Smokey Dalton vit maintenant à Chicago. Un soir, alors qu'il rentre accompagné de la jolie Laura Hathaway, seule Blanche à avoir assisté au gala donné par Ella Fitzgerald en faveur des enfants orphelins de la communauté noire, il entend des gémissements venant de l'appartement de sa voisine... Dans ce polar éblouissant d'intelligence et d'humanité, Kris Nelscott évoque le drame des avortements, formellement interdits en cette fin des années 1960, qui se terminent à l'hôpital où, souvent, les médecins saisissent l'occasion pour stériliser ces femmes.

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"Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author." SalonChicago, 1969: The trial of eight protestors from the Democratic Convention the previous year has the whole world watching-and all of Chicagoland on edge. Smokey Dalton feels the pressure: more cops on the streets, more FBI in his neighborhood. But when the landlord at one of Sturdy Investments' South Side properties dies alone in his apartment, Smokey agrees to investigate. He finds old human bones in the basement, along with hints of more. Smokey and his girlfriend, Sturdy's CEO Laura Hathaway, worry that Laura's father knew who used that basement and why. Without involving law enforcement, they decide to hold a thorough investigation and discover secrets they never ever imagined, secrets that could threaten Smokey, Laura, Sturdy, and one of Chicago's greatest institutions. Secrets worth killing for. "When Kris Nelscott started her impressive series about Smokey Dalton., many critics and readers wondered how long she could keep up the pace. Days of Rage, her sixth book in the Dalton series, indicates there seems to be no end in sight." -Chicago TribuneRead the whole gripping series:A Dangerous Road, Book 1Smoke-Filled Rooms, Book 2Thin Walls, Book 3Stone Cribs, Book 4War at Home, Book 5Days of Rage, Book 6Street Justice, Book 7Kris Nelscott is an open pen name used by New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The first Smokey Dalton novel, A Dangerous Road, won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery and was short-listed for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; the second, Smoke-Filled Rooms, was a PNBA Book Award finalist; and the third, Thin Walls, was one of the Chicago Tribune's best mysteries of the year. Kirkus chose Days of Rage as one of the top ten mysteries of the year and it was also nominated for a Shamus award for The Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year. Entertainment Weekly says her equals are Walter Mosley and Raymond Chandler. Booklist calls the Smokey Dalton books "a high-class crime series" and Salon says "Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author."

Days of Rage: A Smokey Dalton Novel - Smokey Dalton, #6

Rentrant d'un dîner de charité avec Laura Hathaway, la jeune et riche héritière dont il est l'amant, Smokey Dalton découvre chez sa voisine une jeune femme en train d'agoniser. A l'hôpital, le médecin de garde conclut à un avortement qui a mal tourné. Dalton va partir à la recherche des faiseurs d'anges dans les profondeurs d'un Chicago en pleine mutation, où la violence est omniprésente.

Les Faiseurs D'anges

UC Berkeley, January, 1969-In the midst of turbulent student protests on campus, a cherished building suddenly bursts into flames. Pammy Griffin, an alum who owns a women's gym nearby, heads over to check out the fire and walks straight into a troubling mystery. Who wants Berkeley to burn? Hippies? Protesters? Or someone with an even darker motive?But as Pammy investigates, she finds herself, and her gym, embroiled in a troubling turn of events. To catch the arsonist, she and members of her gym must confront some of society's most brutal, and most hidden, violence using whatever weapons they can."Nelscott recalls the era with vivid accuracy."-St. Petersburg Times

Blaming the Arsonist

Smokey Dalton, un très bel homme qui fait tourner la tête de ces dames (et pas que des Noires.), a fui Memphis pour protéger son fils adoptif, Jimmy, seul témoin à avoir réellement vu l'assassin de Martin Luther King, et donc énergiquement recherché depuis par le FBI. Sous une fausse identité, il vit maintenant à Chicago où il exerce divers petits métiers. Un soir, alors qu'il rentre chez lui accompagné de la jolie Laura Hathaway, seule Blanche à avoir assisté au gala donné par Ella Fitzgerald en faveur des enfants orphelins de la communauté noire, il entend des gémissements venant de l'appartement de sa voisine, Marvella.

 Kris Nelscott poursuit, avec les Faiseurs d'anges, le récit des formidables enquêtes de son héros, qui débutent en 1968 avec la tragique disparition du leader de la communauté noire américaine. Cette fois, elle évoque un autre drame : celui des avortements, formellement interdits, qui se terminent à l'hôpital.

 Une nouvelle fois, le lecteur suit avec passion, sur fond historique de l'Amérique de la fin des années 1960, confrontée à ses éternels démons que sont le racisme, l'apartheid et la pauvreté, les aventures de Smokey Dalton, éblouissant d'intelligence et. d'humanité.

