Alessandro Zabini Ordre des livres (chronologique)

La mort n'est pas de tout repos. Quand Mme Shepherd vient voir Samson O'Brien à l'Agence de Recherche des Vallons, convaincue que quelqu'un essaie de la tuer, le détective privé pense avoir affaire à une vieille dame un peu sénile. Pourtant, après une série de curieux incidents à la maison de retraite de Fellside Court, il se demande s'il n'aurait pas dû prendre la chose un peu plus au sérieux... Alors que Noël approche, Samson se lance dans une enquête qui l'oblige à renouer avec les habitants de Bruncliffe, ceux-là mêmes qu'il a fuis une dizaine d'années auparavant et qui le traitent à présent comme un paria. Et qui mieux que la tempétueuse Delilah Metcalfe, propriétaire de l'Agence de Rencontre des Vallons, peut l'aider à regagner leur confiance ? Deuxième volet d'une série so british, Rendez-vous avec le mal est un polar drôle, plein de charme et au casting haut en couleur.

'Imagine Evelyn Waugh meets Nancy Mitford, with some Jilly Cooper thrown in, and you have this splendid romp ... Hilarious, escapist bliss' YOU 'Delights from start to finish' Mail on Sunday 'Irresistible' Guardian 'Sheer escapist bliss' Nigella Lawson 'Pure joy' India Knight, Sunday Times Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For Comic Fiction The Earls of Trelawney have inhabited the same castle for 800 years - but recent generations have been better at spending than making money. Now living in isolated penury, unable to communicate with each other or the rest of the world, the family are running out of options. Three unexpected events will hasten their demise: the sudden appearance of a new relation, an illegitimate, headstrong, beautiful girl; an unscrupulous American hedge fund manager determined to exact revenge; and the crash of 2008. Deliciously escapist and gloriously funny, House of Trelawney is a novel about family and forgiveness, chaos and crisis - and finding yourself in the most unexpected ways.

Una protagonista tenace e volitiva. Un'ambientazione affascinante. Una serie di gialli di enorme successo: tre milioni di copie vendute in Francia. Tra Lanester e Lorient, due tranquille cittadine sulla costa bretone, viene ritrovato il cadavere di un vagabondo al ritiro della marea. Un destino scontato per un uomo dedito al bere. Nel frattempo, un amministratore di un'azienda è scomparso, e molte altre persone spariscono senza spiegazione. Alcuni balordi rubano un’auto e svaligiano una casa. Nella sonnolenta routine del commissariato di Lorient, la giovane ispettore Mary Lester, fresca di scuola di Polizia, decide di seguire il proprio istinto e collegare questi eventi, oltre le apparenze. In un ambiente dominato da uomini, riuscirà Mary a convincere i colleghi a supportarla nell’indagine e scoprire la verità? Il romanzo segna il fortunato debutto di Mary Lester nel genere giallo, mostrando già in queste pagine il suo piglio e la sua caparbietà, che la porteranno a affrontare una lunga serie di indagini e a conquistare un ampio consenso di pubblico. Il libro è già apparso in Italia con il titolo di *Omicidio a Lorient*.

A lively, well-written, entertaining whodunit The Times on The Mitford Murders

Assassins are coming to St. Louis to kill master vampire Jean-Claude, necromancer Anita Blake, and werewolf Richard Zeeman. Anita knows they're coming, but even being forewarned doesn't mean the triumvirate will win.

"RAISING THE DEAD IS EASY. LOVE IS HARD..." There are lots of reasons to raise the dead-some private, some public. In this case, the feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. So here I am, on a plane to Philadelphia, flying off to do my job. But I'm not alone. Micah is with me. Micah, head of the St. Louis wereleopard pard. King to my Queen. The only one of my lovers who can stir my blood with just a glance from his chartreuse cat's eyes. I was happy to have him at my side. Until he mentioned that this will be our first time alone together. No Master Vampire. No Alpha Werewolf. Just me and Micah. And all my fears and doubts...

