Krimi. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called
La vie d'Owen Pick s'effondre. Dans la trentaine, vierge et vivant dans la chambre d'amis de sa tante, il vient d'être suspendu de son poste de professeur de géographie après des accusations de conduite sexuelle inappropriée, qu'il nie fermement. En cherchant des conseils professionnels en ligne, il est entraîné malgré lui dans le monde sombre des forums incel, où il rencontre le charismatique, mystérieux et sinistre Bryn. En face d'Owen vit la famille Fours, dirigée par Cate, physiothérapeute, et Roan, psychologue pour enfants. La famille Fours a un mauvais pressentiment à propos de leur voisin Owen, qu'ils trouvent un peu inquiétant, surtout leur fille adolescente qui jure qu'il l'a suivie jusqu'à chez elle un soir. Pendant ce temps, Saffyre Maddox a passé trois ans en tant que patiente de Roan Fours. Se sentant abandonnée à la fin de leur thérapie, elle cherche d'autres moyens de maintenir sa connexion avec lui, l'observant dans l'ombre et découvrant plus qu'elle ne le souhaitait sur Roan et sa famille. Puis, la nuit de la Saint-Valentin, Saffyre Maddox disparaît - et la dernière personne à l'avoir vue vivante est Owen Pick.
A powerful, compelling, vividly written Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane Harper
We've all done things we're ashamed of... When Ava arrives at her summer escape, Brodie's Watch, she thinks she's found the perfect place to hide from her past. All she wants is to forget. But the old house on the hill both welcomes and repels her, and Ava quickly begins to suspect she is not alone. Either that or she is losing her mind. The house is full of secrets, but is the creeping sense of danger coming from within its walls, or from somewhere else entirely?
Award-winning author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: Lynley and his pugnacious and deeply loyal Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers find themselves up against one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered.When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request: the first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to the case and for good measure partners her with the one person who shares his wish to see the back of her, Detective Chief Superintendent Isabelle Ardery.But Ardery has her own difficulties. She is not happy to be sent away from London and as a result is in a rush to return. This causes her to overlook things, important things, and prevents her from uncovering an earlier crime that set everything in motion.
With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other. With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. Things seem to be going well for a change when all the members of the Women's Murder Club gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight. As Lindsay investigates, shocking video footage of another crime surfaces: the video is so horrific that it shakes the city to its core. Their faces obscured by masks, the cold blooded criminals on the tape could be anyone-and now all of Lindsay's co-workers are suspects. As a rash of violence sweeps through San Francisco, and public fear and anger grows, Lindsay and her friends must risk their lives in the name of justice, before it's too late. With shocking twists and riveting suspense, 14th Deadly Sin proves yet again that when it comes to suspense fiction, "nobody does it better" than James Patterson (Jeffrey Deaver).
In Abby Williams Ritter has created an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroin...An excellent debut The Times
L'experte, c'est elle. Le Dr Kay Scarpetta est appelee sur la scene du deces d'une cycliste, par une chaude soiree d'ete. Il semblerait que la jeune femme ait ete agressee mais les indices sont etranges: des petits eclats de verre sur le corps de la victime et une forte odeur de brule. Avant meme que le Centre de sciences legales de Cambridge n'ait ete officiellement averti de cette affaire, le detective Pete Marino et Benton Wesley, le mari de Scarpetta, agent du FBI, recoivent des appels, pretendument d'un enqueteur d'Interpol. Mais Scarpetta est convaincue que ces appels sont suspects et sa brillante niece Lucy soupconne vite l'oeuvre d'un cyber tyran. Lorsqu'un proche de Scarpetta est assassine a des centaines de kilometres au sud, tout suggere qu'il s'agit du meme tueur. Confrontee a un danger invisible et redoutable, Scarpetta arrivera-t-elle a surmonter le chaos qui regne ? Dans cette nouvelle enquete haletante, un secret explosif va ravager la famille de Kay Scarpetta dont l'expertise en medecine legale sera mise a l'epreuve comme jamais auparavant...
The No. 1 bestselling series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
Kay Scarpetta s'apprête à célébrer son anniversaire à Miami en compagnie de son mari, Benton Wesley, quand elle remarque sept pièces de monnaie alignées à son insu sur le mur derrière leur maison. A cet instant, un appel du détective Pete Marino l'informe qu'un professeur a été abattu non loin de chez elle. Le tireur a agi avec précision et personne n'a rien vu ni entendu. Il pourrait s'agir du tueur ayant déjà fait des victimes dans le New Jersey, mais rien ne permet encore de l'affirmer. Kay soupçonne que le lien, s'il existe, se trouve sous ses yeux. Lorsque la menace se profile dans son entourage, il devient clair que quelqu'un cherche à la faire payer en monnaie de sang...
