Showing results for "mere" in Suspense

When a teenage couple go missing, the police aren’t too concerned. Young lovers often make bad choices. Then a body is found near a Suffolk lighthouse, and shortly after, two girls seem to vanish into thin air. Freshly promoted DI Ashley Knight knows she has a battle on her hands to keep the public safe, and she’s going to need expert help. Ashley turns to her old protégé, Hector Fade, seconded from The Met to analyse an avalanche of data. But neither Hector nor Ashley are prepared for the chilling connection his work uncovers to the body by the lighthouse.

The remains of a 17th-century witch, an MP found hanging above a five-pointed star and three girls with powers beyond anyone's control. As DI Tanner and DS Evans endeavour to make plans for their big day, the chance discovery of Norfolk's last known witch, tried and hanged by Norfolk’s infamous Witchfinder General, sparks a chain of the most horrific events, none of which Tanner seems able to prevent.

For a nation that elected Barack Obama as president, here is the first novel of the new era: The Mere Future, by award-winning novelist, activist, and playwright Sarah Schulman, set in a utopian (or is it dystopic?) future vision of New York City. The city has morphed into what appears to be an idealized version of itself, the result of what the new mayor calls "The Big Change," in which rent is cheap, homelessness is a thing of the past, and the only job left is marketing.

Dans le parc régional de Brière, où vit une petite communauté soudée autour d'un restaurant et d'un bistrot, se cache un criminel au sang froid qui mutile des femmes enceintes. Dépêchés sur les lieux, Céleste Ibar et son fidèle lieutenant sauront-ils déchiffrer les signes laissés par le tueur ? Céleste Ibarbengoetxea, capitaine à la PJ de Nantes. Un nom imprononçable. Un visage balafré. Un passé terrible : séquestrée et martyrisée, elle a survécu en faisant preuve d'une violence inhumaine.

Everyone wants to be a writer. Here is a woman that is learning from a “how-to” book on mystery writing. While she is trying to write the next best seller, her husband busies himself with building bird houses. She hates bird houses. Put the two together and you have a recipe for murder.