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LE NOUVEAU COLD CASE DE FRANKIE ELKIN, L’ÉPATANTE HÉROÏNE DE LISA GARDNER. Timothy O’Day était un pro de la randonnée en forêt. Pourtant, il y a disparu sans laisser de traces lors de son week-end d’enterrement de vie de garçon, laissant derrière lui deux parents inconsolables, une fiancée désespérée et quatre garçons d’honneur rongés par la culpabilité. Frankie Elkin ne connaît rien à la forêt.

Sur une route déserte de l'Oregon noyée par la pluie, une voiture abandonnée, moteur en marche, un sac de femme sur le siège du conducteur. Rainie, une avocate séparée de son mari, Pierce Quincy, ex-profiler, a disparu. Dérive d'une femme au passé d'alcoolique ou conséquence d'une des redoutables affaires dans lesquelles elle s'investissait parfois dangereusement ? Un homme sait ce qui s'est passé cette nuit-là. Et lorsqu'il contacte les médias, le message est clair, terrifiant : il veut de l'argent, la célébrité. Sinon, personne ne reverra Rainie.

Cela fait longtemps que Sharlah, 13 ans, vit séparée de son frère Telly, depuis le jour fatal où, pour la protéger, il a tué leur père. Sa famille d'accueil, Pierce Quincy un ex-profiler du FBI et sa femme Rainie, ont su lui redonner confiance dans un cadre sécurisant et aimant.

L'agent du FBI Kimberly Quincy, le commandant D.D. Warren et Flora Dane : les trois héroïnes de Lisa Gardner de nouveau réunies dans un thriller à couper le souffle. Macabre découverte dans une petite ville de Géorgie. Les restes d'un corps humain, puis bientôt un charnier, révélés au grand jour... Est-ce le testament de Jacob Ness, le tueur en série qui a défrayé la chronique pendant des années avant d'être abattu ? Ou l'œuvre d'un complice ?

Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until the first cryptic, threatening note arrives: “You Get What You Deserve.” Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone wants her to remember it all - even the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced: the murder of their first daughter.

The rapist left an indelible mark on their lives; now three women must live with the consequences of his violent brutality. But when he's murdered on his way to trial, the police investigation takes a scorching new focus. All three women had a reason to hate him. All three wanted him dead. But which one of them murdered him? Explosively plotted and unnervingly suspenseful, The Survivors Club sizzles from beginning to end.

Un homme est abattu de trois coups de feu à son domicile. Lorsque la police arrive sur place, elle trouve sa femme, Evie, enceinte de cinq mois, l'arme à la main. Celle-ci n'est pas une inconnue pour l'enquêtrice D.D. Warren. Accusée d'avoir tué son propre père d'un coup de fusil alors qu'elle était âgée de seize ans, elle a finalement été innocentée, la justice ayant conclu à un accident. Simple coïncidence ? Evie est-elle coupable ou victime de son passé ?

Dans la pièce, cinq corps. Ceux des membres d'une même famille. Une balle dans la tête, le père respire encore faiblement. De toute évidence, cet homme couvert de dettes a décidé d'assassiner les siens avant de se donner la mort. Appelée sur les lieux, l'enquêtrice D. D. Warren comprend immédiatement que l'affaire est plus compliquée qu'il n'y paraît : sur la table du dîner, six couverts avaient été dressés.

À Boston, la famille Jones donne toutes les apparences d'un foyer ordinaire, jusqu'au jour où surgit le drame : Sandra Jones, jeune femme de 30 ans, mère de famille et professeur, disparaît subitement de chez elle sans laisser de traces. Adoptant tour à tour les points de vue des suspects qui se multiplient au fil de l'histoire, l'auteur fascine et manipule son auditeur jusqu'à la dernière page.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.

Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.

Deux meurtres spectaculaires sont perpétrés à Boston à six semaines d'intervalle. Dans les deux cas, les victimes sont des femmes seules, atrocement mutilées, à côté desquelles l'assassin a déposé une rose. L'inspectrice D. D. Warren, chargée de l'enquête, décèle vite une similitude entre ces mises en scène macabres et une longue série de meurtres ayant défrayé la chronique à Boston quarante ans plus tôt et dont l'auteur, Harry Day, s'est suicidé depuis. Seul recours pour D. D. Warren : se rapprocher des deux filles de Harry Day.

The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear… She is later told she managed to discharge her weapon three times. All she knows is that she is seriously injured, unable to move her left arm, unable to return to work. My sister is Shana Day, a notorious murderer who first killed at fourteen. Incarcerated for thirty years, she has now murdered more people while in prison than she did as a free woman.

In The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and best-selling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters - many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds. Join today's finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do.

FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to a small town where something seems to be deeply wrong.

Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York's skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months.

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will - searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier.

If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from number-one New York Times best-selling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. And George R. R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of Thrones tale chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire.

Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you’d find in the pages of a glossy magazine: A beautiful 14-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes’ home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted.

What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer? Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the cunning killer has escaped - and the most dangerous game of all begins....

Five-year-old Leilani Pierson has been missing for over a decade. Amateur detective Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding missing persons. But this case has unusually high stakes. The request comes from Leilani’s sister Kaylee, a convicted serial killer weeks away from her execution date. The main suspect in the kidnapping? Kaylee’s ex-boyfriend, a tech billionaire who has hidden himself away on a remote base camp near Hawaii.