***BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2021 - THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES***
***CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH - THE TIMES***
'Savage, beautiful, mesmeric...a very special book.' CHRIS WHITAKER, AUTHOR OF WE BEGIN AT THE END
'Extraordinary...a career-defining performance.' THE TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES
'This is crime writing of the highest quality' DAILY MAIL
SOHO, 1935.
SERGEANT LEON GEATS' PATCH.
A snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals the grimy rabble according to his own elastic moral code.
The narrow alleys are brimming with jazz bars, bookies, blackshirts, ponces and tarts so when a body is found above the Windmill Club, detectives are content to dismiss the case as just another young woman who topped herself early.
But Geats - a good man prepared to be a bad one if it keeps the worst of them at bay - knows the dark seams of the city.
Working with his former partner, mercenary Flying Squad sergeant Mark Cassar, Geats obsessively dedicates himself to finding a warped killer - a decision that will reverberate for a lifetime and transform both men in ways they could never expect.
'A stirringly ambitious novel that pairs the scope of James Ellroy's LA CONFIDENTIAL with the psychological depth of Graham Greene's BRIGHTON ROCK. Extraordinary.' A. J. FINN
'A tour de force. A brilliant marriage of tension and rich detail.' HARRIET TYCE
'An epic, brutal, blockbuster of a crime novel. It's the best film noir you've never seen complete with a love story that might just rip your heart out.' TREVOR WOOD
'An enthralling tale that takes you into the seamy heart of Soho's past. Written in Nolan's visceral, muscular prose, it is a joy to read.' LESLEY KARA
'A rich, ambitious, masterpiece of a crime novel' OLIVIA KIERNAN
'Poetic and tragic...but also vibrant, with a great depth of world and character' JAMES DELARGY
Praise for Dominic Nolan:
'Nolan is set to become Britain's Michael Connelly' DAILY MAIL
'This powerhouse novel is not for the fragile-hearted...one hell of a debut' HEAT
'A smart, distinctive debut' SUNDAY MIRROR
Une enquête de l'agent sportif Myron Bolitar, qui s'attaque cette fois au petit monde des fairways.
Myron Bolitar et le golf, ça fait plutôt deux. Mais tout agent sportif de premier plan se doit de compter un virtuose du swing dans son équipe. Et voilà qu'un couple de golfeurs de renommée mondiale est prêt à signer avec lui. À condition qu'il retrouve leur fils, Chad, enlevé alors que son père dispute l'US Open... " Avec ce nouvel opus, l'écrivain américain nous prouve qu'il est toujours aussi diablement efficace. " Angélique Giorgi - La Marseillaise
Myron Bolitar : un prénom à coucher dehors et un physique de tombeur. Ex-champion de basket, ex-agent du FBI, il est désormais agent sportif et défend les intérêts des jeunes espoirs du stade.
Myron Bolitar ! Y en a pas deux comme lui. D'agent du FBI à agent sportif, la reconversion aurait dû être facile. Erreur. Son nouveau job n'est pas de tout repos non plus. Même le tennis peut s'avérer dangereux : toutes les balles ne sont pas amorties et certaines sont mortelles... C'est le cas pour Valérie Simpson, ex-star de la raquette, frappée en plein coeur au milieu des milliers de spectateurs de l'US Open. Myron devrait se contenter de la version officielle : "balle perdue". Sauf que la veille, Valérie a tenté de le joindre. A peine sortie d'un hôpital psychiatrique, que voulait-elle lui dire ?
Et c'est reparti ! Avec son vieux pote Win, dandy sans peur et sans scrupules, Myron monte au filet. Or, quand on a pour adversaires la Mafia et un sénateur ripou, le jeu est décisif...
Myron Bolitar : un prénom à coucher dehors et un physique de tombeur. Ex-champion de basket, ex-agent du FBI, il est désormais agent sportif et défend les intérêts des jeunes espoirs du stade.
