Portail des médiathèques du réseau Paris-Saclay

Suite à la disparition de la fille d'un riche banquier, on retrouve dans la propriété de celui-ci un cercueil de 20 cm environ contenant une poupée en bois sculpté. Les policiers Rebus et Siobhan suivent une double piste : celle de la colline aux chagrins où ont été retrouvés des cercueils similaires et celle de Quizmaster, un inconnu avec qui la jeune disparue jouait aux devinettes sur internet.

Strip Jack: MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets. Then Jack’s wife disappears. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why.

n the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the middle of John Rebus' turf, keeping him busy with ceremonial tasks. That quickly changes, however, when a long-dead body is discovered in a Queensbury House fireplace, a homeless man throws himself off a bridge - leaving behind a suitcase full of cash - and an up-and-coming politician is found murdered.

Mary Miller had always been an outcast. Burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community. Now, years later, she is a single mother, caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. Her son, Sandy, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a dark secret from their past, in the growing kwledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the flood.

Glasgow, octobre 1972. Quand le cadavre de Bobby Carter, avocat d'un des chefs de la pègre, est retrouvé dans une ruelle, le jeune Jack Laidlaw se charge de l'affaire, bafouant sa hiérarchie à plus d'un titre. Une aventure des débuts de l'inspecteur, rédigée à partir d'un manuscrit inachevé de W. McIlvanney. ©Electre 2022