La souffrance des autres

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      4,0(280)Évaluer

      Dr. Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan return in the award-winning series that is the basis for the BBC television show. In a small grim room, the body of a woman is discovered, panic and pain etched in her face. The scene matches in every detail a series of murders two years ago-murders that ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of a deeply disturbed young man named Derek Tyler. But there's no way Tyler could have killed the latest victim. He's been locked up in a mental institution since his trial, barely speaking a word. So is there a copycat? All his years of experience tell top criminal psychologist Dr. Tony Hill that there isn't-but that would make the murders literally impossible. While Hill tries to crack Tyler, DCI Carol Jordan and her team must mount a desperate undercover operation to trap the murderer-a decision that will have terrible consequences. In The Torment of Others, Val McDermid keeps the tension mounting, as a mixture of psychological insight and dogged detective work leads inexorably to a terrifying climax where Tony faces one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered.

      La souffrance des autres
    • " Il n'a pas voulu de moi. Je ne demandais qu'à lui donner de l'amour, à le satisfaire, à le combler. Mais il a refusé tout ce que je lui offrais. C'est à ce moment-là que les meurtres ont commencé à Bradfield... " La police l'appelle le Tueur Homo. Féru de supplices anciens tels que le chevalet, il punit atrocement les jeunes hommes qui l'ont repoussé. Au point, sans doute, de ne trouver le bonheur que dans la punition. Face à lui, assistant les enquêteurs, Tony Hill, " profileur ", psychiatre chargé de dessiner le portrait mental d'un assassin d'après ses actes et ses habitudes. Mais se frayer un chemin dans la tête de ceux qui tuent, n'est-ce pas aller à la rencontre de ses propres gouffres ?

      Le chant des sirènes
    • La dernière tentation

      • 545pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      Dans l'espoir d'intégrer un corps d'élite, l'inspectrice Carol Jordan accepte une mission particulièrement dangereuse: faire tomber un trafiquant de drogue réputé intouchable

      La dernière tentation
    • 4,4(224)Évaluer

      The mermaids singing: "A serial killer is on the loose in the northern city of Bradfield. Four men have been brutally killed by savage knife wounds. In each case, the men have been mutilated and tortured, though the mutilations are not identical and nothing obvious appears to connect the victims. Fear grips the city; no man feels safe. Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is brought in to profile the killer, to work alongside Detective Inspector Carol Jordan."

      The Mermaids Singing. The Wire in the Blood
    • Forensics

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      4,3(878)Évaluer

      Forensics draws on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists.

      Forensics
    • Hugely successful, internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author Val McDermid writes her first picture book for children.

      My Granny Is a Pirate
    • *This special edition hardback contains a bonus short story* 'There were a lot of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them . . .' When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car, a routine DNA test could be the key to unlocking the mystery of a twenty-year-old murder inquiry. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at solving the unsolvable. With each cold case closed, justice is served. So, finding the answer should be straightforward, but it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another case, one that she has no business investigating. And as she pieces together decades-old evidence, Karen discovers the most dangerous kind of secrets. Secrets that someone is willing to kill for . . . Number one bestseller Val McDermid returns with her most atmospheric, spine-chilling and gripping novel to date.

      Out of Bounds, Special Collector's Edition