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Lorsque le TGV Milan-Rome arrive à quai, la police fait une macabre découverte : tous les passagers de la classe affaires sont retrouvés morts. Si les premiers indices orientent l'enquête vers un attentat, la commissaire adjointe Colomba Caselli, muscles d'acier et âme fragile, est persuadée du contraire. Pour elle, seul Dante Torre, l' "Homme du silo", est capable d'y voir clair dans ce brouillard de mensonges et de fausses pistes.

Ce livre n’est pas l’histoire d’un fait divers, mais celle de l’emprise criminelle d’un homme sur une jeune épouse qui a subi pendant onze ans le harcèlement moral, les humiliations, et la violence d’un mari qu’elle avait épousé par amour, à dix-huit ans. Sans doute Alexandra est-elle restée au début par amour. Il y a eu les promesses, également. Puis les coups, les insultes, les humiliations, les viols, les strangulations, la peur. C'est cette peur qui l'empêche de partir.

À Munich, en 1931, Angela Raubal, 23 ans, est retrouvée morte dans la chambre d'un appartement de Prinzregentenplatz. À côté de son corps inerte, un pistolet Walther. Tout indique un suicide et pousse à classer l'affaire. Sauf qu'Angela n'est pas n'importe qui. Son oncle et tuteur légal est le leader du Parti national-socialiste des travailleurs, Adolf Hitler, alors en pleine ascension. Les liens troubles qui les unissent font d'ailleurs l'objet de rumeurs. Détail troublant : l'arme qui a tué Angela appartient à Hitler.

Rocher battu par les tempêtes, lieu de cultes primitifs sanctifié par les premiers chrétiens, le Mont-Saint-Michel est loin d'avoir révélé tous ses secrets. Au début du XIe siècle, les bâtisseurs de cathédrales y érigèrent en l'honneur de l'Archange, prince des armées célestes et conducteur des âmes dans l'au-delà, une grande abbaye romane. Mille ans plus tard, une jeune archéologue passionnée par le Moyen Âge se retrouve prisonnière d'une énigme où le passé et le présent se rejoignent étrangement.

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost. It's the real thing.

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

Charles Raynaud has found the perfect cover for his smuggling operation running out of Mexico, because how many customs agents are going to want to inspect a carton of venomous snakes? When Raynaud runs into his old Yale buddy Richard Pierce, a chance to play bodyguard feels like even easier money.

Le tueur parfait n'a pas de nom, il a plusieurs visages. Kylar Stern a renoncé à sa vie d'assassin. Son maître Durzo et son meilleur ami Logan Gyre, l'héritier du trône, ont trouvé la mort au cours de l'invasion brutale du pays par les armées du Roi-dieu. Kylar part s'installer dans une autre ville, fait de nouvelles rencontres et change de métier. Mais lorsqu'il apprend que Logan est toujours vivant, prisonnier dans une prison infâme où il doit cacher son identité, Kylar est confronté à un terrible dilemme.

Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in search of victims. They’re rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For 70 years they’ve lurked on the fringes of society, roaming from town to town, dingy motel to dingy motel, stalking the transients, addicts, and prostitutes they feed on. This hard-boiled supernatural hell ride kicks off when the brothers encounter a young woman who disrupts their grim routine.

Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction - and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together - but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States?

Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it.

September 1858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck, her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.

The company chairman lay on the cold ground of the woods, his eyes unseeing, his orange hunting jacket punctured by a rifle bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with his or her own complicated agenda, each with a reason not to be sorrowful about the man's death.

First published in the New Yorker in 1969 and later adapted into an acclaimed film starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn, Casualties of War is the shocking true story of the abduction, rape, and murder of a young Vietnamese woman by US soldiers.

When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is...and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her.

Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town, the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace.

American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact. From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.

It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly.

Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the BIG story of Dawson's career one in which he has a vested interest.

Ein Cold Case. Ein ermordeter Verdächtiger. Eine missverstandene Zeugin. Ein Fall für Kommissarin Sheridan Holler. Ein unerwarteter Fund auf dem Friedhof: In einem Grab wird ein Toter entdeckt, der dort nicht hingehört. Die Ermittlungen führen Kommissarin Sheridan Holler von der Mordkommission Liverpool zu einem Cold Case. Vor sieben Jahren wurden zwei Frauen niedergeschossen, eine starb, eine überlebte knapp. Der einzige Verdächtige war ein Kleinkrimineller – der Tote im Grab.