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    Ice Lake
    Lady Jail
    Ball Park
    Roar Back
    Zwarte beertjes - 3112: Onder het ijs
    IJstijd
    • IJstijd

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      Het is midwinter. Montreal wordt geplaagd door ijzige kou. Maar ook door gewelddadige moordaanslagen van criminele bendes. De stad dreigt in de greep te raken van de georganiseerde misdaad. Inspecteur Emile Cinq-Mars is een outsider in de politiemacht van Montreal. Hij wordt weliswaar bewonderd vanwege zijn eruditie en scherpzinnigheid, maar hij is vooral gehaat om zijn eigenzinnigheid en arrogantie. In de loop van zijn lange carrière heeft Cinq-Mars een uitgebreid netwerk van informanten opgebouwd dat hem in staat stelt gecompliceerde zaken op te lossen. Op kerstavond treft Cinq-Mars het lijk aan van een van zijn tipgevers. Op het gruwelijk mishandelde lichaam hebben de moordenaars voor Cinq-Mars een macabere boodschap achtergelaten die zich als volgt laat lezen: we hebben je infiltrant ontmaskerd en geëlimineerd... Gedreven door verontwaardiging en schuldgevoel opent Cinq-Mars de jacht op de daders, die hem naar het hart van de Canadese onderwereld voert. En naar een schemerwereld waarin niemand te vertrouwen is en waar de grenzen tussen goed en kwaad volledig zijn vervaagd...

      IJstijd
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    • Zwarte beertjes - 3112: Onder het ijs

      • 445bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Een telefoontje van een anonieme vrouw lokt de Canadese inspecteur Emile Cinq-Mars van Montreal naar een afgelegen vissersplaatsje.

      Zwarte beertjes - 3112: Onder het ijs
    • Roar Back

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      Tasked with convincing a pastor that a prisoner shouldn't be paroled by his former captain, Sergeant Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails. The consequences prove costly and it threatens to only be the beginning. An informant in the Montreal Mafia believes a gangland war is coming, and Cinq-Mars is at the heart of it.

      Roar Back
      4,1
    • Ball Park

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Quinn Tanner is a thief who finds her getaway driver dead after her latest heist. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars's first assignment after switching from the Night Patrol to the day shift is the scene of Quinn's latest crime. With their paths set to cross and others hunting for her, she goes underground. Can Cinq-Mars find her before it's too late?

      Ball Park
      4,1
    • Lady Jail

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is summoned to Quebec to investigate a murder in this locked-room mystery with a the victim is a criminal, and the suspects are already locked up . . .Quebec, 1994 . Fraud artist Abigail, the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women, is struggling to adjust to the prison's communal quarters. Her fellow inmates only give out the bare bones of their crimes, and it's quite the roll call. Doi took a hatchet to her own daughter. Malka poisoned her husband. And that's just for starters. Abigail keeps her head down, does her best to make friends with the band of killers, tries to survive.But on an ordinary, quiet day, the extraordinary a prisoner is found face-down in a toilet stall, a strangulation wire around her neck. Trouble, Abigail realises, is ahead.Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is summoned from Montreal to investigate. He put Abigail away - and now she's the prime suspect. But other, darker, forces are interested in Abigail, and Emile interferes at his own peril. For as he'll soon discover, in Lady Jail, nothing is as it seems . . .

      Lady Jail
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    • Ice Lake

      • 512bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      When a corpse is found floating in a fishing hole cut into a frozen lake in Montreal, it appears at first to be a straightforward homicide. But the victim had shadowy connections to the pharmaceutical industry and, before long, brilliant, unorthodox detective Emile Cinq-Mars realises he has a far more complex case on his hands. As Cinq-Mars delves deeper, he uncovers a horrifying web of intrigue which extends far beyond ruthless scientists to the heart of the Mob, and has enmeshing beautiful Indian activist Lucy Gabriel, who has been innocently involved in illegal experiments on AIDS patients. Finding herself the target of a vendetta to destroy those who know too much, Lucy takes revenge with the native Indians. But Cinq-Mars knows it's now a race against time and that he must find her before it's too late. And can he solve the riddle of the death cocktails before his shadowy opponents sacrifice even more vulnerable and innocent men?

      Ice Lake
      2,9
    • I Vote and I Deplore Politicians

      • 108bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen

      The book delves into the root causes of dysfunction in Washington, emphasizing the need for fundamental changes to restore hope and progress towards a more perfect union, as envisioned by the founders. It outlines immediate and long-term solutions for the current administration to implement, aiming to alter the perilous trajectory of the nation and the world. By addressing these critical issues, the author advocates for a transformative approach that can rejuvenate the country and its citizens' lives, steering them away from ongoing insecurity and stagnation.

      I Vote and I Deplore Politicians