Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Romans policiers et crimes internationaux

1925. Tout semble si déréglé qu'une prédiction qui annonce la fin des temps au solstice d'hiver se fait de plus en plus entendre. Pour Martial de la Boissière, cette fin des temps correspond plutôt au naufrage d'un voilier au large de l'île de Bréhat.

"When I say, therefore, that [my brother] has better powers of observation than I...I am speaking the exact and literal truth." (Sherlock Holmes) This story occurs when Mycroft, an athletic Cambridge graduate, assists the secretary of state. He becomes embroiled in a mystery in Trinidad based on actual history. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a huge Holmesian, seven feet two inches tall, basketball's all-time leading scorer, and a US cultural ambassador. Anna Waterhouse is a professional screenwriter and script consultant.

Tout commence par une banale opération du genou dans un hôpital réputé. Mais Carl ne se réveillera pas de l'anesthésie. Et l'IRM confirme le décès de ce jeune homme pourtant en parfaite santé. Complication post-anesthésique, invoquent les médecins. Lynn, sa petite amie, refuse ce diagnostic. D'autant que le cas de Carl est loin d'être isolé... Elle se lance alors, au péril de sa vie, dans une enquête qui risque de faire éclater l'un des plus gros scandales du siècle.

Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and contempt. This wasn't a case for him. He was out of his depth. This world was unfamiliar to him, and he had difficulty piecing it all together. Peacefully tending his garden in the countryside, Maigret is called upon to investigate a rich family with skeletons in their cupboard - and finds himself confronted by lies, snobbery and malice.

Des meurtres en série. Une secte sanguinaire surgie du passé. Six pages mystérieusement disparues d'un célèbre manuscrit du XIIIe siècle. Ari Mackenzie, analyste atypique et controversé des Renseignements généraux, est confronté à la plus extraordinaire et la plus violente affaire de sa carrière. Dans l'ombre, un groupe occulte est prêt à tout pour redécouvrir le secret des pages manquantes du célèbre carnet de Villard de Honnecourt.

A new translation of this moving novel about the destructive power of greed. Poor Cécile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely 28 years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully, in spite of the care she took to be friendly and pleasant. Those black dresses that she must make for herself from bad paper patterns, that ridiculous green hat!

A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful roller-coaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations and unexpected twists.

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she’s no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her collegues Sævar and Hörður commence an uneasy investigation which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman’s past that continues to reverberate in the present day.

Vancouver is the so-called City of Glass. A nice place, in any case, and much too nice for noir. Looked at from afar, Vancouver may seem idyllic. But living here is different - cold and baffling and occasionally hostile. While outsiders focus on high-test BC bud, locals see a heroin crisis: Vancouver is home to the first legalized safe-injection site in North America, now heavily taxed by overdoses resulting from street drugs cut with fentanyl.

A circus performer turned superspy is caught up in a Cold War web of conspiracy and death when the body of a murdered CIA agent is discovered in a Hawaiian marine park. By any definition, Ringling Wallenda Grove is an extraordinary man. The son of expatriate Russian former circus owners, he mastered the arts of acrobatics, animal training, and magic at a young age; distinguished himself as an officer in World War II; and went on to amass a fortune of several million dollars before going into semiretirement. But there is another side to this man that few know about.

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies. This collection, with voices of French and English writers, visits many neighborhoods and combines them into something that is, if not totally coherent, at least as coherent as the beautiful mess that is Montreal....

Josy, douze ans, la fille du célèbre psychiatre berlinois Viktor Larenz, est atteinte d'une maladie qu'aucun médecin ne parvient à diagnostiquer. Un jour, après que son père l'a accompagnée chez l'un de ses confrères, elle disparaît. Quatre ans ont passé. Larenz est toujours sans nouvelles de sa fille quand une inconnue frappe à sa porte. Anna Spiegel, romancière, prétend souffrir d'une forme rare de schizophrénie : les personnages de ses récits prennent vie sous ses yeux.

Death in the Andamans is a masterpiece of mystery and romance from one of our most beloved authors. When a violent storm lashes the tiny Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, Copper Randal barely manages a safe return to Government House. She does get back in one piece with her hostess, Valerie Masson, Val's fiancé, and handsome naval officer Nick Tarrent, but one of the islanders is unaccounted for when the boats return to harbor.

Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and the snow falling relentlessly, Ari Thor Arason discovers that the victim's mother and young sister also lost their lives in this same spot, 25 years earlier....

Les fans du brillant et excentrique agent du FBI Aloysius Pendergast l'ignoraient : il avait été marié avant de perdre sa femme lors d'un safari, en Afrique - sous les crocs d'un lion. Douze ans après le drame, Pendergast découvre qu'il ne s'agissait pas d'un accident, comme il le pensait jusque-là, mais d'un meurtre... Qui pouvait en vouloir à Hélène ? Pourquoi a-t-elle été tuée ? Épaulé par son fidèle Vincent D'Agosta, de la police de New York, Pendergast n'aura de cesse de résoudre l'énigme.

The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon, by prize-winning Chinese novelist Liu Zhenyun, is a novel of Beijing that paints a microcosm of contemporary China, dealing with classes at the two extremes: the super rich and the migrant workers who make them rich through deceit and corruption. The protagonist, Liu Yuejin, is a worksite cook and small-time thief whose bag is stolen. In searching for it, he stumbles upon another bag, which contains a flash disk that chronicles high-level corruption.

Installé aux États-Unis depuis la mort de sa mère, Damien Louvel, scénariste d'une série télévisée à succès, doit rentrer en France à la suite du décès tragique de son père. Il découvre que celui-ci menait des recherches autour d'un mystérieux objet - la pierre de Iorden -, qui semblent lui avoir coûté la vie. Aidé de Sophie, une journaliste dont il tombe amoureux, Damien décide de poursuivre les étranges investigations de son père, et se lance dans une course effrénée.

Trinidad Noir reveals the Caribbean island’s darkness and its appeal with an unexpected and gratifying result. Features brand-new stories by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, Vahni Capildeo, Willi Chen, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Keith Jardim, Reena Andrea Manickchand, Tiphanie Yanique, and more.

Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town in this new translation. A short, sprightly man appeared in the doorway, looked left and right, and went back into the passage. A moment later, the improbable happened. The little man reappeared, bent over, clinging to a long mass that he now started dragging through the mud. It must have been heavy. After four metres, he stopped to catch his breath. The front door of the house had been left open.

After simultaneous deadly terror attacks on San Diego and Washington, DC, hammer the nation, Nathan learns that the mass murders weren't random events - they targeted his family. And the threat is far from over. Part of a larger plot involving a sabotaged North Korean bioweapons facility and an ISIS training camp in northern Mexico, a third attack - bigger than 9/11 - is being hatched by cold-blooded killers.