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Julien Stifer, lieutenant à la SPCUM

(Julien Stifer, Montreal police lieutenant)

Sanguine is a novel you have to read at night, in one sitting, hiding under the bed covers, flashlight in hand. Strong emotions guaranteed. aXe

Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne

Julien Stifer is a lieutenant in the Montreal police. Two years ago, his daughter Chloe mysteriously disappeared. Since then, the lieutenant has moved heaven and earth to find her, fearing each dead teenager reported is his daughter. Stifer is still the worried father when he goes to the Montreal neighbourhood of Côte-des-Neiges where a teenage girl and her lover, a small-time drug pusher, have been savagely murdered. Sanguine was barely sixteen years old and Julien sees Chloe in her, the daughter who perhaps, he fears, has suffered a similar fate. Stifer throws himself frantically into the investigation. First, he focuses on the drug lead, but after discovering disturbing pictures featuring Sanguine, he begins to think that he was wrong and that the murders may be related to certain sexual perversions more than to a simple settling of accounts. But as the lieutenant uncovers new clues and gets closer to the conclusion of his investigation, his father's concern gives way to abject horror, then by enormous rage...

Jacques Bissonnette Sanguine 244 pages, $12.95

The crime novel machine is working full tilt. We are caught up in the suspense and carried through more than three hundred pages without a second of boredom. Lettres québécoises

Illustration : Jacques Lamontagne

Her name is Anémone Laurent, she has a degree in juvenile criminology and she has just been hired by the homicide department of the Montreal police, but she has trouble fitting in. Lieutenant Stifer, an experienced detective, has confidence in her though, and along with Mancini and Bernard they investigate the death of Claudia, a young homeless girl murdered in a park in a poor downtown neighbourhood. Anémone quickly discovers that the girl, who did drugs and practised body piercing, was a one of a trio of inseparable friends with Nancy and Dahlia. Then Nancy's corpse turns up in a deserted squat, and Dahlia, nicknamed Gueule d'Ange (Angel Face), has been missing for two weeks! Now a frantic race begins to find Angel Face before the murderer does. And while the investigators plunge into Montreal's most sordid slums, Anémone suddenly sees a shadow emerging from her past, a shadow she thought had disappeared forever...

Jacques Bissonnette Gueule d'Ange 337 pages, $14.95

Illustration : Laurine Spehner

In Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, an Algerian immigrant, Ismaël Gunaratna, has been found decapitated in his apartment. The investigation is assigned to Lieutenant Julien Stifer and his assistant, Anémone Laurent. They very soon come to favour the hypothesis of a terrorist cell headed by a heroin trafficker known as Barberousse (Redbeard). In the mountainous regions of Pakistan close to the border with Afghanistan, a young Muslim named Nabil is given a divine mission by the Chosen of the Mountain. In order to fulfill this mission, Nabil must go back to Montreal, the city where he grew up and whose loose morals he abhors. While the homicide department of the Montreal police is desperately trying to understand why Gunaratna has been killed, Nabil is getting ever closer to the city, so that the Badal can begin, a vicious vengeance against all of America!

Jacques Bissonnette Badal 432 pages, $15.95