Title: Moving Target - Ross MacDonald - book Summary : Adapted for the big screen in 1966 with an incredibly relaxed and humorous Paul Newman, Moving Target is one of the most famous novels in the Lew Archer cycle. A businessman disappears, a ransom demanded, here is our hero who sets out on the hunt, once again, in the sordid world of this Eden, both golden and Machiavellian, of "fifties" California. Once again, Ross Macdonald asserts himself as the spiritual son of Hammett and Chandler and Lew Archer the ruthless nephew of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. EAN: 9782264027351 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Recluses - Laura Wilson - book Summary : Summer 1890. In the garden of a splendid country house, children from a well-to-do family play hide-and-seek, joyful and carefree. Until the discovery of the body of the youngest of them, mortally wounded in the head... London, 1955. In a middle-class South Kensington home, three elderly people are murdered. Thirty years earlier, one of the victims, a famous and eccentric beauty, had been suspected of her husband's murder. Beside her lie the corpses of her brother and their elderly housekeeper. Two events that seem unrelated. And yet. Teenage passions, family secrets, star-crossed loves... this captivating romantic suspense takes us to the heart of a terrifying labyrinth, to the edge of madness. Its mystery and oppressive atmosphere evoke Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. With The Recluses , Laura Wilson establishes herself more than ever as one of the great ladies of English crime fiction. EAN: 9782253116400 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Cosa facil - Paco Ignacio Taïbo ii - book Summary : Some say Emiliano Zapata isn't dead and that his double was murdered. Others are engineers in a factory on the verge of a strike and get killed. Still others are persecuting a teenage girl, the daughter of a pornographic actress. Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, a private detective, will try to find Zapata, discover the engineers' murderers, and come to the girl's rescue. As if one of these stories wasn't enough, he tackles all three at once! Totally irrational. But isn't being a private investigator in Mexico City crazy? EAN: 9782869307223 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Year of Awakening - Charles Juliet - book Summary : "It all began that October morning. They, the one hundred and twenty students of the company, were in the refectory, busy having breakfast. I was alone in the corridor, leaning my shoulder against a wall, and I was crying." To escape a future that looked miserable, a young shepherd without a family entered the military school in Aix-en-Provence. But life in the barracks was reduced to a succession of bullying, and the officers exercised their sadism on the adolescents with impunity. Young Charles nevertheless found comfort in the friendship shown to him by his section leader. But the discovery of love, with the latter's wife, would turn his life upside down. EAN: 9782290128664 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Total Khéops - Jean-Claude Izzo - book Summary : Marseille is not a city for tourists. Here, you have to take sides. Be passionate. Be for, be against. Be, violently. Only then does what is there to see reveal itself. And then, too late, we are in the midst of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy where the hero is death. In Marseille, even to lose, you have to know how to fight. Fabio Montale knew all that! A nonchalant cop and gourmet, lost in the northern districts, he dives right into pastis. A real one. Corpses in hand. EAN: 9782070495023 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Mercy Killing - John Lescroart - book Summary : Sal Russo, suffering from an incurable illness, is found dead, an empty vial of morphine at his side; the suicide hypothesis seems convincing. But disturbing details lead Abe Glitsky and the Homicide squad to take a closer look at Sal's son, Graham Russo. Indeed, Sal Russo had just reconnected with his son, and, more importantly, a large sum of money has just been found in Graham's home. Dismas Hardy, charged with his defense, has no easy task. Did the good son help his elderly father die? Was it a charitable act worthy of respect, or a sordid crime that must be punished? Unless the truth lies elsewhere... EAN: 9782266098885 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Face Grazed by Pain - Gisèle Prassinos - book Summary : "Essentiel remained in ecstasy for a moment. Then, unable to repress her joy, she threw herself upon the sleeping man and covered him with kisses. See you soon, she whispered to him, see you soon my dear husband! And she went to erase the traces of her miraculous tears, determined to adorn herself worthily, in order to celebrate the happiest of days." EAN: 9782843042768 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: To the devil! Men who cry - Michel Leydier - book Summary : Men cry too. In the daily grind, Grégoire, the unfortunate narrator, didn't draw the right number. Whether he's a manager or something similar, we don't know, he flees south and ends up in Vauvert, in the Gard department. What is he trying to escape, if not his existence as a loser? Married for a time to Monique, he failed to maintain their love. The mother of his eighteen-year-old son, Sylvain, she cheated on him with lovers, most of them casual. One of them, Pierre-Léon, even humiliated him more than necessary. Enough to make him want to kill. To the point of obsession. A novel constructed like a meticulous clockwork, with a time-delay effect, mirror effects, and existential mise-en-abymes. Of course, corpses punctuate this story, but not everyone can be a murderer... EAN: 9782268055534 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: At the Execution