One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most powerful.
Valérie Simpson, ex-star de la raquette, est abattue au milieu des milliers de spectateurs de l'US Open. Myron Bolitar devrait se contenter de la version officielle : « balle perdue ».
Sauf que la veille, à peine sortie d'un hôpital psychiatrique, la jeune femme avait laissé sur son répondeur un mystérieux message...
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle. By the author of The Da Vinci Code .
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey's train-wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn't who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey's father. Soon, Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.
With this new series, Coben introduces an entirely new generation of fans to the masterful plotting and wry humour that have made him an award-winning, internationally bestselling author.
The first in an exciting new series of thrillers from the master of the hook-and-twist.
Dave Robicheaux se remet de ses blessures dans une unité de soins de La Nouvelle-Orléans, où il reçoit la visite d'une jeune femme, Tee Jolie Melton. Elle lui laisse un iPod, avec le blues « My Creole Belle ». Une chanson qui, avec le souvenir de Tee Jolie, finit par l'obséder. Mais dans cette atmosphère languissante baignée de morphine, et avec tous les démons qui plus que jamais l'accompagnent, Dave nourrit des doutes : tout cela est-il bien réel ou l'a-t-il rêvé ? Car Dave découvre que Tee Jolie est censée avoir disparu depuis des mois.
Aussi, lorsque sa jeune soeur Blue est retrouvée morte congelée, Dave décide de partir à sa recherche. Une enquête éprouvante, au point que Clete Purcel, son vieil ami lui-même à la limite de la rupture, se met à craindre pour sa santé mentale...
''One of the boldest thriller writers working today'' TESS GERRITSEN ''Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled'' MICHAEL CONNELLY _________________________________________ The fourth Will Trent novel, from the #1 bestselling author When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It''s a brutal, cold-blooded murder.
All too soon, former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight - he lies dead in his cell, the words ''Not me'' scrawled across the walls.
Something about his confession doesn''t add up and, deeply suspicious of Lena Adams, the detective in charge, Sara immediately calls in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards, Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties and ties that run deep. And the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead...
_________________________________________ Crime and thriller masters know there''s nothing better than a little Slaughter:
''I''d follow her anywhere'' GILLIAN FLYNN ''Passion, intensity, and humanity'' LEE CHILD ''A writer of extraordinary talents'' KATHY REICHS ''Fiction doesn''t get any better than this'' JEFFERY DEAVER ''A great writer at the peak of her powers'' PETER JAMES ''Raw, powerful and utterly gripping'' KATHRYN STOCKETT ''With heart and skill Karin Slaughter keeps you hooked from the first page until the last'' CAMILLA LACKBERG ''Amongst the world''s greatest and finest crime writers'' YRSA SIGURARDOTTIR
The compelling new standalone novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Unseen and Cop Town. With a missing girl in the news, Claire Scott can''t help but be reminded of her sister, who disappeared twenty years ago in a mystery that was never solved. But when Claire begins to learn the truth about her sister, nothing will ever be the same.
Cette collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains. Notes en anglais en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire. Présenté par Henri Yvinec Réunion d'anciens élèves d'un lycée du New Jersey. Donny Rubel, solitaire comme dans sa jeunesse, demeure à l'écart des groupes, dissimulé derrière sa barbe, sa perruque, ses lentilles de contact colorées... Il observe Kay, un de ses anciens professeurs, mariée à présent, pour laquelle il a naguère éprouvé un certain amour... A l'issue du grand pique-nique clôturant les retrouvailles, il l'enlève dans sa camionnette et l'emmène dans sa maison de bois, dressée aux abords d'une petite clairière. Pendant qu'il travaille, elle restera là, menottée, enchaînée. Quel sort lui réserve-t-il ? Echappera-t-elle à ce dangereux maniaque ? Autant de questions qui resteront ouvertes jusqu'aux dernières lignes de cette nouvelle, typique de la manière dont la « reine du suspense » conduit l'intrigue, intimement liée à la psychologie des personnages, campés d'une façon saisissante.
From the author of Sharp Teeth, comes a novel of postwar Paris, of star-crossed love and Cold War espionage, of bloodthirsty witches and a police inspector turned into a flea...and that's just the beginning.But while Toby Barlow's Babayaga may start as just a joyful love-letter to the City of Light, it quickly grows into a daring, moving exploration of love, mortality, and responsibility.
Then Tristán discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he has a way to change their lives - even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.
Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her.
As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán might just find out that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies . . .
The stunning new spy thriller that blows the world of James Bond wide open!
Six days.
A bomb goes off at the BBC. The country is in chaos, but this is just the start. A global terrorist organisation is plotting a series of deadly attacks. MI6 has just six days' warning for when the next one will strike.
Three agents.