Ex-champion de basket, Myron Bolitar a fait un détour par le FBI avant de devenir agent sportif. Mais on ne tourne pas le dos à son passé aussi facilement... Il se voit ainsi proposer un curieux marché par Clip Arnstein, le puissant manager des Dragons du New Jersey. Une place dans l'équipe, en échange d'une enquête discrète auprés des autres joueurs pour retrouver la trace de Greg Downing, la star du basket, mystérieusement disparue. Mais pour Myron, ce maillot de remplaçant représente plus qu'une couverture pour son enquête, et il lui est bien difficile de ne pas se laisser prendre au jeu. Tandis qu'il se lance sur la piste de Greg, avec l'aide de ses fidèles acolytes, Win, le dandy un peu braque, et la belle Esperanza, ex-catcheuse professionnelle, l'affaire se corse d'un meurtre. Il lui faudra affronter ses vieux démons pour découvrir la clef de l'énigme...
THE FIRST GRAY MAN NOVEL FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MARK GREANEY - now a Netflix original film starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans
'Hard, fast, and unflinching-exactly what a thriller should be.' Lee Child
To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target.
But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. In their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness.
But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there's no grey area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive...
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'Bourne for the new millenium' New York Times bestselling author James Rollins
'A high-octane thriller that doesn't pause for more than a second for all of its 464 pages...For readers looking for a thriller where the action comes fast and furious, this is the ticket.' Chicago Sun-Times
'Take fictional spy Jason Bourne, pump him up with Red Bull and meth, shake vigorously-and you've got the recipe for Court Gentry.' The Memphis Commercial Appeal
'From the opening pages, the bullets fly and the bodies pile up. Through the carnage, Gentry remains an intriguing protagonist with his own moral code.' Booklist
Meurtres, disparitions, faux-semblants... un suspense explosif par le maître de nos nuits blanches.
Un ami en danger Une bagarre qui dégénère Un accident À vingt ans, Matt Hunter est devenu un assassin.
Treize ans plus tard, il mène enfin une vie paisible avec la femme qu'il aime, Olivia, enceinte de leur premier enfant. Et puis, un jour, sur son portable, une vidéo d'Olivia dans une chambre d'hôtel en compagnie d'un inconnu.
Le cauchemar recommence.
Terrifying, thrilling and addictive - the celebrated tale of chilling murder, played out on the bleak, eerie wilds of a West Country moor.
The greatest detective of them all is back... 'Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face'. Death by natural causes? Sherlock Holmes knows that Sir Charles Baskerville's demise was due to no such thing. Was he killed by a phantom hound or is this the work of a calculating murderer?
Deux nouvelles aventures du plus célèbre détective anglais, Sherlock Holmes, en version bilingue.
La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose :
o une
traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de
nombreuses noteso une
méthode originale de perfectionnement par un contact direct avec les oeuvres d'auteurs étrangers
o une
adaptation en version numérique étudiée, qui offre au lecteur trois manières de découvrir le texte : en version bilingue, en version originale et en version française.
Deux aventures de Sherlock Holmes / Two Adventures of Sherlock Holmes de CONAN DOYLE reprend les nouvelles :
La Bande mouchetée -
The Adventure of the Speckled BandUne jeune femme meurt en évoquant, dans un dernier souffle, une bande mouchetée. Sa soeur fait appel à Sherlock Holmes pour élucider le mystère dans lequel elle se trouve plongée à son tour.
Les Trois Étudiants -
The Three StudentsÀ la veille du concours d'une célèbre université, le directeur des études découvre que le texte d'une épreuve a été copié. Appelé à la rescousse pour sauvegarder l'honneur et la réputation de l'institution, Holmes parviendra-t-il à démasquer le fraudeur ?
Trois nouvelles aventures du plus célèbre détective anglais, Sherlock Holmes, en version bilingue.
La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose :o une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes ;o une méthode originale de perfectionnement par un contact direct avec les oeuvres d'auteurs étrangers ;o une adaptation en version numérique étudiée, qui offre au lecteur trois manières de découvrir le texte : en version bilingue, en version originale et en version française.Sherlock Holmes enquête / Sherlock Holmes investigates reprend les trois nouvelles suivantes :Le Mystère du val Boscombe / The Boscombe Valley MysteryLes Cinq Pépins d'orange / The Five Orange PipsLa Pensionnaire voilée / The Veiled Lodger
THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON
OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
THE BOOK THAT DEFINES PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Who are you?
