Title: Suddenly Too Late - Carlos Zanon - book Summary : Barcelona. A working-class neighborhood bar at dawn. Epi, a notorious petty criminal, smashes his friend Tanveer's skull, then runs off to find Tiffany, the woman for whom he committed the irreparable. His brother, Álex, tries to find him and help him. But what help can a schizophrenic former drug addict be? Suddenly Too Late is the story of the day and night leading up to the murder, when everything changed. Against a backdrop of social misery, in a city hit by the crisis, emerges a whole gallery of marginalized ordinary people, tragicomic and terribly touching characters, busy surviving, between optimism and despair. An ironic and realistic crime novel by the new big name in Catalan crime fiction, Carlos Zanón. His novels are dark bombs, with a polished and chiseled style, powerful characters and in which the city of Barcelona is not just a simple setting. Alibi. EAN : 9782253177685 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Female of the Species - Andrea H. Japp - book Summary : Toni and Sarah Magnani, along with their 12-year-old daughter, Sophia, form a close-knit, uneventful family. Toni owns his own garage, is well-off, if not rich, and they live in one of Boston's quietest neighborhoods, surrounded by Italians who are eager to solve their problems without the help of the police. But one evening, Sophia doesn't come home from school. The Magnanis' world explodes. The police say they have to wait, that they're looking... Sarah, for her part, has no intention of waiting. Her little one has been harmed: she's the one who's going to look. And she has no doubt she'll find him. The new thriller from one of our most talented crime queens, discovered with the COGNAC FESTIVAL CRIME NOVEL PRIZE in 1991 for THE BOSTONIAN. EAN : 9782702425138 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Corpse by the Lake - Phillip Margolin - book Summary : Ami, a young lawyer, questions the true identity of her friendly tenant, Daniel, who has revealed himself to be incredibly violent during a fight on a baseball field. When she sees Daniel on her television screen, journalist Vanessa Kohler can't believe her eyes. This man, who was thought to be dead, may be the only one who can testify that General Wingate, candidate for the presidency of the United States, is leading a plot against the state. The proof that Vanessa, who has been trying in vain to alert the public, has been waiting for years... But Ami, hired by the journalist to defend Daniel, has doubts: are this woman, whom many believe to be crazy, and this man, who makes no secret of his past as a killer, right to accuse one of the nation's most respected politicians and military personnel? Complex, brilliant, a terribly realistic, chilling thriller. EAN : 9782253128717 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Domino Theory - Alex Scarrow - book Summary : Monday: A series of attacks on oil reserves. Tuesday: Markets collapse. Transport quarantined. Wednesday: Food and energy supplies restricted. Thursday: Power cuts, stores stormed. Friday: Panic and chaos take over the streets. The apocalyptic scenario is underway. Only one man can stop it. A thriller of frightening realism and extreme tension: the sensational debut of a young writer considered worldwide as the successor to Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy. EAN : 9782253128618 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Sex & Love Addicts - Lucía Etxebarria - book Summary : Madrid, a trendy setting. Pumuky, leader of the Sex & Love Addicts, is discovered with a bullet in his head. Suicide? Murder? His loved ones give their version of events... And paint the portrait of an extraordinary, excessive, and dangerous person. But for whom? Through clumsy confessions, each person shares their share of the truth. And confronts their own unconfessed lies... "Another trip that's hard to come back from. Recommended." Caroline Rochet, Marie-Claire EAN : 9782264053039 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Shadow of the Shadow - Paco Ignacio Taibo II - book Summary : Mexico 1922. A journalist specializing in crime, a lawyer whose best clients are prostitutes, a poet-virtuoso in the art of advertising slogans, and a Chinese anarchist and trade unionist meet in the evening at the bar of the Majestic Hotel to play dominoes. The assassination of a trombone player, the defenestration of an army colonel, nighttime shootings, poisoned chocolates, and a beautiful and mysterious young woman will lead the four friends far from their beloved dominoes, into the middle of a plot that unites treacherous colonels, American senators, and a few oil companies. Conspiracies are a shadow—without a profile, without clear objectives. And we, who pursue them in fits and starts, like children running blindly EAN : 9782869305151 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Diamond Throne - David Eddings - book Summary : Emouchet, the Pandion knight, is back from exile, ready to resume his place as the Queen's Champion. But his mistress is struck by a mysterious illness and Séphrinia, the old witch, has only been able to delay the deadline: sitting on her throne, encased in a block of crystal, the young queen is dying; a cure must be