With James Bond missing, three of MI6's toughest Double O agents race across the world to stop the attacks. From Venice to Australia to Dubai, they soon uncover a vast network of terror.
One chance to find James Bond.
As the Double Os close in, they find themselves unexpectedly inching closer to 007. Now the race is on to stop the terrorists - and save Britain's finest spy.
Sous les palmiers de Los Angeles, le crime n'a pas de loi. Troublant, intense, bouleversant, un thriller en acier trempé, qualifié de chef-d'oeuvre par la presse outre-Atlantique et porté par un duo inoubliable.
Intégrer la brigade canine de L. A. ? Neuf mois plus tôt, l'idée aurait fait sourire l'officier Scott James. Mais depuis qu'il a vu sa partenaire Stephanie se faire abattre sous ses yeux, Scott a perdu tout sens de l'humour.
Meurtri, mis au placard chez les maîtres-chiens, l'ex-super flic découvre Maggie, sa nouvelle coéquipière, un chien soldat surentraîné à la détection d'explosifs.
Après l'enfer qu'elle a vécu en Afghanistan, Maggie saura-t-elle faire confiance à nouveau ? Et Scott, trouvera-t-il auprès d'elle la force de se reconstruire ?
Mais, alors que le L.A.P.D. s'apprête à classer le meurtre de Stephanie, Scott doit agir : il le sait, la vérité est toute proche. Si évidente qu'elle en est terriblement dangereuse...
Braquage, bavures, corruption et crystal meth. Pour venger sa défunte partenaire, Scott s'engage sur une piste très glissante. Et seul le flair de Maggie pourra l'aider à sauver sa peau.
Der Capitaine Paul Capitaine, Mitglied der Elysée-Sondereinsatzgruppe, muss sich disziplinarischen Maßnahmen beugen und wird in seine Geburtsstadt Quimper strafversetzt. Bei der Rückkehr zu den Wurzeln seiner Kindheit wird seine Geduld jedoch hart auf die Probe gestellt. Von Anfang an geraten sein Vorgesetzter und er aneinander. Eine Ermittlung soll vorschnell abgeschlossen werden, und bei einem ungeklärten Brand in einem illegal besetzten Haus der Altstadt von Quimper sind Obdachlose zu Tode gekommen... Doch je heißer die Spur, desto mehr werden Paul Capitaine, der zum starrköpfigsten Schlag der Bretonen gehört, und alle, die ihm bei den Ermittlungen zur Hand gehen, konspirativ in die Zange genommen...
Bernard Larhant wurde 1955 in Quimper geboren und übt einen ganz besonderen Beruf aus: Er ist Worträtselerfinder. Während sein erster Roman in der südwestfranzösischen Aquitaine spielt, schreibt Bernard Larhant seither Bretagne-Krimis: der Capitaine de Police Paul Capitaine und seine Tochter Sarah ermitteln. „Quimper - Flammende Bedrohung« ist der erste Fall des schwungvollen Ermittler-Teams, das seinen Spürsinn bereits in zahlreichen Werken bewiesen hat. Bernard Larhant zählt zu den meist gelesenen Autoren der bretonischen Kriminalromane.Der scharf gewürzte Bretagne-Krimi Chile-Concarneau enthält genau die richtigen Zutaten...
In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy - and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.
At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan. Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tried to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.
The world of genetics is out of control -- now the new Sunday Times bestseller from Michael Crichton, one of today's most famous authors, shows you what happens NEXT!
A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London''s East End.
''Masterful'' Susan Lewis
''Feels different and fresh, Johnny Klein is a great character, love it!'' Kimberley Chambers
''Gritty, compelling and heartbreaking ... loved it'' Catherine Cooper
Martin Kemp, the music, film and TV legend creates fiction gold as he introduces fictional anti-hero Johnny Klein in a breathless, high-octane page-turner.
Johnny Klein is a rock casualty, a fallen 1980s popstar who has lost everything - his family, his money and his fame. Thrown a lifeline by an old contact in the music business, Johnny doesn''t care what he is getting himself into.
Dragged down into East London''s dark underbelly, Johnny discovers there is more at stake than his own shattered ego. Johnny hates being yesterday''s man but now he''s wishing he could disappear altogether. The party might be over, but there''s no escape from the past...
Readers LOVE The Game:
''I could not put it down''
''A book that stays with you after you''ve finished it ... Thrilling, heartfelt and thought-provoking''
''A good gritty storyline that also pulled at the heartstrings''
''Such a fun read''
''So gripping, absorbing and interesting''
''Mr Kemp didn''t disappoint''
''A great storyline ... I hope there''s a follow up book''
23-year-old Catherine is mainly interested in Facebook and flirting, but she reluctantly takes a job at a local care home after her mother puts her foot down - and soon discovers that her new workplace contains many secrets.
