Ali Neuman, the chief of the Cape Town police crime unit, investigates the murder of Nicole Wiese, found in the city's botanical gardens, and the trail soon leads him to a brutal narcotics gang with links to a former official.
US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? And what really goes on in Ward C?
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.
There has never been a writer like James Ellroy.' Telegraph Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese-Americans begins.
Following the hellish murder of a Japanese family, three men and one woman are summoned. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He's superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish emigre, ex-IRA killer and fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll.
Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history's pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its history.
CHOSEN BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE."Detroit Free PressThe '50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a redhot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the Red Menace. Howard Hughes is dodging subpoenas and digging up Kennedy dirt. And Castro is mopping up the bloody aftermath of his new communist nation."HARDBITTEN. . . INGENIOUS. . . ELLROY SEGUES INTO POLITICAL INTRIGUE WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT."The New York TimesIn the thick of it: FBI men Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell. They work every side of the street, jerking the chains of made men, street scum, and celebrities alike, while Pete Bondurant, exrogue cop, freelance enforcer, troubleshooter, and troublemaker, has the conscience to louse it all up."VASTLY ENTERTAINING."Los Angeles TimesMob bosses, politicos, snitches, psychos, fall guys, and femmes fatale. They're mixing up a molotov cocktail guaranteed to end the country's innocence with a bang. Dig that crazy beat: it's America's heart racing out of control. . . ."A SUPREMELY CONTROLLED WORK OF ART."The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Paperback edition.
It's 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness.
The police urgently need Harry Hole A killer is stalking Oslo''s streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can''t help anyone For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can''t protect anyone. Least of all himself.
Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?
Virtuosité du rythme et de la syncope, richesse du langage : la voix singulière de Percy Bysshe Shelley demeure l'une des plus belles et des plus fascinantes de la poésie anglaise. Ode au vent d'Ouest et le long poème visionnaire à la mémoire de John Keats, Adonaïs, comptent parmi les oeuvres les plus importantes du romantisme anglais.
Texte intégral lu par françois d'aubigny. traduit de l'américain par roxane azimi depuis le suicide de spencer, son meilleur ami, adam, 16 ans, est un adolescent sombre, qui passe son temps enfermé dans sa chambre, face à son ordinateur. partagés entre le respect de son intimité et la peur de voir leur fils se faire prendre au piège de la toile du web, ses parents décident d'installer un logiciel espion.
« boucle-la et tu risques rien » : tel est l'alarmant message qu'ils découvrent, rapidement suivi d'une autre révélation : spencer n'était pas seul lors de sa mort. c'est alors qu'un soir adam disparaît...
Comment localiser adam ? à quels jeux dangereux se livrent ces ados en manque de sensations fortes ?
Suspendu à la voix de françois d'aubigny, chaque chapitre vous apportera frisson et étonnement.
Découvrez en VO de nouvelles aventures d'Hamish Macbeth, avec des traductions en marge pour vous aider à bien comprendre le texte original.
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Découvrez en VO de nouvelles aventures de Agatha Raisin, avec des traductions en marge pour vous aider à bien comprendre le texte original. When a series of mysterious assaults on the town's finest gardens is followed by a shocking murder, Agatha gets her wish. Seizing the moment, she immediately starts yanking up village secrets by their roots and digging up details about the victim-who, as it turns out, may just have some hidden dirt of her own...
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Après quantre ans de prison, Matt veut enfin mener une vie normale. Mais les fantômes du passé veillent et vont lui tendre un piège mortel...Un nouveau polar implacable, un véritable cauchemar savamment orchestré par le maître incontesté de nos nuits blanches.
Une clinique new-yorkaise hautement sécurisée. Un médecin qui se suicide. Des patients sauvagement assassinés. Coïncidences ? Complot ? Et si l'annonce prochaine d'une extraordinaire découverte médicale avait déclenché cette vague meurtrière ? Sara Lowell, jeune journaliste très en vue, mène l'enquête. Mais ses révélations pourraient bien faire d'elle la prochaine victime d'un mystérieux serial killer...
Guerre des lobbies pharmaceutiques, machination politique, pression des médias, mensonges... Au coeur d'un débat toujours aussi brûlant, un thriller angoissant et terriblement réaliste par celui qui allait devenir le maître de vos nuits blanches.
Vous pensiez tout connaître de Myron Bolitar ? Détrompez- vous.
Après Sans laisser d'adresse, le maître de vos nuits blanches entraîne le plus célèbre agent des stars dans une enquête diabolique, à la recherche d'un frère disparu depuis seize ans. Une ancienne gloire du tennis harcelée sur le Net. Un groupe de rock mythique aux abonnés absents. Un couple en pleine crise. De douloureux secrets de famille qui remontent à la surface... Chantage, vengeance, meurtres, drogue et rock'n'roll.
Et si de beaux mensonges valaient mieux qu'une monstrueuse vérité ?
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon. One of the party is found murdered, and tension mounts as the survivors realize that the killer is not only among them, but is willing to strike again... and again.
Criminal psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware is pushed to his limit like never before in Breakdown by New York Times No.1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman. Fans of Michael Connelly and Harlan Coben will love this sabre-sharp storytelling from the master of psychological suspense. Dr. Alex Delaware first meets beautiful and emotionally fragile actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly reunited with Zelda when she is involuntarily committed after a bizarre psychotic episode. But tragedy strikes and shortly after her release, Zelda is discovered dead in the grounds of a palatial L.A. estate. Having experienced more than enough of the city's dark side to recognise the scent of evil, Alex turns to his friend, LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis, for help in finding the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Alex is caught up in another quest: the search for Zelda's missing son. And when other victims vanish from the same upscale neighborhood, worry turns to terror. As Alex struggles to piece together the brief rise and steep fall of a gorgeous, talented actress, he and Milo unveil shattered dreams, the corruption of a family, and a grotesque betrayal of innocence. With each devastating revelation and damning clue, Alex's brilliant mind is challenged as never before - and his determination grows to see a killer caged and the truth set free.
Modern fictionA moving novel of love, solitude and violence, following a man who lives alone in the Maine woods and is disturbed by the shooting of his dog. From the author of Schopenhauer's Telescope. 'A devastatingly good novel.' Observer