Ground - Val McDermid - book Summary : Scardale, a hamlet lost in Derbyshire, one of the wildest and most remote regions of England. Ten houses all belonging to the owner of the place. But, on this December day in 1963, an event shakes the small community: Alison Carter, the lord's daughter-in-law, has disappeared. Runaway, kidnapping, murder? The young inspector George Bennett encounters a wall of silence, Scardale remains silent. When clues emerge, skillfully orchestrated, it is him, the only outsider in the village, who is the one they accuse. EAN: 9782290072967 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Eat Me - Linda Jaivin - book Summary : "I wonder what Sam would think of all this. He'll never know, of course, but I'd like to know if it would excite him or revolt him. On the one hand, I'd like it to excite him, and on the other hand (probably the good little Catholic's) I'd like it to terrify him." Philippa, who dreams of writing an erotic novel, draws outrageously on the secrets of her three best friends to carry out her project. And she doesn't hesitate to put herself in the spotlight either. The intersecting lives of these four women in their thirties, rather intellectual, with good situations, are at once pitiful, funny and tender... They get a bit tangled up in their contradictions, sometimes make a few blunders... They could be the female counterparts of Woody Allen's characters. Only sexier. EAN: 9782290306246 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Sister-Man - Patrick Lapeyre - book Summary : Inter Book Prize 2004 "At this very moment, Cooper—who, by the way, would have preferred not to be named—is waiting for his sister. He's been waiting for her for years. Without telling anyone. So it's best not to count on him to explain the reasons for such strange behavior. It's his secret. Except that at this moment, he doesn't yet know what his secret will cost him." EAN: 9782070305223 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Oedipus the King - Lamaison Sophocles - book Summary : He had silently crossed a city that oozed death. Pyrolos, the citadel's gatekeeper, had led him to the palace vestibule where the maids had welcomed him, according to ritual. Often questioned about the circumstances of this arrival, Pyrolos had been able to report only three things about the strange traveler: the infrequency of his words, the absence of any luggage, the unusual swelling of his sandals. Where did he come from? - From the sanctuary of Delphi. Where was he going? - Towards my destiny. What was his name? - Look at my feet. They call me Oedipus. Many years later, no one would know more. EAN: 9782070300440 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Short Memory - Louis-Ferdinand Despreez - book Summary : In the midst of an election campaign, a series of murders destabilizes South Africa. Every Saturday morning, a man is found in a trash can, on a train seat, in a park, or in front of the presidential palace. The bodies are violently mutilated and the skin has been torn off their faces. How can the victims be identified? Inspector Zondi will try to stop the vicious cycle of these crimes... Louis-Ferdinand Despreez is an English-speaking South African citizen who writes in French, the language of his Huguenot ancestors. He has traveled extensively. Short Memory is his first novel. “A masterstroke.” Le Figaro EAN: 9782757804667 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Dead of the Karst - Veit Heinichen - book Summary : Things are going badly for Commissioner Laurenti: his wife is leaving him, and his son is spending his time in a bar frequented by ultra-nationalists. His only escape is work, of which there is no shortage... A house is blown up, killing a couple and their child. A sordid settling of scores or a fascist crime? Under the snow and icy wind, the investigation promises to be tricky... Veit Heinichen, born in 1957, was a bookseller, journalist, and publisher in Germany. He now lives in Trieste. The Dead of the Karst is the second investigation of Commissioner Laurenti after The Sharks of Trieste , already available in Points. “A thriller that renews the genre and opens up to other cultures.” Read EAN: 9782757807026 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Green Lantern - Jerome Charyn - book Summary : "They were given a mousetrap in Strangler Alley, the old Paradiz, where Chaliapin had sung before going into exile. The place was crawling with rats and all its exits were sealed off before the Traveling Comedians from Tiflis arrived for six weeks of performances. Their stage manager, Boris Nikolayevich Tushkov, had connived with the Georgian Party leaders. His only triumph had been King Lear. And now he was bringing Lear to Moscow." It's a rather risky production... To perform a play about a doddering old king, a widower and father of Cordelia, when Stalin is approaching sixty, his wife is dead, he has a young daughter and is as secretive as Lear, is that not very dangerous? All the more so since, hidden in his Kremlin office where a green lantern is permanently lit, Stalin controls everything, monitors the slightest actions of his "subjects", and in particular the artists, all peddlers of ideas quickly deemed subversive... EAN: 9782070308729 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Key to Sixteen - Patrick Raynal - book Summary : "Louis Seize... Already, that's a name for a cop! You lose your mind easily... Or, at least, when you lose your illusions, you systematically do the opposite of what we want you to do. For example, an armed robbery. Then you get five years. Firm. And in prison, you learn to be smart, failing to return to the straight and narrow, which, outside, is rather tortuous, crosses Nice, a city where everything is recovered, everything is digested, everything changes, where yesterday's honest people become tomorrow's rotten