found quickly. This story takes place in a land of warring kingdoms, court intrigue, black magic, and high adventure. The queen's illness is a boon for the ambitious. So, Emouchet sets out to find the cure in the company of Séphrinia and the little Flute with strange powers. After many wild gallops and daring crossings, he cannot fail to finally reach this constantly elusive goal... But the Zemochs, for the first time in five hundred years, are at the gates of Elenia. It is whispered that Azash, their elder god, covets Bhelliom, the lost sacred stone that would make him master of the world. Against such a threat, what can sword blows do? Come now, darkness lurks, the dying queen may be—unbeknownst to all—the last hope for light. And the valiant Emouchet is not at the end of his troubles. EAN : 9782266066051 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Rider of Baikal - Bernard Clavel - book Summary : Emerging from the steppe in a whirlwind of snow and wind, Sadko, escorted by a few horsemen, rides toward the setting sun. Banished for having wanted to supplant the overly old chief of his clan, he flees Lake Baikal and his people, in pursuit of another dream. Over there, say the elders, moons and moons away, lies another lake, with limitless waters. Sadko and his people are approaching unknown lands called Gaul. A chief named Caesar is waging a merciless war against tribes of blond men. How will these warlike peoples welcome the "barbaric" and peaceful horde from Asia? EAN : 9782266113953 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Foreign Lovers - Philip José Farmer - book Summary : Married to a frigid and bigoted woman, Hal Yarrow is suffocating in the form of civilization imposed by the Clergetate. This is why he enthusiastically accepts Sandalphon Macneff's proposal to leave Earth aboard the spaceship Gabriel, bound for the planet Ozagen. It is there that Hal meets Jeanette, a young girl whose origins remain obscure. With fear at first, then with passion, Hal discovers carnal love, he who had never seen the naked body of his own wife. He does not hesitate to defy the hierarchy and the holy abbots who lead the Earth expedition. To protect his love, he goes as far as murder. But is he really sure that this creature, who came out of nowhere, is really human? EAN : 9782277115373 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Life of Elves - Muriel Barbery - book Summary : One snowy evening, two newborns are left on the porch of a Burgundian farm and the steps of a church in Abruzzo. Named Maria and Clara, the orphans grow up in their respective adopted lands, among the peasants and simple folk of the mountains. Soon, it is suspected that they are endowed with singular powers. EAN : 9782072714238 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Shotgun - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary : Exhausted, too tired to move a finger, I mechanically let my gaze focus on your reflection in the window. You had finished scrubbing the barrel and were reassembling the slide, which you had also cleaned. Then you raised and lowered the rifle several times, shouldering each time. But soon after, the rifle stopped moving. You pressed it firmly against your shoulder and took aim, closing one eye. I realized that the barrel was clearly pointed at my back. Yasushi Inoue The Shotgun , or the many facets of an impossible passion. Three letters, addressed to the same man by three different women, form the tragic texture of this singular tale. At the beginning, a banal story of adultery. At the end, one of the most beautiful love stories in contemporary literature. With a formidable economy of means, in a subtly stripped-down language, Yasushi Inoue gives the eternal version of the doomed couple. EAN : 9782253059011 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Fatale - Jean-Patrick Manchette - book Summary : "Whichever way you turn," Manchette writes, "there is a long hill to climb to get out of Bléville." Thus, in Fatale as in his other books, there are sentences that carry strange metaphorical ambiguities. There is also one where we are not sure whether it ironically evokes the bloody clean-up undertaken by Aimée or the moral order necessary for harmony in Bléville. This sentence, a leitmotif inscribed on an automatic scale, a telephone terminal, or a municipal wastebasket, consists of a simple injunction: KEEP YOUR CITY CLEAN!" Jean Échenoz. EAN : 9782070407644 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Electra in Havana - Leonardo Padura - book Summary : Cuban diplomat's son found missing strangled to death in Havana. Alexis Arayán was made up as a woman. The investigation led Mario Conde in the footsteps of Alberto Marqués, a homosexual playwright, exiled in his own country. A cultured and cynical man, Marqués will introduce him to a Havana unknown where the quest for identity forces individuals to follow strange paths. “The mask for the pleasure of the mask, disguise as supreme truth." EAN : 9782757800249 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Way of the Sword - Thomas Day - book Summary : To complete his son Mikédi's education, the warlord Nakamura Ito entrusts him to a ronin named Miyamoto Musashi. A legendary samurai, the greatest sword master known to the Empire