Barbara est catastrophée: Hadiyyah, la fille de son ami Taymullah Azhar a été enlevée par sa mère. Azhar ne s'étant jamais marié avec Angelina et son nom ne figurant pas sur le certificat de naissance de leur fille, il n'a aucun droit juridique. Il n'a pas d'autre possibilité que de faire appel à un détective privé. Mais alors qu'ils retrouvent la trace d'Haddiyyah en Toscane, la petite se fait enlever. Cette dernière étant britannique, Scotland Yard et la police italienne vont devoir collaborer, non sans heurts. Et lorsque la presse s'en mêle, l'incident diplomatique n'est guère loin. C'est là que Lynley intervient...
Tu penses avoir survécu au pire. Mais le véritable cauchemar commence maintenant – APRÈS. Sarah Farber a survécu à trois années cruelles dans un cachot. Dix ans plus tard, elle ne peut oublier l'obscurité, le froid et le désespoir. Elle ignore toujours ce qu'il est advenu de sa meilleure amie Jennifer. À présent, son tortionnaire est sur le point d'être libéré sous condition, et elle est la seule à pouvoir l'en empêcher – mais pour cela, elle doit affronter la terrible vérité. L'auteure parvient à rendre l'horreur palpable, transformant le martyre de Sarah en une souffrance personnelle qui dépasse l'imaginable. Les lecteurs sont entraînés dans les profondeurs les plus sombres du cachot. Le livre captive du début à la fin et est décrit comme impressionnant et saisissant. C'est un véritable page-turner qui coupe le souffle et pousse les lecteurs à annuler tous leurs rendez-vous et à renoncer au sommeil. L'addiction est forte – une fois commencé, on ne peut plus s'arrêter. L'auteure aborde le destin poignant de Sarah avec une distance respectueuse, sans regard voyeuriste. Les subtilités psychologiques sont habilement et convaincantes. L'horreur devient tangible, et les lecteurs souffrent avec les femmes captives. Voilà comment un thriller psychologique captivant devrait être écrit !
Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante? A murderer returns The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess. Caught in a lethal cross fire As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action, deception, and suspense, Cross Fire is James Patterson's most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.
The basis for DEEP WATER, now a major ITV TV series, starring Anna Friel. 'One of the most hypnotically gripping books I've read in a long, long time.' TESS GERRITSEN Your friend's child is missing. It's your fault. No family is perfect. A husband, three children and a full-time job, so many plates to keep spinning. No wonder you forgot you were supposed to be looking after your friend's daughter. But no one has seen her since yesterday. And she's not the first to go missing from your small town. So who's hiding something? 'She writes with a singular voice and a passion that roars off the page . . . With a sharp, double-twist ending it announces Daly as a potential star' Daily Mail 'Fiendishly addictive' Guardian 'Riveting! Daly plunges straight into the heart of every parent's worst nightmare with page-turning results' Lisa Gardner 'The sort of book that causes you to lose half a day without even noticing' Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner
A la suite d'une enquête sur une tuerie de masse, Kay Scarpetta reçoit un appel des plus troublants. Le corps d'une jeune femme a été découvert sur le campus du Massachusetts Institute of Technology, à Boston. La victime, jeune et riche diplômée du MIT, est morte moins de deux semaines avant son procès contre la très confidentielle société fiduciaire Double S. Son corps est positionné de manière particulière et recouvert d'un résidu fluorescent de couleur rouge sang, vert émeraude et bleu saphir. Ces deux indices semblent lier l'affaire à une série d'homicides sur lesquels travaille Benton, agent du FBI et mari de Kay. Le docteur Scarpetta découvre un univers sordide de corruption et de meurtre. Avec, comme seul fil conducteur pour 'raquer le meurtrier, quelques traînées de poudre.
Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared, a case that draws Alex into the heart of an underworld fantasy club, in a book by a best-selling author.
Detective Lindsay Boxer finally gets married. But a missing newborn and a series of violent attacks push the Womens Murder Club back to full throttle before the wedding gifts are even unwrapped.
