New Releases by T. Jefferson Parker

1968. La guerre du Vietnam fait rage et l''Amérique n''en finit pas de compter ses morts. La paranoïa anti-rouges atteint des sommets ; Charles Manson promène sa silhouette inquiétante dans les night-clubs confidentiels où il cachetonne. A Laguna Beach, Timothy Leary, initie ses disciples aux mystères du LSD et de l''amour sans entraves... Alors que le vent du changement balaie le pays, la jeune Janelle Vonn est retrouvée décapitée dans un entrepôt de Californie du Sud. Andy, Nick et David Becker, trois frères qui connaissent la famille Vonn depuis l''enfance, se lancent à la poursuite du meurtrier. Et plus l''enquête avance, plus les suspects potentiels se multiplient.. T. Jefferson Parker restitue avec une impressionnante justesse de ton et d''émotion l''atmosphère de la Californie du Sud en 1968. Roman au style percutant, California Girl s''est vu attribuer le prestigieux prix Edgar, récompensant le meilleur policier publié aux Etats-Unis en 2005.

When the head of one of two feuding families is found murdered, homicide officer Tom McMichael, a member of the suspected family, is challenged to put aside his personal feelings in order to investigate.

Merci Raborn''s partner and father of her child is dead. After two years she falls in love with her new partner Mike McNally, but he becomes the rime suspect in the murder of a young prostitute.

''Parker has only one competitor -- Thomas Harris'' Washington Post ! At once horrifying, tense and lyrical, The Blue Hour is a beautifully written novel that probes the darkest recesses of the human psyche. He takes the women from shopping malls. They are beautiful, sophisticated, but he treats them like animals, and when he''s done, he leaves only his grisly signature to taunt the Orange County police -- a purse full of entrails. Where are the bodies? How can these women disappear so completely? Whatever the Purse Snatcher has done to them, it surely cannot be worse than the imaginings of a shock-hardened police force! But they don''t know the sick mind they''re dealing with. Detective Hess has given his life to the police, but now lung cancer is looking to claim him. Merci Rayborn is at the beginning of her career and she''s determined to get to the top, whatever it takes. Assigned to the case by a boss with a hidden agenda, Hess and Merci at first agree on just one thing: they want to catch the Purse Snatcher and see him fry. But as another woman disappears, and then another, they become united through their obsession with a case that will change both their lives forever.

In his newest novel, the bestselling author of "The Triggerman''s Dance" masterfully reinvents the classic loner cop: a man with a dark and violent past whose redemption can come only through saving others. Terry Naughton, head of Orange County''s new Crimes Against Youth Division, has his work cut out for him when he faces The Horridus--a madman who kidnaps children, then releases them unharmed but dressed in period clothing with a piece of snakeskin as a memento 12-city author tour. TV ads (Psychological Suspense) .

Beneath the teeming and exotic surfaceon, Chuck Frye, renegade son of a powerful land baron, kidnaps his brother''s Vietnamese wife . . . and is plunged into a wealthy family''s web of tragic secrets. Non-stop action from the author of Laguna Heat.#St. Martin''s Press.

When reporter/crime writer Russell Monroe finds his former lover brutally slain in an apparently ritual style, he suspects a connection to other recent murders in the county. Somehow, the case never appears on the police blotter - although Russell saw his former colleague, homicide chief Marty Parish, leaving the scene of the crime - and soon all evidence of the death disappears. Meanwhile, a string of killings continues in the same gruesome style, and Russell becomes the contact of the deranged man responsible. As Monroe gets dangerously entangled in this deadly intrigue, he must fight for his life while watching his wife fight for hers against a terminal brain tumor.

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