5h36 : au Cap, une Américaine gravit Lion's Head, paniquée. 5h37: on appelle Benny Griessel et les inspecteurs sous sa tutelle - une fille a été égorgée. 7h02: Alexa Barnard se réveille, encore saoule, à côté du cadavre de son mari. Passé 12 h 57: ça tourne mal pour Griessel et ses hommes. Et à 18 h 37, les affaires sont classées. Treize heures ordinaires pour ces inspecteurs des homicides.
Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to forget her childhood in Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away - but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return. A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. And Lena is the only suspect. When Heartsdale police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, Lena's boss, receives word that his detective has been arrested, he has no choice but to go to Lena's aid - taking with him his wife, medical examiner Sara Linton. But soon after their arrival, a second victim is found. The town closes ranks. And both Jeffrey and Sara find themselves entangled in a horrifying underground world of bigotry and rage - a violent world which shocks even them. But can they discover the truth before the killer strikes again? 'No one does American small-town evil more chillingly ... Slaughter tells a dark story that grips and doesn't let go' The Times 'Thoroughly gripping' Daily Mirror 'Beautifully paced, appropriately grisly, and terrifyingly plausible' Time Out Fiction www.rbooks.co.uk www.karinslaughter.com
Milla Strachan, après vingt ans de maltraitance, quitte son mari pour rejoindre la Presidential Intelligence Agency. Elle surveille un groupuscule islamiste qui attend une importante livraison par bateau.
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Cl
A police officer is shot dead. The next day, one of his colleagues is as well. Then the South African police receive an email threatening an additional cop killed each day until a cold case is solved. Inspector Benny Griessel is charged with reopening the file on the murder of Hanneke Sloet, an ambitious lawyer stabbed to death in her luxury apartment. There’s no apparent motive and no leads, just a set of nude photographs and a burly ex-boyfriend a rock-solid alibi. Then more policemen are shot and the pressure mounts. Can Bennie solve the case and stay sober? Featuring the fantastic characters from Deon Meyer’s Thirteen Hours , which won the Barry Award for Best Thriller in 2011, Seven Days is another gripping adventure from a masterful writer at the top of his game.
À la Body Armour, société de protection des puissants, les gorilles sont chargés d’intimider les malfaiteurs – les invisibles, qui ne paient pas de mine, étant des gardes du corps bien plus redoutables. Invisible, Lemmer a fait quatre ans de taule pour meurtre et tente de refaire sa vie lorsqu’on lui confie une nouvelle mission : protéger la belle et frêle Emma Le Roux, patronne d’un cabinet de consultants. Il va la voir et écoute son histoire. Elle lui dit avoir vu son frère à la télé. Il est soupçonné d’avoir tué un sorcier et des braconniers dans la province de Mpumalanga et serait en fuite. Seul problème : ce frère est censé être mort depuis longtemps. Emma appelle la police et accepte l’idée qu’il s’agirait d’une erreur. Mais, deux jours plus tard, trois hommes essaient de la tuer. Lemmer, qui la prenait pour une folle, décide de l’aider dans son enquête. Qu’elle lui mente sûrement n’a plus d’importance : lui aussi veut savoir...
A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper hit of the year. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from al fresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois du Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chichi Parisian restaurant. A graphic account of sex stripped of sentiment, of a life of physical gratification and a relentlessly honest look at the consequences -- both liberating and otherwise -- have created this candid, powerful, and deeply intelligent depiction of unfettered sexuality.
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler, calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', arrives at the court of Emperor Akbar with a captivating tale that soon obsesses the imperial capital. He claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, Qara Koz, known for her beauty and rumored sorcery. Captured by an Uzbek warlord and later the Shah of Persia, she ultimately becomes the lover of Argalia, a Florentine soldier serving the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns to Florence with Qara Koz, her presence mesmerizes the city, leading to significant turmoil. The narrative explores a woman's struggle for autonomy in a patriarchal society, intertwining two worlds: the opulent Mughal capital, where Akbar grapples with belief, desire, and familial betrayal, and the sensual Florentine realm, rich with courtesans and humanist thought, where Niccolò Machiavelli learns the harsh realities of power. Despite their geographical distance, these worlds reveal striking similarities, bound by the enchantments of women. The central questions arise: Is Mogor's story genuine? What fate befell the lost princess? And if he is deceitful, what consequences await him?
Lorsque le correspondant de presse Eléazard von Wogau reçoit la biographie inédite d'Athanase Kircher, célèbre savant jésuite de l'époque baroque, il se lance sur ses traces, entraînant avec lui maints personnages aussi surprenants qu'extravagants. Véritable épopée, grand roman d'aventures, fresque étrange et flamboyante, où de minuscules intrigues se répondent et tissent une histoire du Brésil à l'aube du XXIe siècle.
The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant investigation which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel.
