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: The Night of the Apocalypse - Daniel Easterman - book Summary : Religious leaders from numerous Muslim countries are meeting near Dublin in a top-secret conference that will determine the future of peace in the Middle East. For months, the secret services and security agencies have been on edge. It is whispered in high places that certain extremist Islamic groups are prepared to do anything to derail the negotiations. But, against all expectations, it is an armed group belonging to a Christian sect which takes twenty-eight of the participants hostage and takes them to an unknown destination... Declan Carberry, the head of the Dublin Federal Police and counterterrorism officer in charge of the case, must act quickly. The kidnappers have crazy demands, impossible to meet, and are executing a new hostage every day... EAN : 9782266143240 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 Family Writer - Grégoire Delacourt - book Summary : At the age of seven, Édouard wrote his first poem, four simple rhymes that would take him to the skies and make him the writer of the family. But the destiny others choose for you is never quite the right one... With grace and delicacy, Grégoire Delacourt tells us a simple, family story that is funny and moving. A delicate text, written with a wry smile. [...] the author speaks of the difficulty of freeing oneself from the dreams that others have formulated for you, of escaping the identity they have assigned you. This will not prevent him from becoming a writer. But by ceasing to let life and others decide for him. Raphaëlle Leyris, The World of Books. EAN : 9782253168546 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Pilgrims of Darkness - Serge Brussolo - book Summary : Locked in an iron cage in the dungeons of an abbey, a demented monk recounts that the pilgrimage he was leading ended in hell. The devil, he claims, took all those who accompanied him. What is really happening in the mountains where the endless road winds to the relics of Saint Gaudaemon, a martyr once tortured by Caligula, the mad emperor? One thing is certain: many people disappear, and the peaks seem inhabited by legendary creatures who have made pilgrims their daily prey. What secret, what heretical plot are they trying to hide under the mask of superstition? Will Marion, the young ex-voto carver, be luckier than those who preceded her on the paths of mystery... or will she, in turn, succumb to the spells of the cursed pilgrimage? EAN : 9782253172796 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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Title: Paranoia - Joseph Finder - book Summary : Adam Cassidy is 26 years old. A junior employee at a high-tech company, he hates his job. The day he very recklessly plays with the computer system to help a friend, he finds himself accused of theft. His bosses give him no choice: prison or becoming their spy at their main competitor, Trion Systems. He's trained, coached. He's given secret information. Arriving at Trion, he's greeted like a star with a spectacular future, and therefore eyed with suspicion by jealous colleagues. Adam discovers talents he'd always thought he was incapable of. His new boss praises him to the skies and calls him "up to the top floor" to work alongside him. This is when the nightmare begins... EAN : 9782253119142 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Misadventure in Paradise - Cuban Melody - Bernard Matussière, Erik Orsenna - book Summary : Accompanied by photographer Bernard Matussière, Erik Orsenna travels to Cuba in search of his ancestors... "Her name was Villademoros, a papermaker. His name was Augustino, a merchant. My great-grandparents. They lived in Havana, where they were born. One hundred and twenty years later, Cuba is breathtaking because the people and places are so beautiful, and heartbreaking because the failure is so glaring. A great Fidel passed through here. He wanted to build paradise on earth... You can build schools, hospitals. You can't force happiness on a people. Especially when they possess it within themselves. You guessed it: along with the family tree, we visited the ruins of the dream. Erik Orsenna Photographs by Bernard Matussière EAN : 9782020799065 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Florentine Gentleman - Magdalen Nabb - book Summary : In Florence, on Christmas Eve, Langley Smythe, a retired diplomat of English origin, is discovered dead in his apartment. At the end of his investigation, Warrant Officer Guarnaccia, despite a raging flu and a troublesome intern, will uncover a dark affair of art trafficking. This Florentine Maigret (he officiates at the Pitti Palace where he commands the carabinieri) is of Sicilian origin. A notorious gourmet, endowed with a reserved temperament, he compensates for his unexpected phlegm with tenacious stubbornness. By staging this character, the hero of a dozen investigations since 1981, his spiritual mother, in the enchanting setting of Florence - its cluttered alleys, its small neighborhood merchants - has attracted praise, all the more flattering for being rare, from Georges Simenon himself! EAN : 9782264031419 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Prey - Irène Némirovsky - book Summary : Nothing is more bitter than seeing superhuman efforts yield so little happiness. There remains only one possible consolation: to tell oneself that there is no happiness. First published in 1938, this novel, with its Stendhalian undertones, tells the story of the social rise and fall of an ambitious young man, Jean-Luc Daguerne, whose love for his beloved will lead him to his downfall. Against this tried-and-true backdrop, Irène Némirovsky makes the words dance with humor and brilliantly plays with human passions and the cruelties of fate. But this Prey owes much to the 1930s, to their tragic energy, to all their shattered hopes. It is