Les Enquêtes de Lexi Carmichael - La série

Me and the legendary Zimmerman twins--it's a friendship made in geek heaven. And it all started back when I worked for the NSA... My best friend Basia dragged me to the beach for her idea of a vacation. All those annoying people, sand in embarrassing places--not exactly R & R for a girl who doesn't like the sun, the ocean or bathing suits. I couldn't wait to get back to work. But things started looking up when I ran into Elvis and Xavier Zimmerman. We discovered we had a lot in common: gaming, anchovies, hacking. After that, the vacation was perfect--until I accidentally broke some poor guy's fingers. Then Broken-Fingered Guy disappeared, and things got really dicey. With the Secret Service and a bunch of thugs suddenly after me, all I wanted was to solve the mystery and enjoy what was left of my vacation--preferably alive. Prequel to No One Lives Twice.

Moi, c'est Lexi Carmichael, super geekette. Je passe mes journées à arrêter les pirates informatiques à la NSA, l'Agence pour la Sécurité nationale. Mes nuits ? J'essaie d'éviter ma mère et j'avale des céréales en guise de dîner. J'ai beau travailler pour une agence ultra confidentielle, je n'ai jamais participé à des courses-poursuites infernales, jamais siroté de martini ( mélangé à la cuillère, et non pas au shaker, contrairement à James Bond) ni décoché de flèche empoisonnée avec un parapluie. Jusqu'à aujourd'hui, en tout cas, car deux voyous armés de revolvers ont fait irruption dans ma vie et ma meilleure amie a disparu. J'ai donc demandé un coup de main aux jumeaux Zimmerman - les mystérieux créateurs des réseaux électroniques les plus sensibles d'Amérique - pour naviguer dans un labyrinthe déconcertant et tâcher de retrouver sa trace. Sur ma route, je vais croiser un agent secret sexy et un avocat riche et séduisant qui, ma foi, ont bien l'air de craquer tous les deux pour moi. Piratage informatique, espionnage, espions canon, voilà le rêve d'une geekette qui devient réalité. Mais c'est sans compter sur ces deux brutes armées jusqu'aux dents...

Moi, c'est Lexi Carmichael, ex-hackeuse très bien rémunérée par l'Agence pour la Sécurité Nationale pour laquelle je travaillais. Mais une série d'événements extraordinaires m'a conduite à abandonner ma vie dédiée au gouvernement pour tout recommencer à zéro au sein d'une nouvelle société, et ce, sous les ordres de Finn Shaughnessy, mon boss hyper sexy. Bon d'accord, ça ne se fait pas de craquer pour son supérieur, mais lui aussi semble avoir un gros faible pour moi. Si seulement tout n'était pas aussi compliqué... Darren Greening, chercheur de génie qui travaille pour Flow Technologies – notre premier client ! – a disparu, et son chef croit que j'ai quelque chose à voir là-dedans. Et ce n'est pas le seul : le type qui a failli me tordre le cou dans le parking semble du même avis... Me voilà donc empêtrée dans une affaire dangereuse et complexe. Je vais devoir faire appel à mes talents de geekette et demander un petit coup de main à mes amis pour tâcher d'éclaircir le mystère de la disparition de Darren avant que Le Tordeur de Cou ne revienne me faire un petit coucou... Description VO : SWFG: Single, White, Female, Geek. That’s me, Lexi Carmichael, a reformed hacker who was gainfully employed by the National Security Agency. But a series of extraordinary events led me to leave government life behind for a fresh start with a brand-new company and an incredibly sexy boss, Finn Shaughnessy. It may not be kosher to have the hots for your boss, but he seems to have the hots for me, too. If only things didn’t get so complicated… Darren Greening, a genius researcher from Flow Technologies (our first client!) is missing, and his bosses think I’m involved. And they aren’t the only ones—the man who nearly snapped my neck in the parking garage thinks so, too. Now I’m caught in the middle of a complex and dangerous case. I’ll have to use all my geek skills and a little help from my friends to solve the mystery of Darren’s disappearance before Neck-Snapping-Man makes a return visit…

