Trouble is brewing and Frank Riordan is the only one willing to stop it. As he wages a one-man campaign to shut down the local pulp mill that is polluting the air and devastating the environment, tensions are growing - and so is the level of power he's up against. It is...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25

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The tenth Robicheaux mystery, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award.Megan and Cisco Flynn are back in town. Nobody had ever been caught for the Klan murder of their father, Jack, and Detective Dave Robicheaux knows that trouble cannot be far behind. Particularly when...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Dave Robicheaux
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A fourth novel featuring former Texas Ranger turned lawyer turned crime fighter, Billy Bob Holland, set in the savage and beautiful landscape of Montana.Wyatt Dixon, rodeo cowboy and 'the most dangerous, depraved, twisted and unpredictable human I ever knew' is...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Billy Bob Holland
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'The crime book of the year is unquestionably James Lee Burke's HEARTWOOD . . .there is no better crime writing coming out of America' EVENING STANDARDDeaf Smith, Texas, a small town with small town problems until the local boy made good Earl Deitrich decides that he...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Billy Bob Holland
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'A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he richly belongs' Independent On SundayIt is a rainy late-summer's night in New Orleans. Detective Dave Robicheaux is about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Dave Robicheaux
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A powerful novel of conflict, history and shadows from the past ... by the bestselling, acclaimed author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN.'As I stood there on my front porch that hot, breathless July day, leaning against the column with the six bullet holes, now worn and...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Hackberry Holland
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'When James Lee Burke writes, the little birdies sing, the sun comes out and old men learn to dance again. That's how good he is. And now he's back . . . Purple Cane Road may be the finest novel Burke has written' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'At times Burke's writing and...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Dave Robicheaux
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America's finest crime writer sends hero Billy Bob Holland deep into Montana - paradise to some, to others a savage wilderness...'Still the greatest, bar none' LITERARY REVIEW'Powerful stuff and confirms Burke's place in the forefront of contemporary American crime...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Billy Bob Holland
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A compelling coming-of-age novel from the award-winning crime writer.For generations, Perry James' family has lived under the shadow of the Cumberland range and worked in the coal mines. Staunch union supporters, Perry's grandfather and father have known hard times and...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25

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A mesmerising novel set in the Louisiana heartland from award-winning author James Lee Burke.Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life - but...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25

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An epic novel of the American Civil War from the bestselling author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN.'Brilliant. Its sense of place, of a world recreated, is unerring. The story, as we would expect of Burke, is enthralling' Bernard Cornwell, DAILY MAIL'Classic Burke . . . a...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25

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'Evil, bigotry and doing the right thing. All are done as expertly as ever by a master writer' DAILY TELEGRAPHLucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Billy Bob Holland
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Brilliant new Hap and Leonard pageturner from the author of THE BOTTOMSHap Collins, chicken plant guard, saves a young woman. However, no good deed goes unpunished when he takes his best friend Leonard on a Caribbean cruise. Misbehaving at a lobster dinner, the two are...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-11-25

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A hard-edged crime thriller set at the start of the Texas oil boom in the 1930sWhen Pete Jones, the local constable, is shot dead, his widow, Sunset, finds herself in his job, investigating a series of brutal murders. Most of the townsfolk object to her wearing Pete's...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-11-25

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A classic coming-of-age murder mystery with corrupt cops, segregation, ice cream and missing lesbiansIt is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-11-25

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America's most acclaimed crime writer and winner of the CWA Gold Dagger returns to Louisiana with his great detective, Dave RobicheauxThree men are present when Amanda Boudreau is raped and murdered, and small-time hustler Tee Bobby Hulin's prints are found at the crime...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Dave Robicheaux
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'If you like Kathy Reichs, you'll like Jefferson Bass' The Times.Bill Brockton is exhuming a body to obtain a bone sample for a paternity test. A simple enough job until he discovers that the body's limbs have all been removed. Digging deeper, he soon finds himself...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : The Body Farm
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When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't remember, he reluctantly finds himself caught up with Robert Gant, a ruthless lowlife with violent plans.Attempting to stay out of Gant's way, Mitchell finds work as a...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-11-25

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Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in BADGER'S MOON, the thirteenth historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author THE HAUNTED ABBOT, SMOKE IN THE WIND and many more.PRAISE FOR THE SISTER FIDELMA SERIES: 'Rich helpings of evil and tension with lively and varied...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : Sister Fidelma
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1918, and whilst an end to the war draws ever nearer, Britain's future is far from certain... We Shall Not Sleep is the powerful, tragic, final novel in Anne Perry's World War I quintet. Perfect for fans of Pat Barker and Sebastian Barry.'Perry creates a meticulously...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2010-11-25
Collection : World War 1 Series
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