Woman Cycle

Pourquoi est-elle montée seule sur les terrasses de Corviale, la petite Sara, le soir de sa disparition ? À Rome, paralysée par des pluies torrentielles, alors que la ville se déchire pour ses deux équipes de football, les nerfs de l'inspecteur principal Mariella De Luca se trouvent de nouveau mis à rude épreuve. Macabre, cette découverte d'un petit groupe d'archéologues sur la colline du Palatino ! Du désespoir d'une jeune mère aux mouvances d'une nébuleuse pédophile, une ténébreuse affaire se tisse autour de Corviale, cet impressionnant immeuble d'un kilomètre de long construit à la fin des années 70.

Au cœur de la Ville éternelle ensevelie sous la neige, dans le très populaire et très branché quartier romain de Testaccio, une troisième jeune fille vient d'être assassinée, au beau milieu des fêtes de fin d'année. Le commissaire D'Innocenzo ne croit pas à l'hypothèse du tueur en série que les journaux se plaisent à rabâcher, mais ne sait plus comment maîtriser la peur qui gagne les habitants du quartier et cette population jeune et nombreuse qui fréquente, le soir, ses restaurants et ses discothèques, son théâtre et son cinéma.

Le matin du nouvel an, une femme disparaît. Une année auparavant, à Rome, une autre femme a disparu, mais sa fille refuse toujours de le déclarer à la police... Le début d'une nouvelle saison meurtrière ?D'une affaire à l'autre, l'inspecteur Mariella De Luca et sa coéquipière la belle Silvia Di Santo démêlent bientôt un terrible écheveau, où s'entrelacent règlements de comptes familiaux, problèmes d'argent et intrigues politiques. Où surtout, chaque fois, une voix absente semble chercher à se faire entendre... pour crier vengeance.

Saint: They call me Saint. But I'm not one. I've always lived life by my rules and my own moral code. What I did may have put me behind bars, but I don't regret it. At least not until I met her. She's the one. And my past is the one thing that may destroy our future. Cat: The MC found me. They gave me a job and I'm under their protection. But right when I start to feel safe again is when I find out there's nothing that can protect my heart. 

“Proceed as the way opens” is how William Least Heat-Moon put it in his book, River Horse. The line becomes a sort of mantra for Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth McGowan, a melanoma survivor. Having been given a five-year clean bill of health, McGowan decides to bicycle all 4,000 or so miles from America’s West to East Coast. She wants to help other melanoma victims and sets out to use her many miles to raise funds for cancer research. She also wants to better understand her late father, who died of melanoma at the age of 44, when Elizabeth was just 15.

Violence has dogged me all my life. An asshat father, a cruel foster home. Seems I’m following the same path. Only worse. I lost someone, and it hurt me bad. Drugs and street crime were all I knew. But that all ended the day I got patched. We owned Hardale, CA. It was our town. Until that firefight with the Cobras. Now, we’re laying low…or supposed to be. But a cute waitress soon changes all that. She’s beautiful, though I can't get involved. Risking my brothers is the last thing I want. Our lives are poles apart. But I want her in my bed.

No woman had ever joined the Rising Sons...until now. Raven is tough and strong, and she lives for the rush of the open road. She's trying for something that no woman has ever done, and the Rising Sons aren't going to make it easy for her. When trouble comes to the Rising Sons, though, she might be the only one man enough to stand against it. Gunner is ride or die. The club was the only thing on his mind until Raven showed up. As soon as he saw her, he had to have her. She's not just another lay to him but an equal.

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