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…Mama's going to show you the horrors she's endured.
Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family.
[lire la quatrième du livre Delicate Condition]
Livres Policier et thriller
But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Secret Hours]
Lights. Camera. Lies.
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Reappearance of Rachel Price]
The award-winning debut novel by New York Times bestseller C.J. Box, Open Season is the first in the hugely successful Joe Pickett series, now adapted into the hit Paramount TV show Joe Pickett, streaming on Paramount UK. There’s nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep.
[lire la quatrième du livre Open Season]
"Madison Kate Danvers foi assassinada esta noite."Essas palavras mudaram minha vida e não para melhor.Elas estavam erradas, é claro.Eu não estava morta.Mas eu fui incriminada.Depois de ser acusada de uma série de transgressões – e ser usada como um exemplo pelo meu pai com interesse político – enfim fui solta em Shadow Grove com uma coisa em minha mente.Ódio.
[lire la quatrième du livre Hate]
London, 1590. Queen Elizabeth I's control over her kingdom is wavering. Amidst a tumultuous backdrop of Spanish plotters, Catholic heretics and foreign wars threatening the country's fragile stability, the body of a small boy is found in the City of London, with strange marks that no one can explain.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Angel's Mark]
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Alienist]
Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again.
Not everything lying dormant should return. But something has.
[lire la quatrième du livre A World of Curiosities]
'A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine' Washington PostThe small town of Castle Rock, Maine, has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now.
[lire la quatrième du livre Gwendy's Button Box]
In Washington D.C., thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock's Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she was entrusted - or some might say cursed - with the extraordinary button box by Richard Farris, the mysterious stranger in the black suit.
[lire la quatrième du livre Gwendy's Magic Feather]
Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale.
It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true – until the day it did . . .
They buy a drab portrait for twenty pounds for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out.
[lire la quatrième du livre Picture You Dead]
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby.
[lire la quatrième du livre THE MALTESE FALCON]
THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.
[lire la quatrième du livre Snakehead]
A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving ??oethe Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division.
[lire la quatrième du livre Desert Star]
The gripping new thriller from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of Stay Close and The Stranger . . .
[lire la quatrième du livre The Match]
With time running out, Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum race to Vincenzo's last known location in Trenton, New Jersey -- and unknowingly stumble straight into John Puller's case, blowing his arrest during a drug ring investigation involving a military installation.
[lire la quatrième du livre Daylight]
From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES 'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.'THE TIMES* * * * *'He's gone...'When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news.
Her husband has been missing for two days.
[lire la quatrième du livre A Song for the Dark Times]
To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Pale Horse]
In City of Margins , the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s.
[lire la quatrième du livre City Of Margins]
In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance and finds that family relationships are always a tricky proposition--even for Botswana's premier female detective.Mma Ramotswe has reconnected with an old friend who has been having problems with her daughter.
[lire la quatrième du livre To The Land Of Long Lost Friends]
Murder and family secrets, a touch of romance and deeply-felt revenge - with the twist of all twists - make up the perfect page-turning thriller, One Good Deed, from one of the world's bestselling thriller writers, David Baldacci. 'One of his finest books. Great character, great story, great portrait of an era' Bill Clinton In 1949, Aloysius Archer arrives in the dusty Southern town of Poca City.
[lire la quatrième du livre One Good Deed]
Marc and his partner - former US Delta Force sniper Lucy Keyes - are pitted against their most terrifying challenge yet, when a genius bio-researcher with the ability to create a deadly biological weapon is kidnapped by a ruthless terrorist.
Their desperate search for the missing scientist takes them across the world, from the desolate wilderness of Iceland to the slums of the Near [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Shadow]
Redemption is the fifth heart-pounding Memory Man thriller from number one international bestseller David Baldacci.FBI consultant Amos Decker returns to the scene of a family tragedy, and is confronted by more than just painful memories.A felon on a mission.When Decker returns to Burlington, Ohio, he is tracked down by his first homicide arrest, Meryl Hawkins, a man who still maintains his [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Redemption]
'Sensational – the best what-if thriller since The Da Vinci Code ' - Lee Child, author of Killing Floor . From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes an explosive standalone thriller for fans of Dan Brown that will grip you and won't let go until the very last page.
[lire la quatrième du livre Absolute Proof]
Her name is Atlee Pine, the latest creation from bestselling author David Baldacci. She has unstoppable tenacity, always a fighter who is unwilling to cede any ground. She has endured real nightmares and she has the emotional and physical scars to show for it. And she got that long before she became an adult. She is a FBI Special Agent assigned to the wilds of the western US.
[lire la quatrième du livre Long Road to Mercy]
Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.
Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive note of [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Pet semetary]
Agatha Christie's first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover - includes for the first time the original courtroom climax as an alternate ending. 'Beware! Peril to the detective who says: "It is so small - it does not matter..." Everything matters.' After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Mysterious Affair at Styles]
As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other [...]]
Lord Bellington, Carsely's biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing.
[lire la quatrième du livre Agatha Raisin: Pushing up Daisies]
Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place, which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be.
[lire la quatrième du livre Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes]
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman…Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his ‘counting house’ when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple’s suspicion that here she was [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre A Pocket Full of Rye]
CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930)
Trois aventures de Sherlock Holmes
Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Nouvelles traduites et présentées par Jean-Pierre Berman
Le Vampire du Sussex – The Sussex Vampire
La nouvelle épouse d'un négociant en thé du Sussex a-t-elle eu un accès ...
[lire la quatrième du livre Trois aventures - Three Adventures]
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings...First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond...then came the 'suicide' that was murder...the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat...a suspicious death in a locked gun-room...a million dollar bond robbery...the curse of a pharoah's tomb...a jewel robbery by the sea...
[lire la quatrième du livre Poirot Investigates]
1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.
[lire la quatrième du livre And Then There Were None]
Trei fete singure împart un apartament în Londra. Prima este secretar?, a doua lucreaz? la o galerie de art?, iar a treia, care vine la Hercule Poirot pentru a-i cere ajutorul, m?rturise?te c? a comis o crim?, apoi dispare înainte de a-i da acestuia mai multe detalii. De?i exist? informa?ii despre un foc de revolver, un cu?it ?i urme de sânge, va fi necesar? o investiga?ie a lui Poirot ?i a [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Third Girl]
Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs. Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila's secretarial agency and asking for her by name -- yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre The Clocks]