What have we done to each other?
These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
'Flynn is a brilliantly accomplished psychological crime writer and this latest book is so dark, so twisted and so utterly compelling that it actually messes with your mind' DAILY MAIL
'A near-masterpiece. Flynn is an extraordinary writer who, with every sentence, makes words do things that other writers merely dream of' SOPHIE HANNAH, Sunday Express
'You think you're reading a good, conventional thriller and then it grows into a fascinating portrait of one averagely mismatched relationship...Nothing's as it seems - Flynn is a fabulous plotter, and a very sharp observer of modern life in the aftermath of the credit crunch' THE TIMES
'One of the most popular thrillers of the year is also one of the smartest... Flynn's book cleverly outpaces its neo-noir trappings and consistently surprises the reader.' FINANCIAL TIMES
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.
Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.
Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .
A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
The sixteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times
Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward.
The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.
He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow . . .
Praise for the groundbreaking series:
'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian
'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times
'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph
'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror
'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express
'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read' TIMES
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Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.
And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . .
A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.
*** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! ***
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PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES:
'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM
'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES
'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER
'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Deliriously clever' GUARDIAN
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Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.
Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.
With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...
A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. You will not be able to put this book down.
*** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! ***
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PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES:
'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM
'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES
'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER
'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS
THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON
'Eerily macabre... Wonderful' Guardian
'A nerve-fraying thriller' New York Times
'Every bit as horribly fascinating as In Cold Blood' Daily Mail
Libby Day was seven when her family was murdered: she survived by hiding in a closet - and famously testified that her older brother Ben was the killer.
Twenty-five years later the Kill Club - a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes - gets in touch with Libby to try to discover proof that may free Ben. Almost broke, Libby agrees to go back to her hometown to investigate - for a fee.
But when Libby's search uncovers an unimaginable truth, she finds herself right back where she started: on the run from a killer.
THE ORIGINAL #1 BESTSELLER, BY THE AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL
'I would rather read her than just about any other crime writer' Kate Atkinson
'Gillian Flynn is the real deal: a sharp, acerbic and compelling storyteller' Stephen King
'An extraordinarily good writer' Observer
Mr Monster is the second chilling novel in Dan Wells's John Wayne Carver series, and the follow up to I Am Not A Serial Killer - now a major motion picture.
John Wayne Cleaver has always known he has a dark side but he's fought hard to oppress it and live a normal life - separating John from Mr Monster to survive. But after confronting and destroying the vicious killer that was terrorizing his town, his inner monster is getting stronger and harder to contain.
And now more bodies are being discovered...
With the police failing to catch Clayton County's second serial killer John is going to have to use his secret knowledge of the first demon-killer to trap the second...but will he be able to avoid suspicion falling on him, and, in the face of extreme horrors, will he be able to restrain Mr Monster?
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
The superb third Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic was a floating tomb. Embedded in the great gleaming mass was a ship - sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protruded.
Here was a sea mystery to rank alongside the Bermuda Triangle and the Marie Celeste. But for Major Dirk Pitt, top troubleshooter for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, it was also the first link in a fantastic chain of events that would lead him too close - and too often - to violent death. And to the discovery of the most sinister and bizarre conspiracy of the century . . . ICEBERG.
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Trois nouvelles aventures du plus célèbre détective anglais, Sherlock Holmes, en version bilingue. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose :
o une
traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de
nombreuses noteso une
méthode originale de perfectionnement par un contact direct avec les oeuvres d'auteurs étrangers
o une
adaptation en version numérique étudiée, qui offre au lecteur trois manières de découvrir le texte : en version bilingue, en version originale et en version française.