Il paraît que tous les chemins mènent à Rome, mais le mien m’a conduite directement vers un cadavre et un tas d’emmerdes. L’Italie était peut-être une destination un peu extrême (et lointaine) pour aller me cacher après un rencard catastrophique. Mais lorsque Slash le hacker super sexy m’a demandé de l’accompagner à Rome pour une enquête, le timing était parfait. Entre la découverte d’un cadavre, mon enlèvement avorté et un fichier crypté top secret que je ne parviens pas à craquer, ma pauvre vie sentimentale est vite devenue le cadet de mes soucis. Quand le temps vient à manquer, je n’ai d’autre choix que d’appeler les légendaires jumeaux Zimmerman et Basia, ma meilleure amie qui parle couramment italien, pour décrypter le code. En attendant, si quelqu’un pouvait me dire si Slash flirte réellement avec moi, ou si nos baisers sont juste un passe-temps de vacances, ça m’arrangerait. En somme, juste une semaine ordinaire dans la vie de la geekette Lexi Carmichael. #Espionne #Enquête #CosyMystery Description VO : A Lexi Carmichael Mystery Italy might seem like a long way to go to hide after a disastrous date. But when sexy uberhacker Slash (no, that's not his real name) asks me to go with him to Rome on an investigation, the timing is sort of perfect. My messed-up love life becomes the least of my worries, though, after the dead body, the near-kidnapping and the discovery of a top secret encrypted file that even I can't hack. With time running out, there's only one thing to do: call in the legendary Zimmerman twins and my best fluent-in-Italian friend, Basia, to crack the code. Now if only someone could help me solve the mystery of whether Slash is flirting, or if all the kissing is just one of those "when in Rome" things... But when we finally uncover the secret someone would kill to keep, it's up to me to solve the case and save the lives of my best friends. Just another week in the life of geek-girl Lexi Carmichael. Read about Lexi's previous adventures in No One Lives Twice, No One to Trust and No Money Down.

Lexi Carmichael aide les geeks du monde entier à s’envoyer en l’air. Bon, d’accord, les apparences sont trompeuses, mais c’est pourtant bien ce qui se déroule dans l’émission de télé-réalité « Pour l’amour du Geek » sur laquelle on m’a demandé à moi, Lexi Carmichael, super geekette, d’enquêter. Je ne suis pas fan de télé-réalité ; j’ai déjà du mal à gérer ma réalité à moi. Mais on m’a envoyée à Hollywood pour trouver un hacker qui trafique les résultats des votes en ligne. Alors que se passe-t-il quand j’arrive là-bas ? Eh bien, les producteurs me convainquent de poursuivre mon investigation de l’intérieur. Et ce qui aurait dû être une traque de hacker simple comme bonjour tourne au vinaigre lorsque le coupable décide de me prendre pour cible. Ajoutez à cela une chaîne télé obsédée par l’audimat, une bande de candidats ringards et ma pauvre vie sentimentale embrouillée... et démêler ce mystère pourrait bien faire de moi une star... ou me faire tuer. #Geek #Enquête #Téléréalité #Hacker #RomanceContemporaine --- « Une lecture drôle et distrayante. » - Lectrice Amazon « J’ai adoré ! Une de mes séries préférées, ce titre m’a fait mourir de rire ! » - Lectrice Goodreads « J’adore cette série, si vous êtes fan de chick-lit et de mystères, c’est fait pour vous ! » - Lectrice Goodreads Description VO : Lexi Carmichael: helping geeks everywhere get some. Okay, so it's not exactly as it seems, but that's what's happening on the dating reality show called Geeks Get Some that I, geek extraordinaire Lexi Carmichael, have been called to work on. Not that I'm a fan of reality shows (I can barely deal with my own reality). Still, I've been sent to Hollywood to find a hacker who's screwing with the results of the show's online voting system. So what happens when I get there? Well, the producers convince me to continue my investigation from the inside. And what should be an easy hunt for the hacker turns ugly when he sets his sights on me. Add to that a studio obsessed with ratings, a bunch of nerdy contestants, and my own confusing love life, and unraveling this mystery might make me a star…or get me killed. Meet Lexi for the very first time in No One Lives Twice!

