Detective Dave Robicheaux reluctantly agrees to help an old friend who is addicted to cocaine. The friend, Dixie, carries with him a brutal trail of violence and murder and even Dave's young ward Alafair is threatened.
Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away. But what if he didn't do it? The thrilling new novel from the award-winning author of SHARP OBJECTS.
This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia. A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. Fandorin is put on the case to find out what drove him to it.
'The 85-year-old writer reminds us just why his critical standing is so high ... Leonard has found his mojo again, and has us in the palm of his hand' INDEPENDENT.
Jack Foley, le braqueur plein de charme de Loin des yeux, est retourné en taule pour y purger une peine de trente ans. Il s'y est fait un nouvel ami en la personne du riche Cubain Cundo Rey, qui partage sa cellule. Une amitié inestimable puisque Rey parvient à faire réduire la peine de Foley à... trois mois. Jack n'a plus qu'à attendre tranquillement le jour de sa libération, qui tombe juste deux semaines avant celle de Rey.
Une fois dehors, Jack convient d'attendre Rey à Venice Beach, en Californie. Mais il n'est pas seul : la femme de Rey, Dawn Navarro, médium professionnel, est bien décidée à ne pas laisser le pognon de Rey lui échapper. Lorsque Jack débarque, elle voit en lui le partenaire idéal pour délester son riche Cubain de sa fortune. Certes, Cundo est l'ami de Jack, mais cela signifie-t-il pour autant qu'il peut lui faire confiance ? Et d'ailleurs, comment l'un ou l'autre arrivent-ils à faire confiance à Dawn ?
The night Vincent was shot he saw it coming...' After being shot by a mugger, Lt. Vincent Mora is convalescing in Puerto Rico. There he meets Iris, a beautiful young woman who is bored and frustrated, looking for excitement and a new life. Then she is of
1940s' Oklahoma. Germans in a stateside POW camp have murdered one of their own and US Marshal Carl Webster, back from a tour of duty in the Pacific, is called in to investigate. Among others, he comes across a Jewish gangster bent on revenge for the Holo
Une jeune danseuse est tuée par balle en pleine nuit sur le pas de sa porte. Le petit copain a pris la fuite.
L'affaire semble simple.
Et pourtant.
Le Lieutenant Mbaye va se trouver confronté à une affaire qui va bouleverser son existence. Un terrible secret qui met sa vie en danger. La sienne et celle de ses proches.
Jusqu'au coeur de son Sénégal natal.
Une affaire qui prend peut-être ses racines en Chine, dans la province du Sichuan où un tremblement de terre a massacré des milliers d'enfants dans les écoles.
Une affaire impliquant peut-être les plus hautes personnalités de l'état. À moins que tout ne se soit noué pendant l'arbre de Noël de l'Élysée.
Aux prises avec des services secrets dont il ne soupçonne pas l'existence, le Lieutenant Mbaye va devoir entrer dans la clandestinité, comme tant d'Africains sans papiers.
Et se battre pour connaître la vérité... et sauver la vie de ceux qu'il aime.
How far will a father go to save his son? A page-turning story of rebellion, greed, and the high price of a second chance from 'one of the finest crime writers in America' [THE TIMES].
Its a peaceful Sunday evening in suburban Glasgow. TVs are on and dinner is in the oven. But this peace is rudely shattered when a battered van pulls up to the door of one of the somnolent homes and disgorges a group of armed men in balaclavas. They smash into the house and hold the family within at gunpoint and demand millions of pounds. Baffled, the assembled people protest that they dont have access to that sort of money. The attackers kidnap the elderly grandfather and storm off into the nightNow senior policewoman, Maggie Minto, has been summoned to investigate the case. But there are so many mysteries. Who were the men? And why did they think normal household concealed untold riches. The family is certainly not talking. But as she starts to delve deeper, she realises that there are dark secrets all around
International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is about to be disappointed. Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow after an absence of six years, only to find himself instantly embroiled in court politics and scandal. His old friend General Sobolev - the famous 'Russian Achilles' - has been found dead in a hotel room, and Fandorin suspects foul play. Using his now-famous powers of detection - powers that belie his twenty-six years - Fandorin embarks on an investigation, during which the political and the personal may become dangerously blurred. With the assistance of some formidable martial arts skills, acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan, our eccentric and ingenious hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit, as why
