Bücher von Keith Weaver

Dans leur village à la campagne, un jeune garçon et ses amis acceptent leur vie sans souci comme une donnée de l'existence. En plus de leur monde s'articulant autour des bicyclettes, des baignades, de la pêche, l'exploration et les âneries d'usage, le garçon développe un intérêt pour le potager familial.Des années plus tard, se rappelant plusieurs événements de sa jeunesse, l'un d'eux ressort en particulier sa visite interdite au verger de monsieur Drumlin, un des excentriques du village, au cours de laquelle il est invité, à emporter autant de fruits et légumes qu'il le désire.Celui qui un jour fut le jeune garçon, maintenant âgé de 70 ans et retraité, reçoit une invitation pour visiter à nouveau le verger de M. Drumlin. Il hésite un moment avant de se décider: Laisser intact le presque parfait souvenir d'enfance ou revivre l'expérience? Si oui, pour y faire quoi?Après mure réflexion, il tranche et sa décision entraîne une chaîne d'événements qui lui révéleront un aspect inattendu de son monde.Ou est-ce bien le cas ?

It all began when a tree demolished a doghouse during a windstorm, revealing something momentous. Initially, Steven and John thought it was a relic from a distant past, to be examined carefully, then filed away and forgotten. But that didn't happen, and chains from the past soon begin to rattle. There's truth in the statement that the past is never dead. The veil concealing the greed and excesses of logging in the nineteenth century begins to lift. One death is soon followed by others, and it quickly becomes evident that family secrets, thought to be long dead and buried, are alive and displaying robust and malicious health. Through it all, a lifelong friendship and an almost mystical connection to an old forest help lay to rest a tumultuous past and find a new way forward.

When a careless and headstrong teenager manages to drop a suitcase into a small central-Ontario lake, her obsessive need to recover it is the initial element that unleashes a chain of stressful and ominous events. But worse, much worse, is to come.The lake holds a secret, and when that secret emerges, a past that is grim and violent rises up with it. Private Investigator Mark Whelan is called in early to assist in dealing with what is thought to be a short-term and manageable problem. But the nature and scope of the unfolding situation is soon revealed to be vast, lethal, complex, and seemingly impossible to comprehend. Ultimately, Whelan and his colleague Mike Jefferson are drawn into a web that involves multiple murders, drugs, a bounty hunter, and an airplane that seems to be in two places at the same time, all linked in a way that suggests a mastermind at work.Behind all the complexity is a story whose ultimate driver surprises everyone. Learn more about Keith Weaver on his website: keithrobertweaver.com.

Ryan Chandler, a successful but apathetic student, drops out of university and is soon leading a rudderless existence. Living at home, working a dead-end part-time job, but deeply dissatisfied, he accepts a rare opportunity to pursue his own research project. Soon installed in the German city of Karlsruhe, Ryan throws himself into his project, studying aspects of the first-ever international scientific meeting and focussing on the contributions to that meeting made by one of the delegates, a man who ultimately becomes a famous Italian chemist.Aspects of his project gradually draw Ryan's interest toward Italian unification, the Risorgimento, and some of the charismatic characters involved in that struggle. But he is also attracted to a 160-year-old mystery, and it soon becomes clear that he is not the only one interested. Ryan has stumbled across something treacherous, with unknown depths. A dark violence begins to engulf Ryan's friends, his family, and himself. In Rome, hints appear as to the nature of that violence, which reveals itself in Sicily and follows him back to Karlsruhe.Sicilian Refuge weaves past and present together in a story of personal growth, loss, and retribution.

Richard Gould anticipait avec plaisir sa retraite à passer au moins une partie de son temps dans la maison ancestrale qu'il avait rénovée dans un village tranquille de l'Ontario et plus particulièrement à son projet principal : rendre ses lettres de noblesse aux ruines d'un moulin situé au bord d'une rivière.La découverte de deux vieux livres cachés dans les décombres allait donner du piquant à ce projet jusqu'à ce qu'il se produise une série d'événements d'abord bizarres, puis lugubres et bientôt mortels. Inexorablement, Richard est entraîné plus profondément dans une histoire dangereuse culminant en une rencontre meurtrière près de la ville historique de Heidelberg.