Le pire cauchemar d’un geek : retourner au lycée. Retourner au lycée n’était pas vraiment le rêve de ma vie – la toute première fois, déjà, ça avait tourné au cauchemar. Alors pourquoi y remettre les pieds pour une mission secrète ? Parce que l’univers adore me faire des blagues. Je dois passer en mode 21 Jump Street pour arrêter les élèves qui piratent le système informatique et déclenchent des catastrophes.Ce nouveau boulot ne me réjouit guère, mais au moins ça m’évite de me focaliser sur le fait que, ça y est, j’ai un petit ami. Et je n’ai pas la moindre idée de ce que je vais lui offrir pour Noël ! Mais tomber sur un groupe de hackeurs internationaux n’était pas vraiment au programme. Pourquoi s'intéressent-ils à un petit lycée de Washington D.C. ? Dans quoi me suis-je fourrée, au juste ?

Quand le passé revient pour se venger, c’est mon futur qui est en danger... Ma mère n’a toujours eu qu’un seul objectif dans la vie : me voir heureuse en ménage, moi, Lexi Carmichael, geekette de génie. Du coup, quand j’ai amené Slash, mon premier petit ami, dîner chez mes parents pour le leur présenter, j’ai frôlé le malaise. Et la situation a encore dégénéré quand des balles se sont mises à voler au-dessus de notre soupe de maïs. Et voilà que, maintenant, toutes les agences gouvernementales me demandent de les aider à arrêter l’instigateur de cette attaque : Johannes Broodryk, cybermercenaire dont j’avais déjoué les plans lors de ma dernière mission. Il veut se venger et m’a pris quelque chose pour s’assurer que je vais jouer le jeu. Eh bien, que la fête commence, je suis à fond ! Mais le gouvernement a sa petite idée derrière la tête et Slash n’est pas sur la même longueur d’onde. Tout n’est pas tout rose au paradis. J’ai beau être plus à l’aise avec l’informatique qu’avec les commandos, on m’a pourtant collé une équipe de marines pour faire tomber Broodryk. La question est : me survivront-ils assez longtemps pour résoudre ses énigmes codées et sauver la situation ? #Geek #Enquête #CyberTerrorisme #Hacker #RomanceContemporaine « Un de mes tomes préférés de la série. Rempli d’action du début à la fin et comme d’habitude, Lexi arrive à la rescousse ! » - Lectrice Goodreads « J’ai adoré ! Une de mes séries préférées, ce titre m’a fait mourir de rire ! » - Lectrice Goodreads « J’adore cette série, si vous êtes fan de chick-lit et de mystères, c’est fait pour vous ! » - Lectrice Goodreads Description VO : My mother's life goal has been to see me, geek extraordinaire Lexi Carmichael, happily married. So bringing my first boyfriend, Slash, home for dinner has me hyperventilating. Things get a lot worse when bullets start flying over our corn chowder. Now the entire alphabet soup of government agencies want my help finding the man behind the attack—Johannes Broodryk, a cyber mercenary I foiled on my last case. He wants revenge and he’s taken something of mine to ensure I’ll play, so it’s game on. But the government has its own agenda, and Slash is not on board with the plan. Things are a bit bumpy in paradise. Although I'm more comfortable with computer code than commandos, I've been assigned a team of navy SEALs to help bring Broodryk down. The question is, will they survive me long enough to solve his cryptic puzzles and save the day?

