On assassine au Paradis

L'Arnaque n'est plus ce qu'elle était

Ce n'est pas tous les jours que l'on tombe nez à nez avec un cadavre grignoté par les poissons en creusant un trou dans la glace pour pêcher. Surtout quand la cause de la mort s'apparente plus à un impact de balle qu'à une attaque de truites enragées...
Et dire que le shérif Matt Gabriel s'apprêtait à passer un hiver calme, seulement rompu par la traditionnelle fête de la Glace !
La disparition mystérieuse d'une jeune fille du lycée local, élève de Jess Gibbons, ne fait qu'aggraver la situation. De plus, on murmure que la disparue n'avait pas froid aux yeux...
Difficile de découvrir le moindre indice, quand la moindre surface à l'air libre est recouverte par trois mètres de neige, et que même les cadavres arrivent difficilement à remonter à la surface des eaux gelées...
Suspense et humour par -40° C, un exploit uniquement réalisable par Paula Gosling !

Au coeur de l'hiver

Every year, the normally staid citizens of Blackwater Bay celebrate Halloween with a carnival of madness and laughter - they call it the Howl. Practical jokes are the speciality of the day and every town in the county competes for the wildest 'Howler' of all. For one person however, the Howl means murder. Under cover of the carnival, the killer that struck thirty years ago strikes again. Or, at least, that is what Sheriff Matt Gabriel thinks. Everybody else says he's crazy. Suspicion, hatred and resentment surround him as he searches for the person who killed once, twice - and may kill again. Witty, full of incident and character, with a genuinely surprising solution, A Few Dying Words, once again proves Paula Gosling's mastery in the art of the whodunit.

A Few Dying Words

After her husband's tragic death Tess Leland has finally started to piece her life back together - but someone is determined to take it apart again .

Death Penalties

Ce passé de tireur d'élite au Viet-Nam, il le traînait comme un boulet qui était devenu un remords. Son ennemi - public et intime - tuait pour l'argent et n'en éprouvait aucun remords. De l'orgueil, au contraire. Alors, entre celui qui avait honte et celui qui s'en croyait, s'interposa la tendresse d'une femme qui n'avait envie que de vivre.

Un flic pas tellement sale

Wychford is a charming and quiet West Country village. Or rather, it was - until Mrs Tompkins was found with her throat slashed. Now, when evening shadows fall, the picturesque little lanes seem filled with menace and golden Cotswold stones are stained with blood in the first of Paula Gosling's Luke Abbott series, The Wychford Murders. Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbott is sent to find the killer. He was born and brought up in Wychford - but he hardly recognizes it. The young girl he loved has become the local doctor. The boy who once bullied him is now a respected local Squire. And in all the small homes and cottages the people of Wychford hide - wondering who next will fall victim to the killer's bloody knife. Abbott's investigation exposes the private lives behind the postcard prettiness: secret loves and hates, perversion, envy, jealousy, greed, and - eventually - a ruthless murderer.

The Wychford Murders

A murdered nurse, disappearing drug supplies, diminishing funds and the sudden death of two apparently healthy patients are just some of the problems confronting Blackwater Bay's leading private clinic. Laura Brandon, recently arrived physiotherapist and self-appointed sleuth, realises that a lot of people have something to hide. Confronted by tight-lipped colleagues, inter-staff feuds, and strange tales about a shadowy evil that lurks in the woods, Laura begins to believe the theory of a psychotic killer on the loose. Then another, eerily similar, murder occurs and she knows the solution cannot be impersonal. Fast-paced, entertaining and expertly plotted, Paul Gosling's latest tale from the Great Lakes brilliantly confirms her mastery in the art of the murder mystery.

Death and Shadows

A loved professor is found shot dead in her home. Her student is murdered whilst he's working at the hospital. And Jack Stryker's partner Kate is being secretly harassed. Can he get to the bottom of this dark mystery in Paula Gosling's third and final Jack Stryker novel?Whilst the professor's case looks like a domestic homicide and the student's looks like a mugging gone wrong, nothing is really as it seems in this intense and puzzling thriller. Stryker's instincts seem to be leading him awry but could the two barbarous murders be interlinked? Jack Stryker follows a dangerous trail to find out in Ricochet.

Ricochet

It's election time in Blackwater Bay but there's a dead man in Cotter's Cut who won't be casting his vote this year. Sheriff Matt Gabriel is faced with a murder without apparent motive and circumstantial evidence leads him to arrest Frog Bartlett. Frog Bartlett is the ugliest man in Blackwater County, and he has the nastiest temper. But at least one person believes he is innocent - and has enough money to anonymously finance a strong defence. The election hots up, tempers become frayed, a small riot occurs - and then somebody else is killed. Suddenly Matt Gabriel himself is a suspect. Forced to withdraw from the investigation, he turns it over to his Chief Deputy George Putnam. Now the townsfolk are really worried. While George turns himself inside out trying to be a proper Sheriff, certain people decide to lend both George and Matt a hand - adding further confusion to the situation. Once again, Paula Gosling brings her talent for zany characters and complex, suspenseful plots to the world of Blackwater Bay. The result is a delightful story of thrills and spills and assorted cookies.

Underneath Every Stone

Now, in the blank-faced and mazed city, death had become vicious and secret and cold. Somewhere out there, an ego was coiled, waiting. Winner of a Golden Dagger award, Paula Gosling's Monkey Puzzle introduces us to Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker. An obsessive cop, an oddball, and (occasionally) a genius. When Grantham University's most unpopular professor is viciously murdered there are a myriad of potential suspects, and one of whom happens to be connected to Stryker's past .

Monkey Puzzle

A person who would kill a cop respects no-one. A person who would kill a cop would kill anyone. Four cops, from four precincts, all shot dead. A chaotic wave is erupting through the American police force in Paula Gosling's second Jack Stryker novel, Backlash. When a federal investigator appears on the killer's hit list, the simple answers seem to be disappearing way too fast and time is running out. Are these homicides linked? Or is the killer choosing victims at random? Can the police department computer make any connections that stick? Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker is on the case with his partner Agent Dana Marchant, and together they must track a marksman with an uncanny criminal brain and a ruthlessly persistent purpose.

Backlash

Larmes fatales

Clare Randell has a problem with her boyfriend and a lazy San Francisco Sunday to think it over. That's the Sunday she helps a passing stranger pick up the papers he's dropped from his briefcase. From then on Clare's problems got bigger and more dangerous. Someone puts a hole in her arm with a silenced gun in a crowded street. Is it the same someone who put the bomb in her apartment? The cop assigned to her case is Lieutenant Malchek, an ex-Vietnam sniper who now specialises in hit-men and contract killers. Maybe the man who dropped the papers was someone special. Maybe he's got Clare on his list.

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