ones, where those who give lessons never remember the lessons they have given. So you, Louis Seize, head first, you get yourself a scaffold." EAN: 9782070409587 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Microcosms - Claudio Magris - book Summary : This time, Claudio Magris takes us from the Café San Marco to the Church of the Sacred Heart in Trieste, passing through a few borderlands, marginal places, secrets of a Europe with a vivid memory and a burning past. The witnesses of time are those forgotten by History, whose poor, contradictory and fascinating lives make and judge History. Nine place names constitute the titles of the chapters of this book, which is neither a travel journal, nor a fragment of autobiography, nor a historical essay, nor a roman à clef, but perhaps the story of an initiatory journey, shrouded in the presence of a vanished Beloved, through places, cultures, and myths dear to the author and rich in humanity. Microcosms eludes all classification: erudition presents itself as description, analysis sometimes assumes the role of narrative, real characters acquire the epic stature of heroes, and myths map out the uncertainties of reality. Magris, a man of the confines, here erases the boundaries of genres, languages, and time, in this quest for self that is every journey, a "lost guerrilla war against oblivion." EAN: 9782070412440 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Les Bulles - Claire Castillon - book Summary : When I was little, I thought I was abnormal; I'm delighted that you're seeing my brother; My husband hasn't touched me for ages, I don't see why he would cheat on me; I always knew I was my nephew's mother; Love is not a spectacle; If I die, think of Hugues Aufray. Never far from a fantasy, everyone here lives in their own bubble, through which the images of the world arrive distorted, cracked, desperate. Unless, acting as a magnifying glass, it allows us to better scrutinize certain disturbing details of truth. Thirty-eight short stories, thirty-eight scathing portraits. Cruel, incisive, and fair, this sparkling collection also offers a certain amount of nastiness. Frankly, it's exhilarating! Valérie Gans, Madame Figaro. EAN: 9782253159797 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Japanese - Raphaël Majan - book Summary : The commissioner is not an idiot who kills to build a track record. Nevertheless, among the many nationalities who have been victims of his investigations and assassinations, there are no Japanese. Little by little, this lack obsesses him. And all the more so since it is not as easy as he might have thought to remedy it. For the Japanese have their own ways of escaping his crimes, and assassins do not escape the law that weighs on every human being and transforms any desire for magnitude into unsatisfyable torture. EAN: 9782846820332 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Melchior's Promise - Alain Demouzon - book Summary : The gloom and dreariness of the Fontenay-Central police station are behind us. Forgotten are the heinous murders and other suburban news stories. Recently relieved of his duties, the singular Commissioner Melchior has gone to nurse his wounds at his cousin's house by the sea. A little paradise on earth where he will, despite himself, have to return to duty. The motive? The murder, seven years earlier, of Mariette Pontel, a young woman found strangled in an abandoned blockhouse. A mystery that Melchior, like a good Samaritan, promises to solve. At the risk of putting himself in personal danger. For the murderer is far from having expressed his last wishes. EAN: 9782266138970 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: All Families Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland - book Summary : Forget everything you think you know about family romance: Douglas Coupland, cult author of Generation X , is stripping the genre clean. The Drummonds, a friendly tribe of weirdos, arrive in Florida and devastate its picture-postcard setting. Part wacky soap opera, part visionary comic, this is a hilarious reflection on family ties in a society sick of progress. "Adultery, heart attack, Disney World, robbery, cloning, lunch at NASA and black market: at the Drummonds', family reunions go haywire. It's wacky, cheerful, clear. And above all, representative of a sitcom-ized America." She EAN: 9782264037725 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Julie - Daniel Crozes - book Summary : At the beginning of the century, Julie Tournié, daughter of small farmers from Aveyron, married at the age of seventeen a wealthy landowner ten years her senior. This marriage was arranged by her father, but she hoped in this way to escape her condition. On the day of the ceremony, a letter from the family doctor informed her that her husband had syphilis. Terrified and revolted, she decided to flee the estate and go alone to Paris. Thus began a daily struggle. EAN: 9782812606625 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Shopaholic Says Yes - Sophie Kinsella - book Summary : Her motto? I spend, therefore I am. Her vision of marital duty? Choosing the timeless ring. It's insane, and yet Becky Bloomwood is getting married! And needless to say, the preparations are shaping up to be... catastrophic: very quickly, the delicate question of where to celebrate the union arises. In Dad's ridiculously British little garden, with its colorful tent and wedding dress that makes you look like "a sausage in a puff pastry turnover"? Or at the legendary Plaza Hotel, under the aegis of her mother-in-law, a real Cruella in a total fashion look? Torn between a taste for luxury and respect for tradition, Becky the flamboyant woman will have to choose this time. For better or for laughs... EAN: 9782266144711 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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