Une nouvelle aventure épique attend Lexi. Sa mission : protéger la puce électronique des pirates qui les suivent, ses amis, son patron et elle... et survivre au milieu de la jungle. Mais comment une geek comme elle peut survivre sans avoir accès à sa technologie préférée ? Elle est sur le point de le découvrir. Et cette fois, il n'y a pas de place pour l'erreur. Description VO : Trouble follows me, Lexi Carmichael, like a little black cloud. At least according to my boyfriend, Slash: brilliant hacker, national treasure and vault of secrets. Even I have to admit he could be right. After a series of high-profile cases at my cyberintelligence firm, I was looking forward to a simple job. All I had to do was personally deliver a revolutionary microchip to a manufacturing plant in Indonesia. Easy, right? Wrong. Someone else wants the design and is willing to kill to get it. A failed hijacking attempt lands me, my best friend Basia and our boss, Finn, in the middle of the jungle. Our mission is clear: protect the microchip design from the hijackers on our tail...and survive. But how can a geek girl like me survive without access to my beloved technology? I'm about to find out. And this time, there's no room for error.

Oops, I did it again… Leave it to me, Lexi Carmichael, to become a target for an elite organization of cyber criminals simply by being in the wrong place at the right time. As if I weren't already freaking out about planning my best friend's bachelorette party, I now have to keep my eyes peeled for people trying to kill me. After accidentally intercepting a dangerous hack into the NSA and discovering the involvement of a foreign country in said hack, things begin to get seriously complicated. Diplomats, danger and spies, oh, my! With Slash and my loyal friends by my side, I'm in a race against time to stop a team of sophisticated hackers on a deadly mission. My team of geeks is brilliant…but derailing an international plot for revenge will take everything we've got.

Although I never expected it, my work as a computer geek has me traveling around the world, solving mysteries and fighting bad guys. Sometimes with my friends, but always with trouble by my side. So you'd think by now, I would've expected to be plagued by danger when I headed to Egypt with my best friend, Elvis Zimmerman, and boyfriend, Slash, to help track down Elvis's missing and estranged father. Nope. Genius runs in the family, and we quickly discovered Elvis's father is hot on the trail of an ancient and elusive artifact. One that people are willing to kill to find. Tombs, tablets, scarabs, and code come together as we follow a set of clues that has been waiting millennia to be discovered. Cracking code is my speciality, but I never expected to tackle one from fifteen hundred years before the advent of written language. But the sands of time are running out. We are facing death as it was before the pyramids even existed. If the artifact falls into the wrong hands, we won't be able to rewrite history. So it's up to us to find and safeguard the secret to ensure no living soul ever encounters it...again.

Geek girl Lexi Carmichael has tackled her share of formidable tasks, but nothing quite as daunting as serving as maid of honor at her best friend’s wedding When I agreed to stand by my best friend, Basia, on her big day, I had no idea what I was in for. Bouquets and unflattering evening wear I can handle. But between disgruntled dates, a beach venue and suspicious packages, what else can go wrong? Oh, right—my parents don’t know I’ve moved in with Slash. Oops? Thankfully, I’ve got everything semi under control, at least as far as Basia and Xavier know. They can leave for their honeymoon happy, knowing Elvis, Slash and I will keep things safe at home. Meanwhile, Elvis and Xavier’s boss at ComQuest has asked X-Corp—well, me—to take a quick trip to retrieve a sensitive company package from the British Virgin Islands. No hacking involved. Just show up, accept the package and bring it home safely. A cushy assignment, and a safe one. Right? Wrong. Things start to unravel the minute I set foot on the boat to the island. Before I know it, I’m up to my neck in thugs, sand and trouble. I’m going to have to work fast to stop the bad guys before the sun sets for good on this unexpected beach vacation… And don’t miss the rest of Julie Moffett’s Lexi Carmichael Mysteries: No One Lives Twice, No One To Trust, No Money Down, No Place Like Rome, No Biz Like Showbiz, No Test for the Wicked, No Woman Left Behind, No Room for Error, No Strings Attached and No Living Soul, available now from Carina Press!

