Résultats pour "kill" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Pour fuir l'ombre d'un père tristement célèbre, Jane a changé d'identité. Aujourd'hui, elle s'appelle Jenny, elle est vétérinaire et vit avec son mari Mark et leurs deux enfants dans un paisible village du Devon. Un matin, elle reprend connaissance allongée sur le sol de sa cuisine, les ongles couverts de terre. Et aucun souvenir de ce qui a bien pu se passer... Un peu plus tard, elle apprend qu'une jeune femme a disparu la veille au soir. Jenny connaissait cette femme. Elle avait même de bonnes raisons de lui en vouloir...

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.

Il y a deux ans, Beth et Tom Hardcastle tombaient amoureux d'un joli cottage au toit de chaume et décidaient de quitter Londres pour s'installer à la campagne. Tom fait chaque jour le trajet en train pour aller travailler à la City, tandis que Beth tient le coffee-shop qu'elle a ouvert dans le village et s'occupe de Poppy, leur fillette de trois ans. Beth et Tom forment un couple idéal, qu'envient leurs voisins et amis. Jusqu'à ce jour où deux policiers viennent sonner à leur porte... Tom serait impliqué dans une affaire criminelle... Et il se murmure bien vite que Beth savait tout...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN' 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man...

Oubliée dans la campagne du Kansas, à Kill Creek, une demeure ancienne se dresse au bout d'une sombre route de prairie. Elle est restée vide, abandonnée et en proie à la végétation pendant bien des années. Bientôt, sa porte se rouvrira pour la première fois depuis des décennies. Mais quelque chose attend, qui rôde dans les ténèbres, avide d'accueillir ses nouveaux visiteurs...

Two high school teachers—Amber Dorris and Leticia Laye—become obsessed with a true-crime podcast about the 1999 murder of 12-year-old Sarah Gerlach. Amber’s marriage to her real estate agent husband Gary is on the rocks. As a distraction, she and Letitia become increasingly absorbed by the case against local Blake Wernerhet. Blake was convicted of murdering Sarah, who was the little sister of a friend of his. While he maintains his innocence, everything points to this man being a vicious killer of an innocent girl.

Doreen Diller wants to be a movie star. But after 15 years of failed auditions, she’s yet to garner a single callback from a Hollywood producer. Determined to hit the big time before she turns 40, she pins her hopes on a job assisting soap opera heartthrob Tad Longmire. He could be the answer to her dreams—or the beginning of her nightmares. While filming a new TV series starring Tad, a stabbing death rocks the set. Unfortunately for Doreen, the role of murder suspect is finally one she appears ideally suited to play. 

An unforgettable fantasy set in a city peopled with ruffians, spies, malcontents and murderers. Experience out-of-this world adventure and dangerous politics as Maggie tries to survive waking up in her favourite fictional world. A heart-pounding epic from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author...

Halloween Kills is an upcoming American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems. It is a sequel to 2018’s Halloween and the 12th installment in the Halloween franchise. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprising their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, with James Jude Courtney also portraying Myers.  

Nominated for the Booker Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's...

Sale temps pour les élites... C'est un grand jour pour les Dead Hunters. Les tueurs les plus impitoyables que la Terre ait portés vont être récompensés pour leurs services déloyaux par le président des États-Unis en personne. Sanchez, le barman homicide de Santa Mondega et Flake, son irrésistible serveuse, sont chargés d'aller recevoir les décorations. Hélas pour eux, ils arrivent trop tard : le président vient d'être assassiné. Le même jour, des dizaines d'autres riches et puissants subissent le même sort. Carton plein.

Against a backdrop of modernisation, extravagant luxury, political intrigue and sexual immorality, Saccard treats close relationships as money-making opportunities and loved ones as mere commodities. As one character puts it: ‘You see, everything is fine, as long as you make money from it.’

In this new romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Letizia Lorini, a crime podcast host must solve a chilling serial killer case while navigating an unexpected romance with her mysterious next-door neighbor. Scarlett Moore doesn’t do romance. She’s made a name for herself narrating gritty...

Un tueur en série découvre qu'on imite ses crimes. Il pourchasse celui qui ose signer à sa place. Quand Nathan Rey, expert en criminologie, est approché par un policier de Grey Oaks, une petite ville de l'est des États-Unis, il ignore encore qu'un journal découvert dans une maison...

Hannah Wilson can't text her ex again - it's too sad. She can't snap back at the new boss who took her promotion either - she'll be fired. But what she can do is write a series of furious letters to William Thompson, arrested for the murders of multiple women he got close to.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the new Paris, everything is for sale—including family, honor, and flesh. Aristide Saccard arrived in the capital with nothing but ambition and a willingness to profit from others' ruin. Now, as Baron Haussmann's demolition crews tear through...

A new, twists-galore DI Barton thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood. The winter holidays finally look set to bring a white Christmas, but the beautiful snow hides horrors beneath. When a man is found cruelly tortured and murdered, the Major Crimes team is already stretched thin...

Helen Harper presents Book 5 in the Cat Lady Chronicles...

Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. ‘A cathartic novel, I hasten to point out, not a how-to guide’ Lucy Mangan, Good Housekeeping * * * * * He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone. I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t...

For years, two sisters have vied for the turf of their dead crime boss father. Across the streets of Guatemala City, bodies have piled up; the US Drug Enforcement Agency, operating far from its own borders, is powerless to stop the fighting. But now one sister has a weapon that could finally win the war - a cold, amoral hitman known, fittingly, as 'Victor'. Freed from previous employers the CIA and MI6, Victor is a killer for hire whose sense of self-preservation trumps all else. Yet as betrayal and counterbetrayal unspool in the vicious family feud, Victor finds himself at the centre of a storm even he could be powerless to stop.