The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
While jogging along the Cape Cod shore, a thirtysomething single mother struggling to recover from a difficult divorce stumbles upon a half-buried bottle containing a touching love letter that sends her on an uncertain odyssey of self-discovery, renewal,
Spooner est intenable. Enfant agité né dans les années 1950 en Géorgie, adolescent rebelle, il est élevé par son beau-père, Calmer Ottosson. Cet ancien officier de marine, expulsé de l'armée, consacrera sa vie à tenter, en vain, d'empêcher Spooner de semer autour de lui le chaos et la désolation. En créant Warren Spooner, son double de fiction, Pete Dexter nous livre son roman le plus personnel.
Two brothers--rookie police officer Derek Strange, and his older brother, Dennis, a troubled Vietnam veteran--become caught up in the riots that engulfed Washington, D.C., in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., as Derek hunts for his brother's killer, vicious local drug dealer Alvin Jones, through the streets of a troubled city. Reprint.
A presque quarante ans, Lorenzo Brown sort enfin de prison. Bien décidé à se tenir à carreau, il s'investit corps et âme dans une association de défense des animaux mal-traités. Mais dans les quartiers les plus miséreux de Washington D.C., le pouvoir reste entre les mains des patrons de la drogue. Et voici Brown à nouveau embringué dans le cycle infernal de la violence...
In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City
C'est devenu une obsession : tous les six mois, Bosch ressort le dossier Marie Gesto, jeune fille dont la mystérieuse disparition n'a jamais été élucidée. En treize ans d'enquête, il n'a rien pu trouver : ni indice, ni suspect, pas même le corps de la jeune victime. Un jour enfin le coupable passe aux aveux, mais Bosch se méfie : pour lui, l'homme n'est rien d'autre qu'un imposteur talentueux doublé d'un bouc émissaire idéal. Une dernière fois, Bosch reprend l'enquête...
Losing their husbands in a series of murders, Diane Stevens and Kelly Harris, fearful of losing their own lives and suspicious of one another, become allies in a game that reveals deadly secrets about their husbands' powerful employer.
Lured back to her former profession of robbing casino gamblers of their winnings, Cassie Black suddenly finds herself pursued by mysterious gunmen who are closing in on Cassie's deepest secret, one that she will do anything to protect.
Having inherited the highly successful family business after the death of her father, Elizabeth faces the wrath of her power-hungry relatives who want her to allow the company go public and becomes the target of an assassin.
Confronted by his own tragic past when the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch attempts to unearth the boy's identity, leading him to startling discoveries and possibly destroying his career.