An engagement is supposed to be a fun, exciting time in a girl’s life. But things are never that easy for Slash and me. Instead, someone is threatening to expose Slash’s past—a past so secret, even I know very little about it. Before I can get used to the weight of Nonna’s antique ring on my finger, he’s on his way to Rome…and we’re farther apart than we’ve ever been. Still, I have no intention of sitting at home and letting him take on the Vatican by himself. With a little expert-level hacking, I learn Slash is keeping secrets from me. Big ones. Dangerous ones. In fact, the more I dig into Slash’s past, the more I discover things about him I never knew—things that eventually pit us against each other. From Rome to the Amalfi Coast to the highest levels of the Vatican, we both race to discover the truth. No matter what I find, we’re officially a team now, so I won’t let him face this alone. Even if I don’t know if our relationship can survive it.

One last fling (with danger) before the ring? Nothing’s that simple when you’re a geek girl. Julie Moffett’s beloved Lexi Carmichael mystery series returns with No Questions Asked. Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time. Weddings aren’t my thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his daughter’s wedding planner. I’m going to have the wedding of the year…whether I like it or not. Before we can say I do, Slash and I are flying off to the Brazilian rain forest. Our mission: stop hackers from stealing a vaccine that could save millions of lives. I thought it’d be easy, but from the moment we step off the plane, I’m up to my neck in trouble. After an attack by drug-runners, being kidnapped and discovering that the bad guy is even worse than we’d imagined, I’m pretty sure someone in our group is working for the enemy. And they’re succeeding. I’ll have to use all my geek skills to stop the bad guys if I’m going to make it home in time to tie that knot. And don’t miss the rest of Julie Moffett’s Lexi Carmichael Mysteries, available now from Carina Press: No Stone Unturned, No One Lives Twice, No One to Trust, No Money Down, No Place Like Rome, No Biz Like Showbiz, No Test for the Wicked, No Woman Left Behind, No Room for Error, No Strings Attached, No Living Soul and No Regrets. This book is approximately 110,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!

Geek girl Lexi Carmichael thought meeting the in-laws would be easy as long as they met on neutral ground and she was fully prepared with a spreadsheet full of etiquette dos and don’ts. But unfortunately for Lexi, things don’t always turn out as she planned. Meeting the in-laws is a daunting task even for those who are outgoing and socially capable. Since I’m neither, the prospect of meeting Slash’s parents has me scared to death. Somehow, he convinced me it would be easier meeting my in-laws for the first time at his brother’s wedding during Christmas in Italy instead of at our own church wedding in the spring. He also suggested bringing my parents along to meet them, too. That way it would reduce the chance of any unnecessary drama at our nuptials. Sounds reasonable, right? Wrong. When Slash got busy at work, I inherited his responsibility of planning some activities for the wedding party. A mysterious Italian castle, located on an island not far from the wedding venue, and supposedly filled with puzzles and challenges no one has ever been able to solve, caught my eye. Despite being built by a highly reclusive Italian billionaire who rarely permitted anyone other than carefully selected individuals to participate in the castle challenges, my impromptu request for the wedding party to visit the island was accepted. So, off we go to Italy with my parents in tow. I’m hoping everyone will be too busy talking to each other and enjoying the castle activities to notice me much. But the castle is not all that it seems to be, and suddenly the stakes are a lot higher than expected. Will we survive the challenge as a family, or will there be no escape?

Getting married to Slash in the church was supposed to be a joyous occasion and a chance for our families to get together and celebrate. We left no wedding detail to chance, hiring the same wedding planner the president recently used for his daughter’s wedding. Between the wedding planner, my mom, my best friend, and the Secret Service, I felt confident we were prepared for every possible contingency. I secretly begged my little black cloud of trouble to take the week off. Yet, even the best laid plans can go awry…or get smashed, pulverized and blown to pieces. When total chaos erupts, it becomes increasingly clear someone is using our wedding as an opportunity for their own nefarious agenda. But who is the target and why? More importantly, how do we stop them? Soon it’s a race against time to find the dangerous mastermind and thwart his vile plans. From the White House to the Vatican to a small church in rural Maryland, someone is determined to stop us from getting married. But suddenly, we’re not just fighting the bad guys. The media, paparazzi, and public-at-large have got wind of the story and are determined to uncover the identities of the powerful couple at the center of the international media whirlwind. It’s going to take everything we’ve got, including the help of our family and friends, to get us to the church on time…preferably alive.