Gilles Berton Libri

L'enquête explore les souvenirs d'enfance, données statistiques et arguments philosophiques sur les croyances et traditions liées aux relations entre hommes et animaux. L'écrivain réalise ensuite une expédition clandestine dans les élevages et usines d'abattage.

When a beautiful foreign executive is found murdered carring a photograph of Otani's daughter, son in law, and grandchild in her purse, no one is more surprised than the illustrious inspector himself. What could this gaijin want with his family? And who would want her dead? Ever the professional, Otani excuses himself from the investigation but still manages to direct operations with a few well placed questions to his strait laced staff. Naturally, the can't help wondering if Otani has personal information he's not sharing. But when his son in law suddenly disappears, the whole team hits high gear to find him, following an unholy trail through the underworld and the spirit world where passion comes at a high price.

Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -- richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines. (For a review of Kerr's latest novel, The Grid, see our Thrillers section.)

Mentre Ronnie Joe Waddell sta per salire sulla sedia elettrica, la dottoressa kay Scarpetta è intenta ai preparativi necessari per eseguirne l'autopsia. Ma la morte dell'uomo non è il solo evento di cui Kay debba occuparsi in quella fredda notte di dicembre. Poche ore prima è stato ritrovato un bambino di tredici anni col corpo orribilmente mutilato: un episodio di violenza sessuale che mostra inquietanti affinità con l'assassino per cui Waddell è stato condannato. Cosa lega questi due fatti avvenuti a più di dieci anni di distanza e ai quali faranno seguito numerosi altri delitti? Chi è lo spietato assassino? E, soprattutto, perchè Kay Scarpetta è la principale sospettata?

A sharp-witted new sleuth unravels the deadly riddles of Renaissance Italy. With his bald head and black cape, Sigismondo is an imposing figure. A marriage is arranged to end a feud between two houses, but Sigismondo must investigate when the bride disappears and her handmaid is murdered. Previous publisher: St. Martin's.

En 1936, Berlin se prépare à accueillir les jeux Olympiques d'été mais une série de disparitions risque de gâcher la fête. Lorsque la fille d'Hermann Six est assassinée, le magnat de l'acier engage l'inspecteur Bernard Gunther. Cet ancien membre de la police irrévérencieux et alcoolique tombé en disgrâce se retrouve au cœur d'un complot qui implique les plus hautes sphères du nazisme.