Trompe la mort (Seuil Policiers) (French Edition)

En rentrant d'un concert, l'avocat Byrne Hollander et sa femme Susan, une romancière, surprennent deux inconnus venus cambrioler leur riche demeure et se font assassiner. Grâce Г certains indices, la police identifie les coupables qu'elle retrouve morts plusieurs jours après dans un taudis. Ils se sont entretués. L'affaire est classée. Pourtant, Matt Scudder, le privé sans licence, ne tarde pas Г s'y intéresser. Tout commence par une réflexion de son assistant'' T.J. qui lui conseille de rencontrer Lia Parkman, une cousine de Kristin Hollander, la fille du couple assassiné. La jeune femme laisse entendre qu'elle aurait pu commanditer ce meurtre pour hériter de ses parents. Si ses premières investigations infirment cette thèse, Scudder trouve suffisamment de bizarreries dans cette histoire pour s'y impliquer davantage, surtout lorsque cette cousine étrange est retrouvée morte dans sa baignoire. '' '' Byrne and Susan Hollander stroll home from a concert on a fine summer's evening in New York. Some hours later, their daughter Kristin arrives home to discover her parents brutally killed and the house ransacked. She also finds she is now a very young millionaire. A few days later the police trace the two killers to an apartment in Coney Island and both are dead. One killed the other before turning the gun on himself. At least that's the way it looks. So that's that. Another case solved. But for Matt Scudder it's only the beginning. The more he looks into it, the more things look wrong to him. There's a murderer out there, and he's just getting started. Pitted in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Scudder is up against the most resourceful and diabolical killer of his career When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. Then the killers turn up dead in a locked room in Brooklyn. Matt Scudder invesitgates the case and senses the presence of a third man, a puppet master A wealthy couple stroll home after attending a concert. Some hours later, they are found dead, brutally murdered. The police think they know who the killers are, but Scudder, who was also at the concert, thinks differently.