Title: In the Burning City - Michael Connelly - book Summary : 1992. Los Angeles is in the grip of riots and looting is rampant when Harry Bosch discovers, at the corner of a dark street, the body of Anneke Jespersen, a Danish journalist. At the time, it was impossible for the inspector to dwell on this victim, who, ultimately, was just one among many for the police deployed in the burning city. Twenty years later, at the Cold Case Bureau, Bosch, who has never forgotten the young woman, finally has the opportunity to bring her justice and reopen the murder case. Thanks to a shell casing recovered from the crime scene and a black box full of archives, he traces a Beretta that puts him on the trail of individuals ready to do anything to cover up their crime. Anneke was perhaps one of those journalists who cause trouble when they dig a little too closely into what others have every interest in leaving buried... The book was included in Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2012 . EAN : 9782702141564 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Quicksand - Fragments of My Life - Henning Mankell - book Summary : “In January 2014, I learned that I had a serious cancer. However, this is not a twilight book, but a reflection on what it is to live. I have wandered through my own history, from the child I was to the man I am today. I speak of events that have marked me forever and of men and women who have opened up unsuspected perspectives for me. I speak of love and jealousy, of courage and fear, of cohabitation with a potentially fatal illness. I speak of the artists who lived 40,000 years ago, of the fascinating images they left us in the deep, dark recesses of the caves. I speak of the evil troll we engendered and which we are now trying to lock away in the mountain so that it does not escape for the next hundred thousand years.” I speak of the way humanity has lived and lives, and of the way I myself have lived. I speak of the joy of living. It returned to me after I escaped the quicksand, which threatened to drag me into the abyss. HM Mankell invites us to share the astonishing journey of his life, from the solitude of the immense forests of northern Sweden to a cosmopolitan life on several continents, but also and above all the invisible, inner journey that has occupied him since childhood. A story brimming with vital energy. Henning Mankell , born in 1948, winner of numerous literary prizes, divides his time between Sweden, Mozambique and France. In addition to the famous detective series "Wallander", he is the author of novels on Africa and social issues, plays and works for young people. Translated from Swedish by Anna Gibson Of Swedish origin, born in Lisbon, raised in Portugal then in Belgium, Anna Gibson arrived in France in 1981 at the age of eighteen. She has been a full-time literary translator since 1989 (Henning Mankell, Colm Tóibín, Monika Fagerholm, Klas Östergren among others). She is also the author of a novel, This summer , published by Balland in 1997. EAN : 9782021233407 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Prisoners of Time - Michael Crichton - book Summary : Time travel was once the stuff of science fiction... Will it become a reality, thanks to the latest advances in science? Located in the middle of the Arizona desert, ITC is a highly mysterious, cutting-edge technology company. Under the leadership of a brilliant but megalomaniacal scientist, important research is conducted in the greatest secrecy... But why is ITC interested in the work of the team of historians who, far away, in the Dordogne Valley, have undertaken excavations around a 14th-century monastery under the direction of Professor Johnston of Yale University? To clarify the question, Johnston goes to Arizona. And disappears... Two days later, in the Dordogne, a 650-year-old parchment is unearthed. Its message, "Help," is signed by Professor Johnston... After Jurassic Park, the new thriller from Michael Crichton. Timeline has been on the New York Times bestseller list since its release and will soon be adapted for the big screen. EAN : 9782221092057 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The House with Stairs - Rendell Ruth - book Summary : Suffering from an incurable illness, Elizabeth has taken refuge with her cousin Cosette, a wealthy widow surrounded by a swarm of sympathetic profiteers. It is there that she meets Bell, a disturbing young woman whose husband committed suicide long ago under unclear circumstances. Then Bell introduces into the house a certain Mark, supposedly her brother, to whom Cosette will feel an immediate attraction... And we will enter, in the footsteps of an undisputed "queen of crime", into a dark intrigue, combining in a captivating and powerfully original way the legacy of Patricia Highsmith and that of Henry James. A suspense of a beautiful scope, which mixes with a confounding virtuosity Victorian imagination and acquired psychoanalysis, anguish and psychological violence. Never the author of Vera is going to die and of The Summer of Trapellune had not gone so far among the cold monsters. EAN : 9782876285682 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Firm - John Grisham - book Summary : Briefcase in hand, a young man runs breathlessly through the streets of Memphis. His name is Mitch McDeere: third in his Harvard law class, he surprised everyone by choosing the firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke. This highly confidential Memphis firm was able to secure his collaboration with irresistible arguments. So what fantastic contract is our brilliant lawyer rushing towards, to the point of forgetting the seriousness necessary to the profession? Mitch has a very good reason for running like this: to save his life. EAN: 9782298036374 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: ADA Or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov - book Summary : Lucette's tragic destiny is one of the highlights of this delightful book. The rest of Van's story is about—delivered frankly and colorfully—his long love affair with Ada. Their romance is interrupted by his marriage in Arizona to a cattle rancher whose fabulous ancestor discovered North America. The husband dies, the lovers are reunited. They spend their old age traveling together and staying in the many villas, each more beautiful than the last, that Van has erected all over the Western Hemisphere. The delicacy of picturesque detail is not the least of the ornaments of this chronicle: a trellised gallery; a painted ceiling; a pretty toy stranded among the forget-me-nots of a stream; butterflies and papilionaceous orchids on the margins of the novel; a distant veil seen from a marble staircase; a heraldic doe turning her head towards us in the ancestral park; and many other things. " Ada is probably the work I would like to be remembered for." Vladimir Nabokov "With five hundred pages, a pen and a narrative genius that has never faltered and today reaches the grandiose in this whimsical novel, Nabokov organizes a formidable poetic hubbub, relaying Rimbaud and his "started peninsulas" " Pierre Ajame, The New Observer "One of the most complete and risky artistic adventures since Proust and Joyce, one of the major challenges of writing in the crumbling world of memories and syllables that it draws from the night." Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, Le Monde " Ada, this sumptuous celebration of language dedicated to Time." Sophie Lannes, L'Express " Ada or Ardor, a sumptuous book where the subtle scents of the Russian cherry orchard blend with the fragrances of the vast American prairies." Edgar Reichmann, Le Monde "Nabokov is one of those rare writers who have always been mad about language, one of those whose only homeland is words." Frédéric Vitoux "One of the great writers of the century, alongside Proust, Joyce, and Borges." Michel Braudeau, L'Express "Nabokov did not choose to take literature seriously; he goes much further; he catches it red-handed in the act of magic, spells, and invention." André Brincourt, Le Figaro "This is yet another masterpiece. Further proof that Vladimir Nabokov is one of the two or three most important writers of this century and of other centuries." Jean-Marc Roberts, The Morning of Paris Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St. Petersburg into an aristocratic and liberal family. Exiled in 1919, he lived first in Cambridge, where he completed his studies, then in Germany and France, which he left in 1940 to settle in the United States. He taught there for nearly twenty years, at Wellesley College (1941-1948) and Cornell University (1948-1958). After the immense success of Lolita, he retired to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. EAN: 9782298036374 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : The Weight of Lies - Patricia Macdonald - Book Summary : Catlin has everything she needs to be happy: a charming lawyer husband and an adorable six-year-old stepson. But when little Geordie disappears from school, her dream of a perfect family is shattered. Despite the couple's anguished pleas, no one claims responsibility for the kidnapping, and the lies on which the young woman built her marriage come to the surface. Suspected by her husband and the police, Catlin struggles desperately to prove her innocence as the trap inexorably closes in on her... A "model" family, secrets, suspicion... a suspense haunted by the past where Patricia MacDonald once again demonstrates her talent for confusing the issue and keeping the reader in suspense. "With Patricia MacDonald, there's no arsenic, and even less old lace. Her world is more one of psychological drama and dark family secrets." Le Nouvel Observateur EAN: 9782226239945 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Call Girl of Montreal - Brigade Mondaine No. 91 - Michel Brice - Gérard De Villiers - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782258027602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Elite Shooter - Brigade Mondaine No. 80 - Michel Brice - Gérard De Villiers - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782259016070 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Witch of Pompeii - Brigade Mondaine No. 95 - Michel Brice - Gérard De Villiers - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782258028432 