New York Times bestseller Brenda Novak's second novel in the Evelyn Talbot series, HELLO AGAIN, sees the return of psychiatrist Dr Evelyn Talbot in her purpose-built facility housing America's most terrifying psychopaths. This is SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets Karen Rose...
Starr a seize ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres entre gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic ; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans le dos. Par un policier trop nerveux. Starr est la seule témoin. Et tandis que son quartier s'embrase, tandis que la police cherche à enterrer l'affaire, tandis que les gangs font pression sur elle pour qu'elle se taise, Starr va apprendre à surmonter son deuil et sa colère ; et à redresser la tête. La haine qu'on donne traduction de l'anglais The hate u give.
Robert Crais ( Free Fall , Monkey's Raincoat ) returns with his eighth Elvis Cole mystery, L.A. Requiem , a breakneck caper that leaves the wise-cracking detective second-guessing himself. Cole's partner, the tight-lipped, charm-free Joe Pike, gets a call from his friend Frank "Tortilla" Garcia. Not only is Garcia a wealthy businessman, he's a political heavyweight and father of Karen, Joe's ex. Frank sends the gumshoe duo out to find his girl, but the boys are beaten to the punch by the men in blue: Karen is found in a park with a bullet in her brain. The two stay on the case, but when another murder points to Pike as a suspect, things take a turn for the worse. The boys on the force are all too willing to put Pike away -- he has a checkered past. When Cole attempts to save Pike, he finds a lot more than he bargained for.
Ancien flic, Pete Bondurant est un tueur. Il alimente le journal à potins du producteur Howard Hughes et dirige avec sa maîtresse Gail une officine de flagrants délits d'adultère. Kemper Boyd, du FBI, a été chargé par son patron Hoover d'infiltrer une commission d'enquête sur les rackets syndicalistes, tandis que son collègue Ward J. Littell espionne les réseaux communistes. John Stanton, agent de la CIA, est chargé de former militairement les expulsés cubains pour une opération de représailles. Mêlant allègrement la fiction à des faits réels, James Ellroy se sert de ses quatre protagonistes pour réécrire l'histoire politique des États-Unis de 1958 à 1963, date de l'assassinat de John F. Kennedy. Il utilise des faits jusqu'alors ignorés ou cachés qui démythifient l'honorable famille Kennedy et notamment son patriarche. Dans cette fresque épique à quatre voix, il adopte sa forme stylistique préférée : phrases courtes, descriptions minimales, nombreux dialogues. Une fois capté dans cet écheveau, le lecteur ne peut s'en défaire et se trouve pris dans un tourbillon qui le laisse assommé.
Entré tout jeune dans une sanglante confrérie - les Faucheurs - Louis y a appris les rudiments d'un sale boulot. Contrat après contrat. Aujourd'hui, ces années-là sont derrière lui. Mais les démons du passé crient toujours dans la nuit et frappent à nouveau. Les Faucheurs sont à ses trousses. Bliss, le " tueur des tueurs ", veut sa peau : ni Louis ni ses proches ne sont a l'abri de son impitoyable vengeance. Bientôt, l'ami Charlie Parker se joint à la contre-attaque. Entre chiens et loups, la bataille s'annonce sans merci et la nuit, interminable, n'aura pas d'aurore...
Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared 40 years ago, private detective Charlie Parker realises that their deaths are part of the same mystery.
Dark Hollow is a masterful second novel from a young Irish writer whose storytelling skills were established with Every Dead Thing. Now his fiery, ingenious detective, Charlie Bird Parker, returns to uncover a legacy of evil that has haunted Maine citizens for decades.
Daisy Jones & The Six... le groupe de rock le plus mythique de tous les temps. Leurs concerts remplissaient les stades aux quatre coins de la planète et ils ont enflammé les nuits de toute une génération. De leurs débuts dans les bars miteux d'un Sunset Strip écrasé de soleil californien à la gloire, leur histoire est celle d'une ascension fulgurante. De l'euphorie qui vient avec le succès, des excitants qu'on prend pour entretenir la magie et des calmants qu'on avale pour essayer de dormir. C'est l'histoire du rock'n'roll. C'est aussi celle de Daisy Jones, l'icône ultime. Mais le 12 juillet 1979, après le plus mémorable des concerts, le groupe a éclaté. Personne n'a jamais su pourquoi... Jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Musiciens, fans, managers, amants, gardiens d'immeubles... ils ont tous été les témoins de cette histoire... Mais quarante ans plus tard, chacun a sa propre version de la vérité. Cet ovni littéraire, qui a enflammé les lecteurs des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, nous plonge avec frénésie au coeur d'une des périodes artistiques et sociales les plus exaltantes de notre époque !