The Musgrave Ritual /Le rituel des Musgrave
Que cache le mystérieux comportement du maître d'hôtel d'une des plus vieilles familles du Royaume-Uni, dans un manoir du Sussex ? Un document étrange permettra-t-il de résoudre l'énigme ?The Final Problem/ Le problème final
L'affrontement final de Sherlock Holmes avec son mortel ennemi, le Professeur Moriarty, et sa disparition (souhaitée par Conan Doyle...) au fond d'un précipice alpin. Sous la pression de l'opinion publique indignée, il devra consentir à le ressusciter, et Holmes réapparaîtra dans la nouvelle qui suit.The Adventure of the Empty House/ L'aventure de la maison vide.
Le mystère de la mort d'un jeune aristocrate londonien, dont le corps a été découvert dans une pièce fermée à clé de l'intérieur, défraie la chronique mondaine. Le piège monté par Sherlock Holmes se refermera-t-il sur le coupable ?
The star of JUSTIFIED returns in a stunning new novel from 'the greatest crime writer who ever lived' [Dennis Lehane].
US Marshal Raylan Givens, star of the series JUSTIFIED, and protagonist of RIDING THE RAP, PRONTO and the story 'Fire in the Hole', is back in action, this time with a federal warrant to serve on a dope dealer named Angel Arenas, a man 'born in the U.S. but a hundred percent of him Hispanic'. The state troopers are impressed when the marshal struts into the convict's hotel room without drawing his gun, but Raylan soon finds that Angel's already been the victim of another crime, one that's way bigger than a few pot plants, and clearly the work of a professional ...
RAYLAN shows Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, as we follow one of his favourite protagonists through a series of adventures with unlikely villains. As ever, the work is filled with unexpected twists and the most vibrant, crackling dialogue currently available in the English language.
A case reeking of scandal before the body is even cold...
Half Moon Street is the twentieth crime novel in the bestselling Thomas Pitt mystery series, by the master storyteller of Victorian society, Anne Perry. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Sarah Perry.
'A splendidly plotted yarn' - Publishers Weekly
For Superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. He lies in a battered punt drifting through the morning mist, his arms and legs chained to the boat's sides. He is clad in a torn green gown and flowers bestrew his battered body.
Pitt's determined search for answers to the victim's identity leads him deep into London's bohemia - to the theatre where beautiful Cecily Antrim is outraging society with her bold portrayal of a modern woman - and into studios where masters of light and shadow are experimenting with the fascinating new art of photography. But only Pitt's most relentless pursuit enables him to identify the wildfire passions raging through this tragedy of good and evil, to hunt down the guilty and protect the
innocent.
What readers are saying about Half Moon Street:
'I found the plot suspenseful and fascinating'
'Half Moon Street is cleverly plotted and comes to a satisfying and surprising conclusion'
'Five stars
'Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position'. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door ... When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective's life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain...
A collection of gripping cases that culminates in the most shocking of all - the notorious, fatal encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.
'He is the Napoleon of Crime...He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city'. A man like Sherlock Holmes has many enemies. Violent murderers, deviant villains, ghosts of old loves, blackmailers and poisonous scribes, to to name but a few. But none are so deadly, so powerful, as Professor Moriarty. Moriarty - the only man who can compete with Holmes' genius. The only man who can, perhaps, ultimately defeat the great detective ...
'Riveting! Bussi spins psychological suspense at its finest with this consuming tale of one child, two families, and the dark secrets that define us all. Clear your schedule; this book is worth it!' - Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Crash & Burn and Find Her
On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one rich, the other poor, step forward to claim her, sparking an investigation that will last for almost two decades. Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie?
Eighteen years later, having failed to discover the truth, private detective Crédule Grand-Duc plans to take his own life, but not before placing an account of his investigation in the girl's hands. But, as he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger, he uncovers a secret that changes everything - then is killed before he can breathe a word of it to anyone . . .
Chief Inspector Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell, heroes of Peter May's best-selling China thrillers, return in a new story. A girl has disappeared in Peking, and the mystery is somehow connected to a strange marital rite from China's past: the Minghun, or Ghost Marriage.
Winners of France's Pix Intramuros in 2007, Peter May once again takes his readers on a powerful, fascinating exploration of modern China.
