René van Veen Ordre des livres (chronologique)

New in paperback: the critically acclaimed sequel to the CWA Dagger-winning Bluebird Bluebird.

With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, Roy Cady is a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before he makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman in the apartment, and sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a crucial decision: to take her with him on the run from New Oreans to Galveston, Texas.

From high in the house that stands on the hill, young Meridia watches her stern father Gabriel, disappear off into a mist each night and her proud mother speaking to her pots and pans in strange language ... A haunting and mythical debut from a major new literary talent.