Roman policier (suspense) Kay Scarpetta, bien déterminée à découvrir les raisons du meurtre de son assistant Jack Fielding, se rend au pénitencier de femmes de Géorgie, où une prisonnière affirme détenir des informations sur ce dernier. Elle évoque aussi d'autres assassinats sans relations apparentes : une famille d'Atlanta décimée des années auparavant et une jeune femme dans le couloir de la mort. Peu après, Jaime Berger, ancienne procureur de New York, convoque Kay Scarpetta à un dîner, mais dans quel but ? Kay comprend que le meurtre de Fielding et celui auquel elle a échappé autrefois constituent le début d'un plan destructeur. Face à un adversaire malade et dangereux, elle traverse enfin le voile rouge qui l'empêchait de comprendre. [4e de couverture]
Europe is stunning in the summer . . . but NYPD detective Jacob Kanon isn't there for the beauty. He's on a mission: to track down his daughter's killer. NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him-he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm-and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless twists and unstoppable action, The Postcard Killers may be James Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.
Kay Scarpetta est experte en sciences l gales sur CNN et conseill re aupr s du m decin en chef de l'institut m dico-l gal de New York. Le producteur de CNN souhaite que Scarpetta lance une nouvelle mission. Mais cette notori t accrue semble d clencher une s rie d' v nements inattendus. Alors qu'elle intervient en direct au sujet d'une affaire tr s m diatis e, la disparition et la mort pr sum e d'une millionnaire, Kay re oit un appel surprenant d'une t l spectatrice, qui se r v le tre une ancienne patiente de son mari Benton Wesley, et, de retour chez elle, elle trouve un inqui tant paquet. Scarpetta, dont la vie est menac e, se lance alors dans une enqu te qui implique un acteur c l bre, qu'on accuse d'un crime sexuel, et sa ni ce Lucy, qui aurait eu des liens avec la millionnaire disparue... En mati re de sciences l gales, nul n' gale Cornwell New York Times Book Review
Copenhague, 1905. Severine Riis, esposa del pintor danés Viktor Riis, posa para él, siempre de espaldas. Para sobrellevar el silencio de las sesiones, comienza a escribir un diario con sus reflexiones íntimas. Bucarest, 1985. Joen Alsted, embajador de Dinamarca, hereda seis cuadros de Viktor y se relaciona con la familia Moore, donde su hija Freya cautiva a Sophia, su esposa, quien anhela ser madre. Londres, 2005. Tras la muerte de su marido, Sophia decide vender las obras de Riis, y el joven historiador del arte Peter Finch se encarga de su documentación. Freya, ahora casi treintañera, es invitada a la casa de Sophia, donde descubre los diarios de Severine. Esto desata una investigación sobre la vida y obra de Riis, con consecuencias inesperadas. Paula Vene Smith presenta una historia cautivadora en la que seis cuadros enigmáticos impactan la vida de varios personajes a través del tiempo. La autora explora la relación entre arte y vida, creando un caleidoscopio de emociones que atrapa al lector desde el inicio.
Dans "Im Visier des Amokschützen", le "Women's Murder Club" fait face à une terreur grandissante à San Francisco, où des enfants de familles riches disparaissent avec leurs nourrices. Le silence est assourdissant, laissant parents et autorités dans l'angoisse de savoir qui sera la prochaine victime.
Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before. Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it's the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets. As the search for two criminals tests the limits of the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and Lindsay's partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Club now faces its toughest challenge: Will love destroy all that the four friends have built?
Leaving her forensic pathology practice in Charleston, Kay Scarpetta takes an assignment in New York City at Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward, where the NYPD needs her expertise to examine Oscar Bane, a handcuffed patient who specifically requested her. As Scarpetta engages with him, Bane shares a bizarre story about injuries he claims were sustained during a murder he insists he did not commit. This raises questions: Is Bane a dangerous stalker fixated on Scarpetta, or is he genuinely being hunted by the real killer? Scarpetta is certain of one thing—a woman has been brutally murdered, and more violence is imminent. As the investigation unfolds, a chilling truth surfaces: the perpetrator seems to know the victims' every move. Scarpetta, along with her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley, and her niece Lucy, who runs a forensic computer investigation firm, embarks on a harrowing journey through both cyberspace and the streets of New York. They confront shocking twists and cutting-edge technology, leading them to unexpected places that hit too close to home. Cornwell masterfully blends suspense and innovation, showcasing her talent for captivating storytelling.
Two cases have pushed Detective Lindsay Boxer to the limit. A string of fatal arson attacks have broken out in San Fransisco. The targets have one thing in common: they are all rich, successful, married couples. With four couples dead, Lindsay is determined to put a stop to the killings and trace the murderer.
Un attentat mystérieux dans une petite ville américaine mobilise l'agent du FBI Alex Cross. Un appel anonyme des revendications mène les enquêteurs à une impasse, puis d'autres attentats sont signalés à travers le monde.
