When the daughter of the most powerful Mafia don in New York goes missing, the don's right-hand man comes to Gulliver Dowd for help. Problem is, the right-hand man and Dowd despise each other. Plus, the don knows who murdered Dowd's sister, Keisha, but refuses to share that knowledge with Gulliver. Still, Dowd makes a devil's deal and hunts for the girl. Old secrets and lies boil to the surface, threatening to destroy the lives of everyone involved. But who has the girl? An eccentric art professor, or one of the don's many enemies? Will Gulliver find her, or will their fates dissolve in a corrosive stew of love and fear?

Love and Fear - A Gulliver Dowd Mystery

Gulliver Dowd is finally on the verge of unraveling the mystery behind his sister's murder when the man who is supposed to give him the scoop, NYPD Detective Sam Patrick, is gunned down on the Coney Island Boardwalk. As Dowd delves into Patrick's accidental shooting, he uncovers a pattern of corruption and deceit involving organized crime and the police. But there are tough choices to be made. Just how much is Gulliver willing to sacrifice in order to find out why his sister was murdered and to unmask the killer? The answers aren't found in the moon or the stars, but on the boardwalk.

The Boardwalk is third in the Gulliver Dowd Mystery series, featuring a New York private investigator. In award-winning author Louise Penny's words: "A little man with a huge heart and a huge chip on his shoulder, Gulliver Dowd swaggers into the crime fiction world and takes his place with the great investigators. Smart, vulnerable, wounded, heartbreakingly hopeful, I just adore his company."

The Boardwalk

1944, camp de concentration de Birkenau. Les destins de Jacob et d'Isaac se trouvent scellés quand le carnet de ce dernier est confisqué par le sous-lieutenant Kleinmann. Chronique des activités criminelles du camp et des victimes des chambres à gaz, son Liure des Morts peut les conduire à leur perte. Les deux hommes tentent de récupérer le précieux objet mais, surpris par Kleinmann, Isaac est tué. Le carnet semble définitivement perdu. Mais que sait-on réellement de Jacob et d'Isaac ? Sont-ils vraiment les héros que l'on croit ? Et si Le Livre des Morts venait à resurgir, que dévoilerait-il ?

Le mythe d'Isaac Becker

6 août 1998: le détective Moe Prager reçoit un appel qui pourrait bien lui permettre de résoudre l'affaire qui les hante, sa femme et lui, depuis vingt ans et menace de faire imploser leur famille.

28 janvier 1978: autre époque, autre coup de fil. Tout juste forcé de quitter la police suite à une blessure, Moe Prager se voit proposer d'enquêter sur la disparition d'un étudiant apparemment sans histoire, Patrick Maloney, par le père de celui-ci, un homme plein de morgue. Interrogeant sans relâche les connaissances et la si charmante soeur aînée du jeune homme, suivant ses traces dans les lieux phares du New York underground des années punk, Moe se fait une image de lui qui ne cadre pas avec celle, lisse et souriante, que les parents Maloney ont placardée dans tout New York. Mais découvrir qui est réellement Patrick suffira-t-il à le retrouveroe 
Passé et présent s'entremêlent à un rythme haletant pour faire le jour sur une obscure affaire et sur des êtres ténébreux qui n'ont pas encore livré tous leurs secrets.

