En 1983, Frank Mackey attend sa petite amie Rosie pour quitter Dublin, mais elle disparaît. Vingt-deux ans plus tard, devenu policier, il n'a toujours pas de nouvelles d'elle. Un jour, sa sœur l'informe qu'on a retrouvé la valise de Rosie.
L’inspecteur Cassie Maddox travaille au département des violences domestiques. On est loin du temps où elle était agent infiltré. Sa première mission a été de se faire passer pour une étudiante à l’université de Dublin afin d’infiltrer un réseau de vendeurs de drogue. Son chef, Frank Mackey, et elle ont alors créé une nouvelle identité : Alexandra Madison. Cassie a donc été Lexie pendant quelques mois. Quelques années plus tard, Cassie est appelée sur les lieux d’un crime. Pourquoi elle alors qu’elle a quitté la brigade criminelle ? Elle le découvre en même temps qu’elle découvre le visage de la victime : c’est son portrait, elles se ressemblent comme deux gouttes d’eau. Son ancien chef, Frank, a alors une idée folle : taire la mort de Lexie Madison. Ainsi Cassie peut (re)prendre l’identité de Lexie et retourner à Whitethorn House où Lexie vivait entourée de ses quatre et uniques amis afin de mettre la brigade criminelle de Dublin sur la piste de l’assassin de Lexie.
PRIX DU MEILLEUR POLAR 2016 EN IRLANDE ! Pour l'inspectrice Antoinette Conway, integrer la brigade criminelle de Dublin est un reve qui se transforme vite en cauchemar. Son quotidien est fait d'affaires ingrates, de plaisanteries cruelles et de harcelement. Antoinette a beau etre solide, elle approche du point de rupture. Seul son partenaire, Stephen Moran, apprecie sa presence. Leur nouvelle enquete ressemble a une histoire d'amour qui a mal tourne. Aislinn Murray, jolie blonde bien sous tous rapports, est retrouvee assassinee chez elle, au pied d'une table dressee pour un diner romantique. Rien ne semble suspect dans le passe de la victime. Le seul element qui trouble Antoinette est la conviction de l'avoir deja vue quelque part. Les autres inspecteurs poussent Antoinette et Stephen a arreter le fiance d'Aislinn, coupable tout designe. Mais quand une amie de la defunte avoue a demi-mot qu'elle savait Aislinn en danger depuis quelque temps deja, sa mort prend une tournure bien moins banale, et devoile une part beaucoup plus sombre de la belle. De decouverte en decouverte, l'image de la poupee parfaite semble se fissurer, tout en mettant Antoinette au centre de l'enigme... Mais est-ce le harcelement qu'Antoinette subit qui la rend paranoiaque ? Est-elle encore clairvoyante dans cette affaire qui semble plus obscure et trompeuse qu'elle n'y parait sous le vernis poli des apparences ?
It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They're coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less - in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he's formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger- he's Trey's father. But Trey doesn't want protecting. What she wants is revenge.
A gripping psychological crime novel from an internationally bestselling author.
'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway - tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.
Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage he's bought, to walk the mountains, to put his old police instincts to bed forever. Then a local boy appeals to him for help. His brother is missing, and no one in the village, least of all the police, seems to care. And once again, Cal feels that restless itch. Something is wrong in this community, and he must find out what, even if it brings trouble to his door. Our greatest living mystery writer weaves a masterful tale of breath-taking beauty and suspense, asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice, and what we risk if we don't.
"Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who?s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life?he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family?s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden?and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we?re capable of, when we no longer know who we are"--Amazon.com