"When the bady of eleven year old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco bay, the police qwiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defence, is quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.
A beautiful summer ́s evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. An idyllic scence. But this is a group leading dangerous lives - exploitative employers, British regulations and gang masters with guns will all threaten them as they take to the caravan road to find their destinies.
La morgue inscrit tous les décès au Registre des morts. Ce livre va bientôt prendre une signification différente pour Kay Scarpetta. Lorsqu'elle s'installe à Charleston, en Caroline du Sud, pour y ouvrir avec sa nièce Lucy et Pete Marino un cabinet de médecine légale, elle croit commencer une vie idéale. Mais très vite, elle entre en conflit avec des politiciens locaux et on cherche à saboter son projet. Débute alors une série de morts violentes : un meurtre rituel, un enfant victime de sévices, une joueuse de tennis retrouvée mutilée à Rome, sans autre lien entre ces affaires qu'une certaine patiente d'un prestigieux hôpital psychiatrique de Nouvelle Angleterre. D'autres noms s'ajouteront au Registre des morts, peut-être même celui de Kay. [Source : 4e de couv.]
Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.
Elle est allongée sur le sol du garage. Inerte. Ses jolis vêtements sont imprégnés de sang. Épouvantée, Nikki secoue sa mère. En vain. Devant ce corps déjà froid, elle doit se rendre à l'évidence : on l'a assassinée. Pour la retenir encore un peu, Nikki enquête auprès de ses proches, ose les questions qu'elle n'a pas eu le temps de poser. Les réponses ont un parfum de révélations...
"Definire "pigro" un bambino significa non aver capito nulla di lui." Quello che spesso chiamiamo "pigrizia" è in realtà uno stato psicofisico che ha delle ragioni accertabili, molto simili a ingranaggi inceppati, ad anelli deboli della catena che regola il buon funzionamento della mente e del corpo di ognuno di noi. MeI Levine, esperto dei problemi dell'apprendimento, individua otto cause di scarso rendimento, e le illustra una per una con il racconto di un caso esemplare: disfunzione motoria; difficoltà di memoria a lungo termine; scarsa capacità di controllo dell'"energia mentale"; impulsività e frenesia sociale; inadeguatezza linguistico-espressiva; difficoltà di ideazione e di elaborazione di pensiero critico e creativo; problemi di organizzazione. Che fare una volta individuata l'origine del problema? Il passo successivo, come ci mostra Levine, è stabile alcune modalità di intervento, in grado di esaltare i punti di forza della personalità di ciascuno e spingerlo così ad affrontare ogni ostacolo con l'energia ritrovata dell'ottimismo. La pigrizia non è un male incurabile. Come ci insegna questo libro, semplicemente non esiste. Esistono piuttosto tecniche e strategie per valorizzare e potenziare tutti quegli aspetti che consentono ai presunti pigri di sfruttare al meglio conoscenze, abilità e doti peculiari. Facendo di ogni bambino l'eroe di uno sforzo produttivo e felice.
À San Francisco, une explosion dans la maison d'un millionnaire révèle trois corps et un message mystérieux. Peu après, un homme d'affaires est assassiné, déclenchant une guerre contre la corruption. Lindsay Boxer et ses amies enquêtent sur ces crimes en série, alors que le sommet du G8 approche, dans un thriller palpitant.
Illuminati... Robert Langdon n'en croit pas ses yeux. Pourtant l'inscription s'étalait bien devant lui, marquée au fer rouge sur le cadavre de Leonardo Vetra, éminent chercheur du Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire en Suisse. Pour le célèbre symbologue, ce crime est signé : la société secrète tant redoutée est de retour après quatre siècles de silence. Son but ? Anéantir l'Eglise catholique et son symbole, le Vatican...
San Francisco. Un redoutable psychopathe s'amuse à massacrer des couples de jeunes mariés alors qu'ils savourent les premières heures de leur lune de miel. Comble de la perversité, le meurtrier semble prendre un malin plaisir à disposer les cadavres dans des postures sexuellement explicites... Inspectrice en chef de la brigade criminelle, Lindsay Boxer est immédiatement en charge d'une enquête qui ne tarde pas à dévoiler ses limites. Désireuse de démasquer rapidement un assassin de plus en plus insaisissable, la jeune femme s'octroie les services d'une journaliste opiniâtre, d'une influente adjointe du procureur et de sa meilleure amie, Claire, médecin légiste de son état. Cette association a un nom : le "Women Murder CLub"...
Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.
Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon training. But Dexter is no ordinary man. The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Colenso travels to Bosnia to volunteer as an aid worker. A few weeks later, he disappears and is never heard from again. A family grieves and is offered little hope--in the fog of that horrible time and place, the killer, too, has vanished. Or so it would seem. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, there are few like Cal Dexter who can settle the score. And so, years later, a worldwide chase is on and Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer. But this time CIA agent Paul Devereux must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos. A heart-stopping novel of murder and mystery, double-cross and triple-cross, old loyalties and new hatreds, Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trademarks.
Ricardo Arias is found dead, the gun still wedged in his mouth. It looks like suicide, but the physical evidence strongly suggests murder. The police investigation uncovers an estranged wife, Terri Peralta; an ugly custody battle over their six-year-old daughter, Elena; heated charges of child abuse; and a murder suspect: San Francisco defense attorney Christopher Paget. Paget has motive--it's his son accused of abusing Elena, his political plans for the future put at risk by the dead man's accusations, and his alibi that is dangerously threadbare. And the shocking revelations that threaten to explode in the courtroom may remain hidden forever...by Chris Paget's refusal to testify on his own behalf...by Elena's tangled loyalties...and by dark secrets that some desperately wish to keep silent....
George W., le Bandit-en-Chef accompagné de sa clique de millionnaires, prépare sa réélection au poste de Commandant en Chef de la Mère Patrie ! Il n'en fallait pas plus à Mike pour repartir au front et TOUT faire pour que le cauchemar s'arrête. Dans ce nouveau livre, aussi drôle et provocateur que les précédents, Mike est l'Arme de Dérision Massive : il s'attaque aux mensonges et à la propagande dont son pays est victime depuis le 11 septembre, notamment sur les armes de Saddam. Il révèle les petits secrets du roi George du pétrole irakien et ses petites combines avec ses copains saoudiens. Et Mike se fâche vraiment quand il voit que sa patrie est devenue les Etats-Unis de la Peur, où les libertés publiques sont menacées alors que les grands patrons-truands des multinationales US échappent à la prison ! " Le bonhomme est toujours aussi drôle. Dans son dernier bouquin, il s'emploie, avec la joyeuse hargne qu'on lui connaît, à dégommer le bilan calamiteux de George W. et de son gang. "
Fin des seventies. San Francisco, la fureur au cœur et au corps, consomme la libération sexuelle sous des néons tapageurs. Débarquant de Cleveland, la jeune Mary Ann Singleton plante son camp au 28 Barbary Lane, un refuge pour « chats errants ». Logeuse pour le moins libérale, Mme Madrigal règne en douce matriarche sur cette étonnante pension de famille... « Ça va à toute vitesse, avec la profondeur d'un roman d'analyse et la légèreté d'un sitcom.» Stéphane Hoffmann, Madame Figaro Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Olivier Weber et Tristan Duverne
Her captivating bestseller of loss and the healing power of love now re-issued with a stunning new jacket look. Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance. Oscar and Elfrida take refuge in a rambling house in Scotland which becomes a magnet for various waifs and strays who converge upon it, including an unhappy teenage girl. It could be a recipe for disaster. But somehow the Christmas season weaves its magical spell and for Elfrida and Oscar, in the evening of their lives, the winter solstice brings love and solace.
Gabriel Noone forms a bond with a young, troubled listener to his late-night radio show. As Noone's friendship with the dying boy grows, he feels he can unlock his innermost feelings. But troubling questions arise, and he is forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.
At the peak of his legal career, Tony Lord is suddenly called to defend his friend, Sam Robb, who is charged with murder. However, Lord has regrets about returning to Lake City, Ohio, where he too, was suspected of murder. Yet, knowing the pain of unjust accusation, he feels compelled to help Sam.
A “gem of a novel” that sends up marriage, academia, and literary stardom, by the New York Times–bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Publishers Weekly). In this delightful novel from an author who “has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy,” we meet Margaret Nathan, the brilliant but forgetful author of an unlikely bestseller (The New York Review of Books). Happily married to a benevolently egotistical, slightly dull but sexy professor, Margaret seems blessed—until she finds herself seduced by an eighteenth-century novel she discovers in the library. Wrapped in its lascivious world, Margaret begins to imitate its protagonist, embarking on a hilarious jaunt around Manhattan in search of renewed passion. Will she find fulfillment through her escapades or settle for her husband? Part romantic comedy, part intellectual parody, Rameau’s Niece is wise, affecting, and thoroughly entertaining.