Angle obscur

55 Stories to benefit Protect, the political lobby of the National Association to Protect Children, whose victories include the Circle of Trust act and the HERO Corps, which hires wounded veterans to assist law enforcement in hunting online predators. Contributors include Andrew Vachss, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison®, David Morrell, Laird Barron, Linda Rodriguez, Charles de Lint, Hilary Davidson, Joe R. Lansdale, Joelle Charbonneau, Reed Farrel Coleman, SJ Rozan, and Alison Arngrim. 600 pages of fiction of all genres, poems and art, essays and memoirs, to fund one cause: to protect children from abuse and exploitation of all kinds.  Table of Contents: When!? by Linda Sarah The Questions by Alison Arngrim City Water by Allison Glasgow Black and White and Red All Over by David Morrell Silvia Reyes by P. J. Ward Plan B by Andrew Vachss Gatekeeper by Richard Prosch The Night Watch by Susan Schorn One Night in Brownsville by Gary Phillips Silverfish by S. J. Rozan Parental Guidance by Scott Adlerberg Superhero, With Crooked Nails by Rachael Acks Angel by Terrence McCauley Mr. Nance by Linda Rodriguez Something I Said by Bracken MacLeod El Puente by Rios de la Luz Mesquite by Graham Wynd Level 5 by C. R. Jahn On the Road to La Grange by Karina Cooper Reprisals: Enmity by John A. Curley The Whistler in the Graveyard by Chad Eagleton (illustration by Dyer Wilk) Solar Highway by S. A. Solomon Jibber Jabber by Reed Farrel Coleman Doll: A Poem by Jyl Anais Ion (illustrations by Jyl Anais Ion) Doggone Justice by Joe R. Lansdale The Occurrence of the Black Mirror by Teel James Glenn Sister Cecilia by Hilary Davidson Croatoan by Harlan Ellison® Little Howl on the Prairie by Thomas Pluck Things Held Dear by Neliza Drew 49 Foot Woman Straps It On by Laird Barron Moon Over the Midwest by Elizabeth Amber Love Sixth Floor by Albert Tucher Adamsville by Clare Toohey Point of View by Will Graham High Meadow Storm by Wayne Dundee Out of Context by Joelle Charbonneau Lone by Alex Segura (illustrations by Dennis Calero) Love and Valour on 'the Victorian Titanic' by Gill Hoffs Just Pretend by Martyn Waites Freak by Charles de Lint The New Heroes of the Old Fairgrounds by K. L. Pereira When the Hammer Comes Down by Josh Stallings Stretching Fifteen by Angel Luis Colón Bounty by Jerry Bloomfield Light-Bringer by Laura K. Curtis Hercules and the Spawn of the Titans by Michael A. Black How to Paint Your Dragon by Andrew D'Apice Don't Fear the Ripper by Holly West Two Views by Tim Daly A Hundred Pearls by Errick Nunnally Snapshots by Christopher Irvin Deceit by Joyce Carol Oates The Perfect Weapon by Zak Mucha An Open Letter to the Children of the Secret by Dionysios Dionou Behavior is Truth by Gwyndyn T. Alexander Pigeons for Protect! by Linda Sarah

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Gulliver Dowd is a little person in a world of hurt. After his sister, an NYPD policewoman, is murdered, he becomes a licensed PI. Dowd is shocked to discover that his mysterious new client is Nina, his high-school girlfriend and the one true love of his life. But the real surprise is yet to come. Nina hires Gulliver to find her runaway daughter, convincing him to take the case only when she confesses that the missing girl is Dowd's daughter too, the product of their high-school romance. 

When he takes the case, Dowd must travel from an exclusive girls' academy to a Mafia don's mansion to seek the answer to his newfound daughter's disappearance. But all is not what it seems. What is the real surprise awaiting Gulliver Dowd?

Dirty Work

It all begins when PI Gulliver Dowd is approached by Ellis Torres, a street kid, on Valentino Pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Ellis has lost his dog, and after Gulliver helps to find the dog for him, they go their separate ways. So when Ellis is discovered beaten, unconscious and left for dead not far from the pier early the following morning, Gulliver is horrified-and suspicious. He sets out to find the attacker and learn why the boy was targeted. What Gulliver uncovers by way of bizarre clues-amidst threats of danger to himself and his loved ones-leads him on his most curious case yet. Undeniably, there is something amiss at Valentino Pier.

Valentino Pier

Fin des années 80 dans un quartier imaginaire de New York nommé « Soul Patch ». Moe Prager, ancien flic reconverti dans le commerce de spiritueux, s'apprête à ouvrir avec son frère Aaron sa troisième cave à vin.
Le soir de l'inauguration, Larry MacDonald, un ancien collègue devenu chef des détectives à la Police de New York, lui remet un mystérieux enregistrement. Celui-ci renferme la déposition d'une petite frappe qui pour se défendre balance le nom d'un ancien caïd de la drogue assassiné vingt ans plus tôt. Jusque-là rien extraordinaire.
Pourquoi Larry MacDonald sollicite-t-il Moe Prager ? Pourquoi ce flic expérimenté disparaît-il subitement ?
Moe Prager, en proie à l'ennui et à un mariage qui se délite, va se lancer dans une affaire qui va réveiller de bien vieux fantômes.

Love and Fear - A Gulliver Dowd Mystery

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