Mon nom est Blake, Anita Blake. Les vampires, eux, m'appellent "l'Exécutrice" et par égard pour les oreilles les plus chastes, je ne vous dirai pas comment, moi, je les appelle. Ma spécialité, au départ, c'était plutôt les zombies. Je relève les morts à la nuit tombée pour une petite PME. Ce n'est pas toujours très exaltant et mon patron m'exploite honteusement, mais quand on a un vrai don, ce serait idiot de ne pas s'en servir. Tuer des vampires, c'est autre chose, une vieille passion liée à des souvenirs d'enfance. Depuis qu'ils sont officiellement reconnus et ont pignon sur rue, ils se croient tout permis. Certes, il yen a de charmants, voire très sexy, mais il y en a aussi qui abusent. Ceux-là je les élimine. Rien de tel pour garder la forme : ça vous fouette le sang !

After the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy anticipate a joyful life at Pemberley. However, family obligations lead them to Mansfield Park, where they become entangled in marriage plans, star-crossed love, deceit, mistaken identity, and even murder.

Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried—and some people better off dead.

Richard, mon ex-fiancé et chef de la meute de loups-garous locale, était en train d'étudier les trolls dans le Tennessee quand il s'est fait arrêter pour tentative de viol. D'accord, nous ne sommes pas en très bons termes depuis que je l'ai plaqué pour Jean-Claude, le vampire qui me courait après depuis une éternité. Mais tout de même, je connais bien Richard. Je sais qu'il ne ferait jamais une chose pareille. Je flaire comme une machination, et déjouer les machinations, c'est mon passe-temps favori quand je ne suis pas en train de relever les morts. Donc, cap sur le Tennessee pour aller délivrer Richard. Le seul problème, c'est que je ne sais pas comment Jean-Claude va réagir. Enfin, quand je dis le seul problème... Je suis sûre que ça ne le restera pas longtemps.

First, there were the dead in the graveyard two hundred years dead. I've been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I'd never seen before. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant of coure. It didn't take a degree in prenatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. And I was right in the middle of it. My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life... ---back cover.

Dopo aver raccolto voci, sospetti, tracce, Meren ha deciso di indagare a fondo sulla morte della regina Nefertiti. Si è convinto infatti che la bellissima consorte del faraone Akhenaten sia stata assassinata e che il colpevole sia da cercare proprio nella corte del giovane faraone Tutankamon. Sarà un'indagine difficile: una a una le persone con le quali vuole parlare scompaiono o vengono misteriosamente uccise... È questa la quinta indagine del principe Meren, quinto episodio della serie mystery dell'antico Egitto creata da Lynda S. Robinson.

The knocker hung on a very special door - oak, heavy, with a late-Gothic arch, and apparently a late-Gothic curse. Then the door was moved from an old house, once an abbey, to the village church. Legend held that sinners who seized the knocker had their hands burned by the cold iron. But Gerry Bracewell didn't die of burns, neither did a second victim. Had they knocked on death's door, or was a more down-to-earth killer at large? Detective Chief Inspector George Felse, returning from a weekend in Wales, had passed through the village of Mottisham and watched the ceremony enacted to re-dedicate the door. Little did he know that soon he would be called back to investigate murder...

Bunty la moglie dell'ispettore Felse si sente sola: sta per compiere quarant'anni, suo marito è spesso via per lavoro e per una sera avverte la sensazione che la sua vita sia finita in un vicolo cieco. Così senza pensarci troppo si ferma in un bar e decide di scambiare due chiacchiere con un avventore, solo come lei. Il giovane si offre di accompagnarla a casa ma, improvvisamente, Bunty scopre nel bagagliaio dell'auto dello sconosciuto, il cadavere di una donna. La situazione precipita: un'innocente chiacchierata si trasforma in un rapimento e poi in una drammatica fuga da un gruppo di malviventi che insegue il giovane. Bunty, però, è convinta che il giovane non possa essere un assassino...

"Shed here no tears. No Saint could die More Blessed and Comforted than I." So read the epitaph composed by Morwenna Treverra centuries ago as she followed her beloved husband, Jan, into death. The couple have been together ever since, models of pious content, in the little seaside Saxon church near the villa of Maymouth. When curious scholars arrange to open Jan Treverra's tomb, it yields not one body but two...and neither one of them is Jan Treverra. Detective Inspector George Felse happens to be on holiday nearby; indeed, he helped to open the crypt and reveal its all too modern contents. Now, from an ancient grave, mystery unfolds; a trail of violence in Maymouth's history that casts shadows centuries long...

865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between.... The Hammer and the Cross.