this mad dash toward the abyss that makes it so modern. We have been rediscovering the work of Irène Némirovsky with pleasure since the posthumous publication of Suite française in 2004. A very prominent novelist in Paris in the 1930s, Irène Némirovsky, born in Kiev in 1903, died in Auschwitz, was arrested on July 13, 1942 by the French police. EAN : 9782253117544 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Turbulence - Michael Crichton - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782266085151 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: She walked on a wire - Philippe Delerm - book Summary : At fifty, Marie finds herself alone. Like the rising tide, life has erased the traces of her steps. Another path remains to be invented. Meeting a group of young actors opens new horizons for her: she will put on the show she had imagined for her son. But the line between dream and tragedy is thinner than it seems. Philippe Delerm, born in 1950, devotes his writing to the restitution of fleeting moments. We owe him in particular The First Sip of Beer And I'm going to look like an old fool . “The challenge of this ode to art is to suspend time, to retain happiness.” She EAN : 9782757851944 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Religion - Tim Willocks - book Summary : The siege of Malta has begun. "Religion" is the name given to the Order of the Hospitallers, but it is also the banner under which the madness of men sometimes rallies. In 1565, cloistered on their small archipelago south of Sicily, the Knights of Malta prepare to receive the furious assaults of the Ottoman army. Outnumbered five to one, the Christians hold the siege at the cost of terrible fighting. An unleashing of violence that draws Mattias Tannhauser, a former janissary who has known both sides, into his wake. For the beautiful eyes of Countess Carla La Penautier, the arms and opium trafficker embarks for hell... "Hypnotic power of the plot, poetry of evocation, cruel and smiling imagination." Daniel Rondeau – The World EAN : 9782266189576 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Cassock Murders - Phyllis Dorothy James - book Summary : St. Anselm, a theological college founded in the 19th century and located on a remote and windswept promontory on the southeast coast of England, is home to around twenty students destined for the Anglican priesthood. When one of them, Ronald Treeves, is discovered dead at the foot of a cliff, buried beneath a sandbank, his wealthy adoptive father, Sir Alred Treeves, asks New Scotland Yard to review the inquest's verdict of "accidental death." Major Dalgliesh, who himself attended the college as a child, agrees to spend a weekend there for what he believes is just a routine check. In reality, he is about to find himself confronted with one of the most sordid cases of his career. Other visitors are expected at the college that same weekend, and not all of them will emerge alive. PD James has found in this small theological college an ideal setting for a detective novel, an almost closed world where passions ferment. In addition to the four clergymen who run the establishment and teach the main courses, in addition to the twenty or so students and the nurse Margaret Munroe, there is Gregory, the eccentric Greek professor, Emma, ​​the very beautiful poetry professor, Eric, the factotum who raises pigs and who receives his incestuous half-sister in his cottage every two weeks... Everything is in place to weave a complex plot whose intertwinings readers will follow with delicious anxiety. EAN : 9782253182382 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Sepulchre - Kate Mosse - book Summary : October 1891: Young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole leave Paris for the Domaine de la Cade, a few kilometers from Carcassonne. In the woods surrounding the isolated house, Léonie stumbles upon the remains of a Visigothic tomb. During her research, she discovers the existence of a tarot deck that is said to hold the powers of life and death. October 2007: Meredith Martin treks through the foothills of the Pyrenees to write a biography of Claude Debussy. But she also investigates her own origins. Armed with a piano score and an old photograph, she finds herself plunged, despite herself, into the heart of a tragedy dating back more than a century, where the fate of a young girl, who disappeared one fateful night, is inextricably intertwined with a dramatic love story. EAN : 9782253126973 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Predation - Jérôme Camut, Nathalie Hug - book Summary : A naked corpse is discovered in an industrial wasteland, its right hand shredded. A man shoots himself in the head in a crowded shopping mall. A young father, trained like a dog, is relentlessly tormented in a doorless, windowless dungeon. No leads, no connections, no motive... Who are these men? Why were they chosen? For what absurd execution? Predation opens the door to an unpredictable and distressing universe, strangely connected to the most shocking news stories of our time. EAN : 9782253120667 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Blood of Angels - Michael Marshall - book Summary : Ward Hopkins, a former CIA agent, like Nina Baynam, on leave from the FBI, had no illusions: any victory against the Straw Men, a criminal organization with global ramifications, could only be temporary. The facts soon prove them right: mutilated corpses are found in Virginia, and disturbing threats are circulating on the Internet. It's impossible not to connect them to the sinister organization. Especially since Ward's brother, who is its mastermind, has escaped from prison where he was serving a life sentence. Nina's sudden disappearance sweeps away any remaining doubts: the Straw Men have taken up arms again... EAN : 9782290352809 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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