Los Angeles gli ha dato e gli ha preso tutto. L'investigatore privato lo sa ed è stremato. Troppe cose ha visto, troppe situazioni a rischio. Troppa esperienza per non capire subito che un vecchio massacro sta ancora producendo il suo carico di odio. Una detetive story magistrale e violenta. Definitiva.
Dallas, novembre 63. Le coeur du rêve américain explose. Un jeune flic arrive de Las Vegas avec 6000 dollars en liquide et un sale boulot à exécuter. Il ne sait pas qu'il va faire partie du complot visant à étouffer la vérité sur l'assassinat de Kennedy. Il s'appelle Wayne Tedrow. Cinq années dans les coulisses de la politique vont le conduire de Dallas au Vietnam, en passant par le sud des Etats-Unis. Cinq années avec J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, la Mafia et le Ku Klux Klan. Voici le second volet de la trilogie Underworld USA, commencée avec American Tabloid (Rivages/Noir nº 282). Le cauchemar américain nourri des coïncidences de l'histoire des années 60 passées au crible par Ellroy.
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That's why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance. All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand. All of them are there for the celebration that is the Big Oakland Powwow. But Tony Loneman is also there. And Tony has come to the Powwow with darker intentions.
Un romanzo feroce, epico, dallo stile vertiginoso e appassionante. Un capolavoro spietato. Dallas, 22 novembre 1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy viene assassinato: esplode il cuore del Sogno Americano. Un giovane poliziotto di Las Vegas, Wayne Tedrow Junior, arriva a Dallas con 6000 dollari in contanti e un odioso compito da svolgere: si troverà coinvolto nei retroscena criminali della vita pubblica americana. Sei pezzi da mille inizia dove terminava American Tabloid : dall'attentato a Kennedy e dal complotto per insabbiarlo. James Ellroy allaccia il suo racconto ai grandi eventi di quegli anni: il movimento per i diritti civili, Martin Luther King, la tragica morte dei fratelli Kennedy, l'escalation dello sforzo bellico in Vietnam. I personaggi di finzione si mescolano a quelli reali, le grandi figure dell'epoca si affiancano a sbirri, assassini, malviventi e provocatori, i fili della storia vera e inventata convergono nell'Incubo Americano.
As the first girl to be born into the Nachimanda family in over thirty-five years, the beautiful Devi is the object of adoration of her entire family. Spirited and strong-willed, she befriends the shy Devanna, a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Together they grow up amidst the luscious jungles, rolling hills, and coffee plantations of Coorg in Southern India; cocooned by an extended family whose roots to this beautiful land can be traced for centuries. Their futures seem inevitably linked, but everything changes when, one night, they attend a "tiger wedding." It is there that Devi gets her first glimpse of Machu, the celebrated tiger killer and a hunter of great repute. Although she is still a child and Machu is a man, Devi vows to marry him one day. It is this love that will gradually drive a wedge between Devi and Devanna, sowing the seed of a devastating tragedy that will change the fate of all three --- an event that has unforeseen and far-reaching consequences for generations to come. Told in rich, lyrical prose and set against the background of a changing society, TIGER HILLS is a sweeping saga about one woman's determination to live life on her own terms --- and a riveting novel about the choices we make in the name of family, nation, and love.
Cinq ans que le docteur Daniel Clay, pédopsychiatre à la réputation trouble, n'a plus donné signe de vie. Comment expliquer que les enfants ayant subi des abus sexuels qu'il suivait retombaient invariablement dans l'enfer du viol ? Quelle horrible réalité se cache derrière le témoignage énigmatique fait par les victimes : un vieux clocher, des hommes à têtes d'oiseaux ? Autant de questions auxquelles le privé Charlie Parker doit répondre, et vite. Car un père en deuil, ex-tueur à gages, compte bien faire justice lui-même. Aveuglément. Quand les rapaces deviennent les proies, difficile de distinguer le bien du mal : dans les forêts profondes où le conduira cette course-poursuite, Parker devra faire l'apprentissage de la pitié. Et peut-être, enfin, faire taire ces voix qui chuchotent dans la nuit... «Ce livre est à coup sûr le meilleur roman d'un écrivain irlandais désormais considéré comme un des maîtres du genre.» P. B. - Atmosphères
His uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, has recruited Hungarian Nicholas Morath for a secret mission on the eve of World War II
Elle a tout vu, mais faut-il la croire? Séparée de son mari et de leur fille, Anna vit recluse dans sa maison de Harlem, abreuvée de merlot, de bêtabloquants et de vieux polars en noir et blanc. Quand elle ne joue pas aux échecs sur Internet, elle espionne ses voisins. Surtout la famille Russel - un père, une mère et un adorable ado -, qui vient d'emménager en face. Un soir, Anna est témoin d'un crime. Mais comment convaincre la police quand on doute de sa propre raison?