Kris Nelscott, Américaine, est un auteur prolifique récompensé par de nombreux prix prestigieux, et publié dans une quinzaine de langues. Elle a déjà publié, à l'Aube, La Route de tous les dangers, À couper au couteau et Blanc sur noir.

Called "an outstanding series" by Booklist and "triumphant" by the Chicago Tribune, Kris Nelscott's Smokey Dalton mysteries boast numerous awards, including finalists for the Edgar and Shamus awards. The Oregonian says: "The Nelscott series setting, in the turbulent late '60s, gives her books layers of issues of racism, class, and war, all of which still seem to remain sadly timely today." And Entertainment Weekly says of the main character: "It's not hard to draw parallels between Nelscott's PI Smokey Dalton and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins, another secretive, canny black man trying to solve mysteries while circumspectly navigating the white world.  But Dalton's no knock-off.  (Would you label the hundreds of hard-boiled detectives who've appeared in Raymond Chandler's wake mere Marlow Xeroxes because they're white?)"This boxed set includes the first three books in the series: A Dangerous Road, Smoke-Filled Rooms, and Thin Walls. A Dangerous Road (Edgar Award Finalist)Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee's black community. He has almost no interaction with the white hierarchy, even though they exist only blocks away. So he's surprised the day a white woman walks into his Beale Street office. Laura Hathaway has sought him out because he's a beneficiary in her mother's will, and Laura wants to know why. So does Smokey. He's never heard of the Hathaways, but his search will take him on a journey that will change everything he's ever known. Set against the backdrop of the strike and protests that will end with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, A Dangerous Road combines the politics of race, betrayal, unexpected love, and the terrible cost of trust into a story so memorable the Mystery Writers of America chose it as one of the top five novels of the year and the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society honored it as the winner of the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery. Smoke-Filled RoomsOn the run after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Private Investigator Smokey Dalton has settled under an assumed name in Chicago. But history won't leave him alone. His job in security at the Chicago Hilton places him in the center of the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Worse, a killer works his South Side neighborhood. Smokey can't ignore the crimes, any more than he can ignore the tension building in the city that hot August. He must take action, before he loses everything. Chosen as one of the top ten mystery novels of the year by both Deadly Pleasures and Booklist. Thin WallsSmokey Dalton and Jimmy, the young boy he protects, have settled into a new life on Chicago's South Side. But when Smokey gets hired to investigate the death of a black man in a local park, he realizes that the murder might not be an isolated case.  The Chicago Police Department doesn't really investigate black deaths, particularly near the South Side. Smokey thinks the case easy, until he digs deeper into the history of the area, a history that includes gangs, racism, and secrets so dark they threaten his very existence. Chosen as one of the top ten mystery novels of the year by the Chicago Tribune.

The Smokey Dalton Boxed Set: Books 1-3 - Smokey Dalton

Fiction River readers make the call in this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. From a reluctant warrior fighting a battle in her own backyard, to a man coming to terms with the racial inequality of his youth, to a romance blooming out of adversity, Readers' Choice offers up favorite stories from the first four years of Fiction River. Spanning genre lines from historical mystery to science fiction to Regency romance, this volume proves why Adventures Fantastic says: "[Fiction River] is one of the best and most exciting publications in the field today."

Fiction River Presents: Readers' Choice - Fiction River Presents, #6

"Je savais qu'il allait arriver quelque chose, mais je ne me suis jamais douté que ce quelque chose, ce serait la mort de Martin Luther King." Nous sommes en 1968 : Smokey Dalton est détective privé, installé à Memphis. Il est Noir. Alors que le pasteur le plus célèbre d'Amérique est assassiné, une riche Blanche débarque dans le bureau et la vie de Smokey : elle voudrait savoir pourquoi sa mère a décidé de lui léguer, à lui, une part de son héritage. Entre secrets de famille, tensions raciales et violences policières, ce polar admirablement mené offre une part d'Amérique.

La route de tous les dangers

Called "an outstanding series" by Booklist and "triumphant" by the Chicago Tribune, Kris Nelscott's Smokey Dalton mysteries boast numerous awards, including finalists for the Edgar and Shamus awards. The Oregonian says: "The Nelscott series setting, in the turbulent late '60s, gives her books layers of issues of racism, class, and war, all of which still seem to remain sadly timely today." And Entertainment Weekly says of the main character: "It's not hard to draw parallels between Nelscott's PI Smokey Dalton and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins."This ebook contains a list of all of the books in the series in reading order, with covers, descriptions, reviews, and links to buy.

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