18 books like Bareback

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Post-mortem Jon Wells · 2009 · ★ 3.3 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A jogger is running near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario when he stumbles across a near- mummified skeleton in a field. The skeletal remains are studied at the Hamilton morgue by a forensic pathologist, a forensic anthropologist, and a forensic entomologist (known as "the bug lady". The victim is female, non-Caucasian. But who is she? Enter Hamilton… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Heart-beast Tanith Lee · 1992 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A shapeshifter prowls England's countryside, driven by its primal killing instincts and desire for a woman, in this dark fantasy horror.World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award–winning authorAfter committing a crime of passion, Daniel Vehmund fled his English family farm to disappear into the Far East, wracked with guilt for abandoning his mother in the wake of his violence. Then,… Shares: Loups-garous, Werewolves

Death by his grace Kwei Quartey · 2017 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Katherine Yeboah's marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye is all the talk of Accra high society. But when it becomes apparent that Katherine is infertile, Solomon's extended family accuses her of being a witch, hounding her until the relationship is so soured Solomon feels compelled to order Katherine out of the house they shared. Alone on her last night there, Katherine is brutally murdered by an… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Written in Bone Simon Beckett · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Written in Bone is a novel written by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2007. It is the second novel to feature Dr. David Hunter. Set in the Outer Hebrides, this crime novel features forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter. In this volume, he is called in to examine a badly burned body found in a deserted house on a small island while contending with both… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Who Buries the Dead C. S. Harris · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Investigating the brutal murder of a socially ambitious plantation owner in early 19th-century London, Sebastian St. Cyr discovers a link between the case and the 17th-century beheading of King Charles. "London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, into a macabre and… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Sound of Broken Glass Deborah Crombie · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie’s The Sound of Broken Glass, a captivating mystery that blends a murder from the past with a powerful danger in the present.When Detective Inspector James joins forces with Detective Inspector Melody Talbot to solve the murder of an esteemed barrister, their investigation leads them to realize that nothing… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Savage Transformation Lexxie Couper · 2010 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate She thought she had a life—until being hunted shows her she's never really lived.Jacqueline Huddart has spent her entire adult life on the run. Not from the law, or even a jealous lover. From herself—and what she is; a creature of myth and ancient legacy. Now her best friend has disappeared and finding her means Jackie must confront the truth of her past…and accept the help of a mysterious,… Shares: Loups-garous, Werewolves

Phantom evil Heather Graham · 2011 · ★ 4.4 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Return to where it all started: New Orleans, the birthplace of the Krewe of Hunters, the FBI’s elite paranormal investigation unit. Rediscover the first case in book 1 of the New York Times bestselling series, only from Heather Graham. Though haunted by the recent deaths of two teammates, Jackson Crow knows that it’s the living who commit the most heinous crimes. As a police officer using her… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Where Shadows Dance C. S. Harris · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Sebastian St. Cyr finds himself in the realm of international intrigue when he investigates the murder of a foreign office diplomat--a murder his reluctant bride-to-be, Hero Jarvis, knows something about. Set in Regency London: July, 1812. Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

The Burning Room Michael Connelly · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Feral Sins Suzanne Wright · 2013 · ★ 3.5 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Awesome, page turning Shares: Loups-garous, Werewolves

Time of departure Douglas Schofield · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Florida state prosecutor Claire Talbot is as tough as they come, and not everyone loves her for it. Newly promoted Felony Division Chief, Claire has about as many jealous detractors as she does supporters. Some colleagues are openly skeptical about her youth, her abilities, and even her gender. When a highway project construction crew unearths two skeletons in a common grave, Claire reopens an… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Bad Blood Levine, Richard M. · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Details the shocking murders--in Terra Linda, California--of Jim and Naomi Olive by their sixteen-year-old daughter, Marlene, and her nineteen-year-old boyfriend, small-time drug dealer Chuck Riley Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Fire Touched Patricia Briggs · 2016 Mercy Thompson has been hailed as “a heroine who...always remains true to herself” (Library Journal). Now she’s back, and she’ll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it’s the children who suffer...   Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they… Shares: Loups-garous, Werewolves

Deadly Wedding Kate Parker · 2016 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate New Cover. Corrections to Americanisms. Same great story. It's a challenge finding a killer when everyone in the family wanted the old man dead.Spring, 1938. Olivia Denis is ridiculed by her aristocratic, wealthy cousins. A weekend spent in their ancient mansion for an extravagant wedding feels like torture.On the morning of the wedding, the bride's grandfather is found brutally murdered. Then… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

The Sittaford Mystery Agatha Christie · 1931 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn't it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn't it? If they're… Shares: Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Murder in America Stephen T. Holmes · 1994 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "A major revision of the best-selling Murder in America, this Second Edition examines both common and unusual acts of homicide in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. The authors, Ronald and Stephen Holmes, have worked with numerous police departments on more than 300 murder and rape cases. They have authored a variety of books and written many articles addressing… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Whiskey Beach Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 498p · ≈ 16h · Moderate For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore—and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home… A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of—but never arrested for—the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is… Shares: Enquêtes, Investigation, Murder

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