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Lois Duncan

    28 avril 1934 – 15 juin 2016

    Lois Duncan était une maîtresse du suspense pour jeunes lecteurs, renommée pour ses thrillers captivants qui exploraient fréquemment le crime et le mystère. Ses œuvres, souvent conçues pour un public plus jeune, plongeaient sans crainte dans des thèmes plus sombres, tissant des intrigues complexes qui tenaient les lecteurs en haleine. Duncan possédait une vive capacité à créer une atmosphère, utilisant un style précis pour générer un sentiment de malaise et de suspense. Ses récits se caractérisent par des mystères captivants et son approche distinctive pour créer de la tension dans des histoires accessibles.

    Lois Duncan
    Don't Look Behind You
    Gallows Hill
    Summer of Fear
    Stranger With My Face
    Locked in Time
    Blackwood, le pensionnat de nulle part
    • Blackwood, le pensionnat de nulle part

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      A l’instant où elle pose les yeux sur l’imposant manoir gothique de Blackwood, le pensionnat où elle va passer l’année, un sentiment d’angoisse s’empare de Kit. Comme si un vent glacé traversait son cœur à chaque pas effectué vers la porte. Comme s’il y avait quelque chose de maléfique à l’intérieur des murs du pensionnat, perdu au milieu de nulle part. Lorsque d’étranges phénomènes viennent perturber son quotidien et que les trois autres pensionnaires se mettent à développer des talents artistiques incroyables, le malaise de Kit ne fait que s’intensifier. Hantée par une mélodie de piano, elle devient somnambule et aperçoit d’étranges silhouettes dans les couloirs sombres. Bien décidée à mener l’enquête, Kit découvrira que certains secrets feraient mieux de rester enfouis… car ils dépassent tout ce que la raison peut appréhender.

      Blackwood, le pensionnat de nulle part
      3,8
    • Locked in Time

      • 210pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Nore Roberts didn't ask for a new life, but now that her mom is gone and her dad is newly married, she has to settle in at Shadow Grove, the old Civil War mansion her stepfamily calls home. When she meets her stepmother, Lisette, Nore is shocked by her youth and beauty that gives her chills- and a hint of something sinister. There's hope of becoming friends with her stepbrother and sister, until Nore realizes they're hiding something. When she begins to feel like the target of a deadly plan, Nore starts digging into her stepfamily's past. The skeletons in their closet are more real than she ever imagined. Can Nore expose her stepmother's dark secret before an old and evil magic swallows her up?

      Locked in Time
      4,0
    • Have you ever been haunted by the feeling that someone is spying on you, lurking around your house and yard, even entering your bedroom? Are your friends plotting against you when they say they've seen you do things you know you haven't done? What's going on -- and does Laurie really want to find out?

      Stranger With My Face
      3,9
    • Summer of Fear

      • 219pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected.

      Summer of Fear
      3,9
    • Named an ALA Quick Pick, an exciting thriller by the author of the best-seller I Know What You Did Last Summer features a seventeen-year-old girl who becomes a clairvoyant and is branded a witch, in a repeat of the Salem witch trials. Reprint. AB.

      Gallows Hill
      3,8
    • Don't Look Behind You

      • 215pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

      Don't Look Behind You
      3,7
    • Daughters of Eve

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Sworn to secrecy. Bound by loyalty.It's the high school's most exclusive club--but now a twisted mind is leading it. Who will be the first victim?The girls at Modesta High School feel like they're stuck in some anti-feminist time warp-they're faced with sexism at every turn, and they've had enough. Sponsored by their new art teacher, Ms. Stark, they band together to form the Daughters of Eve. It's more than a school club-it's a secret society, a sisterhood. At first, it seems like they are actually changing the way guys at school treat them. But Ms. Stark urges them to take more vindictive action, and it starts to feel more like revenge-brutal revenge. Blinded by their oath of loyalty, the Daughters of Eve become instruments of vengeance. Can one of them break the spell before real tragedy strikes?

      Daughters of Eve
      3,6
    • Kill their English teacher? Even if Mr. Griffin was the toughest teacher in the school, the one who demanded the most, gave the lowest grades, and refused to turn the classroom into a place where students had 'fun'--- there was no reason to kill him. Or was there?Well, Mark suggested, perhaps not kill him--- just really frighten him. Kidnap him for a few hours and teach him that students could strike back.No, they never actually intended to kill Mr. Griffin. But sometimes even the best-laid plans go wrong.

      Killing Mr. Griffin
      3,6
    • They Never Came Home

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Joan’s boyfriend and her brother are missing and assumed dead. Until the voice on the other end of the phone hints at something more terrible.

      They Never Came Home
      3,5
    • I Know What You Did Last Summer

      Englische Lektüre für das 3. Lernjahr. Mit Annotationen

      It was only an accident but it would change their lives forever. Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But now, someone has learned the truth, and the horror is starting again. There is an unknown avenger out there who is stalking them in a deadly game. Will he stop at terror--or is he out for revenge? This summer, four friends are going to learn that some secrets just won't stay buried.

      I Know What You Did Last Summer
      3,5