of the Four Catfish. Together, for six long years, the master and apprentice will travel the road leading to the capital Edo, where the Dragon Empress awaits Mikédi to make him her husband. But the Way of the Sword is far from cutting across the archipelago in a straight line: from the Nakamura fortress to the floating cities of Kido, from the Palace of Flavors to the Pagoda of Pleasure, Mikédi will learn the delights of pleasure, the suffering of combat, and the perverse sweetness of betrayal. With The Way of the Saber, Thomas Day immerses his readers in a fantasy Japan, a 17th-century Japan that never was, where magic and dragons exist, where the meteoritic metal of sabers is dipped in blood. EAN : 9782070420483 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Flight of Angels - Michael Connelly - book Summary : Called in the middle of the night by his boss, Detective Harry Bosch is asked to go to the Angels Flight cable car, where two bodies have been found, including that of Howard Elias, a civil rights lawyer who specialized in bringing the Los Angeles police to justice. These trials have earned him considerable popularity among Black people. This shows that the investigation Harry is immediately entrusted with is explosive: his colleagues are ideal suspects, and if he makes the slightest mistake, the entire South Central neighborhood could ignite again, just as it did after the Rodney King case. And to make matters worse, his wife, the beautiful Eleanor Wish, a former FBI agent who went bad, is leaving him. But orders are orders. So Harry Bosch obeys, and immediately encounters the first signs of sabotage to his work. EAN : 9782020542968 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Fog - James Herbert - book Summary : It began with an earthquake. In the confusion, amidst the screams of the victims, no one paid much attention to the yellowish fog rising from the ripped-open earth, which the wind soon carried toward the English countryside. Then, inexplicable, insane massacres were reported as the fog drifted past. It began to grow, advancing inexorably toward the most populated areas of England. EAN : 9782266034821 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Triptych - Karin Slaughter - book Summary : 1986. John Shelley wakes up after a wild student night next to his girlfriend—dead, with her tongue cut out. He will live through hell behind bars for a crime he has no memory of. 2006. Detective Michael Ormewood, on patrol in the Atlanta underworld, discovers the body of a young prostitute brutally murdered, her tongue bitten off. Upon his release from prison, Shelley is pursued by a mysterious blackmailer and finds solace with a young detective who has infiltrated the prostitute world. For her sixth novel, Karin Slaughter, at the height of her powers, has created a world that combines the darkness of Seven with the deliciously chilling discoveries of The Silence of the Lambs. A masterpiece of the genre. EAN : 9782253126959 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Akhenaton The Heretic - Alain Darne - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253150091 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Cantos of Hyperion - Volume 1 - Hyperion I - Dan Simmons - book Summary : When the seven pilgrims land on Hyperion, the spaceport offers an end-of-the-world spectacle. Millions of people crowd behind the gates: the planet's inhabitants are sure that the Shrike will come for them and they want to flee. But the Hegemony wants nothing to do with it: a war is coming and the skyways must be cleared. And all the government has found is to send the seven pilgrims. The president told them straight away: "It is essential that the secrets of the Time Tombs be uncovered. This is our last chance." But the pilgrims don't understand anything: it's quite simple, they don't even know each other! Fortunately, the journey will allow them to get closer. Each tells their story, and it quickly becomes clear that no one was chosen at random. The person who made the selection, as the confidences unfold, seems to have demonstrated... diabolical lucidity. And of refined cruelty! EAN : 9782266064767 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Tempest - William Shakespeare - bilingual book English Summary : Rumbles of thunder, lightning, raging seas: The Tempest opens with chaos. A ship pitches and capsizes. On board: Alonso, King of Naples, his son, and Antonio, King of Milan. On the island where they are stranded, Prospero reigns, a great connoisseur of occult sciences, who has mastered the taming of fantastical beings, such as Caliban, the monstrous son of the witch Sycorax, or Ariel, the spirit of air and water, who makes storms arise. A dramatic twist: Antonio, one of the shipwrecked, is none other than Prospero's brother, whom he exiled from Milan to seize the throne from him. For Prospero, the hour of revenge has come... With The Tempest (1611), his last play, Shakespeare signs his most serious tragicomedy: against the backdrop of rivalry between two brothers fighting for power, the eternal struggle between good and evil, between truth and illusion, plays out. EAN : 9782081331808 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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