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Two gripping novellas from the number one international best-selling author. Women Without Mercy and Truth or Dare.

New York Times Bestselling Author “The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” —New York Times Book Review Jackie Burke’s future looks grim. She’s been a flight attendant for twenty years and she’s down to working for an island–hopping airline the day she lands in Palm...

Dans la lignée de La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert, un premier roman noir d'une grande finesse psychologique ; une réflexion grinçante sur la bonne société puritaine américaine, qui, sous la perfection de ses apparences, cache une obsession névrotique pour l'innocence de la jeunesse.

When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand's stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway's security services might be involved in the murder. With her trusted colleagues, Gunnarstranda and Frølich, at her side, Lena digs deep into the case and finds that it not only goes to the heart of the Norwegian establishment, but it might be rather too close to her personal life for comfort.

Первый роман королевы ирландского детектива Таны Френч, положивший начало культовому дублинскому циклу! Одним теплым летним вечером 1984 года в лесу возле небольшого пригорода Дублина потерялись трое детей — два мальчика и девочка. Позже полиция найдет лишь одного выжившего в лесной чаще — исцарапанный и избитый 12-летний мальчик в ужасе жался к стволу дерева. Его кроссовки пропитаны кровью, а сам он не помнит ничего, что случилось в тот день. Двух остальных детей так и не нашли... Прошло двадцать лет. Повзрослев, найденный в лесу мальчик меняет имя на Роб Райан.

La vengeance du maître du Kremlin se mange toujours glacée. Punir la France de son soutien à l'Ukraine, telle est la mission assignée par Poutine à ses services de sécurité. Un plan démoniaque que la DGSE doit faire échouer. Mais que pèse son meilleur agent, le brillant "avocat international" Edgar Van Scana, face au rouleau compresseur des renseignements russes ? Surtout quand la moindre action est orchestrée par la générale Olga Ranevskaïa, cheffe des opérations noires du Kremlin. Sur les routes de Roumanie et d'Ukraine, Edgar s'apprête à mener la mission la plus dangereuse de son existence.

A serial killer in New York’s South Bronx district is targeting clients of local sex workers. The victims, all male, are either burned alive or beaten to death. With the body count mounting and no real leads, the FBI decides to put someone in undercover. Enter rookie agent Shannon Ames. Suited for deep cover work because she is single and without family ties, Shannon is young enough to pass herself off as a working girl. But spending her nights on the streets as she hunts for the killer takes its toll.

It is an obsession that has haunted Nick Malick for seven years - to avenge the murder of his young son. In his gut Malick knows who did it. But the psychopath is in prison for another crime, scheduled to be released in a year. All Malick has to do is wait...and survive.

Someone has to die.... Henning Juul sits in a boat on a dark lake. A man with a gun sits opposite him. At the man's feet is a body that will be soon be dumped into the water. Henning knows that the same fate awaits him. And he knows that it's his own fault. Who started the fire that killed Henning's young son? How is his sister, Trine, involved? Most importantly, who can be trusted?

With the scars of her last case still fresh on her skin, DI Jamie Johansson is piecing together a puzzle that’s been buried for 20 years. It killed her father, and now she’s determined to finish what he started and expose the corruption threaded through every street of Stockholm. When a series of violent incidents rock Jamie’s fragile existence in Sweden, she’s faced with a choice - drop the case, or have her loan to Stockholm Police terminated.

Quatre scènes de crime. Sept victimes. Une seule arme : la foudre. Après une nuit d'orage, alors que la saison touristique commence à peine, des corps sont découverts sur l'île d'Oléron et ses alentours, attachés à des pieux métalliques plantés dans le sable face à l'océan, foudroyés. Sept dépouilles au total. Et des modes opératoires très proches. Le capitaine Max Fontaine, en poste à la PJ de La Rochelle, va aussitôt être chargé de l'affaire. Sa priorité : trouver le lien qui unit les victimes pour espérer remonter jusqu'à leur assassin.

For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can't refuse.The 200-year-old godfather of the Budayeen's underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.

When the police are unable to find a body, they are forced to dismiss a homeless veteran’s claim that he witnessed a homicide. But after he is found murdered in the same spot two days later, DI Bliss and the Major Crime Unit set their sights on catching a ruthless killer. Elsewhere, when the daughter of a cuckooed family is reported to have attempted suicide, Jimmy Bliss and DC Penny Chandler have their doubts and vow to uncover the truth. But the situation is about to get much worse, and violence is certain to erupt on the city streets.

There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with an investigation into a car sales fraud - nothing bad could happen. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expect the unexpected. With Richard behind bars, Kate must look after his eight-year-old son - who proves even more troublesome than his father. Kate finds herself dragged into a world of drug traffickers, child pornographers, fraudsters, and violent gangland enforcers in the most terrifying investigation of her career.

« Cherche le sang et tu trouveras l'éternité... du mal. » Hiver 1448. Dans une Roumanie déchirée par la guerre, le prince Vlad, dit Dracul, échappe de peu à la mort. Une rencontre va tout changer : l'énigmatique impératrice de Bohème, Barbara de Cilli. Obsédée par l'alchimie, la magie et le sang, elle entraîne Vlad dans la quête initiatique du Graal. Celui du Diable. Été 1944. Des partisans anti-allemands terrorisent la région des Balkans, se comportant comme des vampires.

Avec son art consommé de la psychologie, Rachel Abbott tisse un suspense familial riche en émotions et hautement addictif, dans la lignée de P. D. James et de Lisa Gardner. Une route de campagne verglacée. Une voiture qui perd le contrôle : la conductrice est tuée sur le coup ; Natasha, sa fille de six ans assise à l'arrière, se volatilise sans explication. Quelques années plus tard, David fait de son mieux pour se reconstruire après le drame qui a emporté sa femme et sa fille. Il forme désormais un couple heureux avec la douce Emma et le petit Ollie, adorable bambin de dix-huit mois.

It starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy—one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive. And when it comes to finishing something—or someone—nobody does it better than Hammer.

Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death. Nyman arrives in the town dominated by a bizarre holiday village - the ‘hottest beach in Finland’. The suspect: Olivia Koski, who has only recently returned to her old hometown. The mission: find out what happened, by any means necessary.

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who believes that the voices she hears are from God.

In recent decades, ostensibly to combat the rising tide of criminality in Mumbai’s underworld, the Indian Police Service has carried out many hundreds of extrajudicial assassinations of suspects. Karan, an expert sharpshooter in an elite branch dispensed with dishing out this vigilante justice, has a difficult choice: Should he continue to blindly follow orders from his superiors, regardless of their moral standing, or take matters into his own hands and do what he believes to be right?