Rendered mute after a traumatic attack, a beautiful young woman and her LAPD rookie brother find themselves enmeshed in a government conspiracy that forces them to outmaneuver an international hit man and a power-hungry baroness.
Victime d'une amnésie totale, une jeune femme tente de retrouver son identité et de reconnaître ses proches. Variations originales sur ce thème. [SDM].
Alice è seducente, irresistibile e irriverente verso il mondo dei maschi. Nella sua camera d'ospedale, dove è costretta all'immobilità da una malattia misteriosa, entrano e escono genitori stravaganti, innamorati respinti, spasimanti bizzarri. Il suo letto diventa così un folle volano, un osservatorio dal quale il lettore può intuire gli spazi smisurati dei desideri, i sentimenti che durano solo un minuto, le fantasie amorose più trasgressive.
Au printemps 1938, l'Autriche n'est plus un havre de paix pour les juifs. Elise Landau, jeune fille de la bonne société viennoise, est contrainte à l'exil. Tandis que sa famille attend un visa pour l'Amérique, elle devient domestique à Tyneford, une grande propriété du Dorset. C'est elle désormais qui polit l'argenterie et sert à table. Au début, elle se fait discrète, dissimule les perles de sa mère sous son uniforme, tait l'humiliation du racisme, du déclassement, l'inquiétude pour les siens, et ne parle pas du manuscrit que son père, écrivain de renom, a caché dans son alto. Peu à peu Elise s'attache aux lieux, s'ouvre aux autres, se fait aimer... Mais la guerre gronde et le monde change. Elise aussi doit changer. C'est à Tyneford pourtant qu'elle apprendra qu'on peut vivre plus d'une vie et aimer plus d'une fois. Par l'auteur du délicieux Jack Rosenblum rêve en anglais.
Clara Marsh is an undertaker. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths, beautifying their bodies, and bidding them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. But Clara's carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlour, desperate for a friend. It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between her solitary but steadfast existence and the perils of binding one's life to another. Clara's search for the girl pulls her into a spiralling series of events that threaten to endanger the few people Clara has grown to love - and finally brings her own tragic and long-buried past to the surface. Darkly atmospheric and tautly written, TETHERED is a haunting and ultimately heart-breaking novel that explores the themes of love, loss, faith and redemption.
It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. Are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?
Former LAPD Detective Nichola Marten's investigation into the murder of his former girlfriend leads him across the globe and to a chance meeting with US President John Henry Harris. But President Harris is on the run from a murderous cabal.
After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Inspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers is a brilliantly funny story of love, longing, and overcoming the shyness that leashes us. On a quiet little block near Central Park, five lonely New Yorkers find one another, compelled to meet by their canine companions. Over the course of four seasons, they emerge from their apartments, in snow, rain, or glorious sunshine to make friends and sometimes fall in love. A love letter to a city full of surprises, The New Yorkers is an enchanting comedy of manners (with dogs!) from one of our most treasured writers.
In some mysterious family feud or unintended slight, Jane Barlow Schwartz lost a friend, her cousin and soul mate, Martha. But years later, surrounded by the exotic wildlife of the Galapagos, Jane and Martha meet again. There, amid the antics of blue-footed boobies and red-lipped batfish, Jane sets off on a quest through her family history to pinpoint the moment when Martha was no longer the Martha she knew. In the process, she ponders instinct, natural selection, and the oddities of evolution that transform us.
It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry, Maitresse du Corps de Ballet at the Paris Opera House, took her small daughter to the funfair at Neuilly. And there, in a cage, she saw a filthy manacled creature whose tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face. It was Antoinette Giry who saved him, freed him, cured his wounds and finally let him find a dwelling place in the labyrinthine depths of the Opera House. The creature - Erik - whose hideous face hid a brilliant brain of near-genius, was to become the Phantom of the Opera - magician, artists, musician, and lover. When he tried to lure the object of his adoration to his underground domain - it was to end in tragedy. It was Madame Giry who saved him once more, set him on a ship to the New World - and there Erik Muhlheim began a new and secret life, a life that began in misery and poverty but in which his incredible skills finally carved out an unexpected kingdom of power. And there it was he learned again of Christine, whose life had changed dramatically since that night in the Paris Opera House. Inevitably, their paths must cross again in the old sequence of tragedy and triumph. The Phantom, one of the most mysterious and romantic figures ever created, soars again in a world of his own making. Frederick Forsyth's magnificent and evocative story adds a new dimension to the legend of the Phantom.
