Showing results for "A Literature of Questions" in Suspense

Vingt ans après un scandale qui a brisé des vies, Shirin ose poser la question interdite. À 14 ans, Shirin a rencontré Adam, un vidéaste talentueux qui l'a choisie comme modèle. Une relation ambiguë s'est nouée, jusqu'au drame. Aujourd'hui, Shirin veut rétablir la vérité sur ce qui s'est réellement passé. Mais la société n'est pas prête à l'écouter.

Le commissaire Brunetti reçoit un jour la visite de Claudia Leonardo, une étudiante élève de sa femme. La requête de la jeune fille l'intrigue : elle veut savoir si son grand-père, qui a commis un crime pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, peut être réhabilité après sa mort. Mais elle reste évasive quant à la nature de ce crime. Brunetti mène l'enquête et apprend qu'il pourrait bien s'agir d'un trafic d'œuvres d'art. Lorsque Claudia est retrouvée poignardée dans son appartement, les choses se compliquent.

Following a skiing accident, journalist Sally Proctor is recuperating at her parents' rural Somerset home when she hears about a local man, Brian Jennings, who's been jailed for arson. His sister, convinced of his innocence, is campaigning for his release - and Sally decides to help her by conducting her own enquiries. As she starts to uncover serious discrepancies in the original investigation, Sally and her family are threatened by a series of increasingly menacing incidents. It soon becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to stop her finding out the truth.

While rooting around in the mysterious stone chambers of New England, historian Cameron Thorne and his fiancée Amanda Spencer-Gunn stumble upon a reinterpretation of the Biblical passage calling on Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. It is a revelation—long suppressed by the medieval Knights Templar—that threatens to destabilize the Middle East forever. It is also a secret Cam and Amanda want nothing to do with. Not that a rogue faction of puppeteering Freemasons gives a damn what Cam and Amanda want.

Best-selling crime writer Geoffrey Gilroy is overcome with jealousy when his wife’s newfound success in the genre begins to eclipse his. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge on the subject, he meticulously plans the perfect murder that will put an end to his wife’s career—and life—once and for all.