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"Cher Monsieur Bryce, hier soir, vous avez accédé à un site que vous n'étiez pas autorisé à visiter. Vous avez de nouveau essayé d'y accéder ce soir. Nous n'apprécions pas les visiteurs non sollicités. Si vous parlez à la police de ce que vous avez vu, ce qui va arriver à votre ordinateur arrivera à votre femme, à votre fils et à votre fille. Vos amis de Scarab Productions." S'il avait eu le moindre soupçon de l'effet dévastateur qu'un CD, trouvé sur la banquette d'un train de banlieue, allait avoir sur sa vie, Tom Bryce l'aurait sans doute laissé là où il était.

Mauvaise blague : Michael se retrouve dans un cercueil six pieds sous terre avec du whisky et une revue érotique pour son enterrement de vie de garçon. Les heures passent, personne ne vient le chercher, la fiancée s'inquiète et fait appel à Roy Grace. Pour le localiser, l'inspecteur n'a qu'une seule piste : les témoins du mariage, tous morts dans un accident de voiture.

La femme du commissaire Roy Grace, disparue neuf ans auparavant, aurait-elle enfin été retrouvée ? L'idée le terrifie. Et si les premières constatations du médecin légiste se confirment, il s'agirait bien de son cadavre dans un collecteur d'eaux de Brighton. Cette découverte macabre n'est que la première pièce d'un puzzle. Les autres vont mener Grace dans les décombres des attentats du 11 septembre et sous le soleil d'Australie, avec cette question lancinante : est-il donc si facile de disparaître ?

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination - in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, DC....

Un riche entrepreneur. Une femme désirable. Une maison luxueuse. Un meurtre. Pour le commissaire Roy Grace, de la police de Brighton, l'affaire est limpide : Brian Bishop a assassiné son épouse volage, empochant une coquette prime d'assurance vie. Les tests ADN ne laissent d'ailleurs aucun doute. Mais quelques détails contredisent cette version trop évidente.

The year 1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife, Audrey, and their three-year-old son, Harry. Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family. 

War is coming... It has been months since DCI Robert Kett’s world was almost shattered by the murderous syndicate known as Hollenbeck. What he wants now is a slow return to the job and a handful of easy cases. What he gets, though, is a dead woman in a park, her eyes replaced with molten tin...

Caitlin a seulement 15 ans et son seul espoir de vivre est d'obtenir une greffe de foie, de toute urgence. Mais les listes d'attente sont longues, son groupe sanguin rare et le temps joue contre elle. Aujourd'hui, tout se vend, tout s'achète sur Internet, il suffit de savoir où chercher. Une mère aux abois ne recule devant rien pour sauver son enfant. Et certains le savent... Roy Grace doit agir vite : la mort n'attend pas.

Les psychopathes ne collectionnent pas que les meurtres. Celui qui a terrorisé Brighton, en 1997, avait une passion particulière : les chaussures des femmes, talons hauts uniquement, de marque de préférence. Après chaque agression, le fétichiste emportait, en guise de trophée, une culotte et un escarpin. Mais la sixième agression s'est transformée en meurtre. Une décennie plus tard, le rituel se répète. Une décennie plus tard, le commissaire Roy Grace est toujours obsédé par l'affaire.

Critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer James Lee Burke returns to Louisiana where his ever-popular hero, Dave Robicheaux, sleuths his way through a hotbed of sin and uncertainty. For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past—images from Vietnam...

James Brickman is a detective in the Pacific Northwest. Kidnapped girls, a vengeful serial killer, and a brother-in-law who may go to prison for murder keep him on the job, but his new romance keeps him on his toes.

The second Dave Robicheaux novel from the award-winning crime writer. Dave Robicheaux is trying to put a life of violence and crime behind him, leaving homicide to run a boat-rental business in Louisiana's bayou country. But one day while fishing in the Gulf with his wife Annie, he witnesses an...

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.

The 10th book in James Patterson's Alex Cross series.Alex Cross, FBI agent, is back in his most explosive adventure yet. And so is the Wolf. And so is the Weasel. Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets the call. A town in Nevada has been annihilated and the Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf is claiming responsibility. Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction and the thought of such dark genius at work makes Alex's blood run cold, and he is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger.

It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by...

From the world's most celebrated author, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are ready to escape New York for a vacation in Maine—but a shocking scene deep in the woods reveals a dark world of drugs and murder. Haunted by guilt and shame, Michael Bennett is living with a father's worst...

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir...

Some lines should never be crossed… On a cold November morning, the body of a teenage boy is discovered in a remote playground – not just murdered, but butchered. To DCI Kett and his team, it looks like an open and shut case. The boy was connected to a County Lines gang notorious for its...

His reign of terror must be stopped – for good. After years of searching, DCI Kett has finally found Joseph Maynard, one of the last members of Hollenbeck. A psychopath of the highest order, Maynard’s violent and coercive nature has reared its head too many times in recent cases. But by...