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ripper with the Golden Eyes - Brigade Mondaine No. 88 - Michel Brice - Gérard De Villiers - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782258023888 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A pink channel for CB enthusiasts - Brigade Mondaine No. 34 - Michel Brice - Gérard De Villiers - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782259008259 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Passenger - Jean-Christophe Grangé - Book Summary : I am the shadow. I am the prey. I am the killer. I am the target. To escape, there is only one option: to flee the other. But what if the other is myself? Grangé has a knack for constructing his long-running plot with watchmaker-like precision, making credible what his overflowing imagination invents in a totally unbridled manner. Bravo, artist! Blaise de Chabalier, Le Figaro littéraire. Diabolically constructed according to the principle of Russian dolls, The Passenger is devoured with a mixture of terror and jubilation. Grangé explores the tenuous line that separates reason from madness. The blurred line between good and evil. He draws us into abysses that are all the more distressing because he has drawn them from the ordinary—barely exaggerated—of contemporary society and its excesses. Hubert Lizé, Today in France. EAN: 9782253175735 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Gun in the Eye - Ken Follett - Book Summary : 1944. The Germans are expecting a landing. But where? The Allies have built a formidable base on the coast north of London, crammed between endless rows of barracks with tanks, planes, and cannons—all made of painted canvas stretched over wood or cardboard. The idea is to make Hitler believe that the landing will take place in the Pas-de-Calais region and not in Normandy. The deception seems to be working. But let an enemy agent discover the truth, and then... His code name is Die Nadel (The Needle), because his favorite weapon is the stiletto. And he risks discovering the secret that could cause the landing to fail... The Gun in the Eye is a truly extraordinary spy novel. EAN: 9782253027782 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moebius Ring - Franck Thilliez - Book Summary : If the future is already written, can murders be prevented from happening? For his first investigation, Victor Marchal approaches the job of cop from its darkest side: a tortured porn actress, a dive into the world of sexual deviants and monsters of nature. Stéphane Kismet has always been haunted by premonitory images, but this time they obey a terrifying logic. In his dreams, Stéphane has a weapon, he is wanted by the police, a little girl is dead... Victor and Stéphane's paths will converge. One has seen nothing yet, the other doesn't know that he already knows everything... "Franck Thilliez is unparalleled in crafting a detective story while plunging his characters into sordid stories that tease their darker side. Effective, well-researched, and complex, this new novel delivers its share of thrills." SHE EAN: 9782266205047 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith - Book Summary : Ripley wanted it all: money, success, the good life. He was willing to kill to get it all... Patricia Highsmith's second novel, Mr. Ripley , is the birth certificate of one of the most extraordinary detective novel characters of all time: Tom Ripley, an immoralist as seductive as he is dangerous, cynical and extraordinarily intelligent. Charged by a wealthy American to bring back his son who has gone to Italy, he soon devises a diabolical plan: to replace the prodigal son, and live a gilded life in his place... This "superbly amoral" book ( The Times ), winner of the Grand Prix for detective literature in 1957, was adapted for the screen twice. In 1959, by René Clément, with Alain Delon in the lead role, under the title Plein soleil . In 2000, by the English director Anthony Minghella, with a host of young American actors, including Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law, under the title The Talented Mr. Ripley . EAN: 9782253055716 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 19 Purchase Street - BROWNE-GA - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253043263 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Manipulations - Robin Cook - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253040736 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Eye of the Angel - Andréa Japp - Book Summary : Gloria Parker-Simmons was determined never to work for the FBI again. Because of the danger, but also because of the painful ghosts of her past. When Cagney, her former colleague and fleeting lover, asks her to return to duty, she resists. But murders are on the rise around the thriving Caine ProBiotex vaccine company. A former employee, then Edward Caine's wife, and his English associate, Terry, are brutally murdered. When she discovers the extent of the scandal that is being covered up, Gloria will no longer be able to say no. We are all in the eye of the angel, and certain causes force us to come out of ourselves. Death drives, money frenzy, suspense... After The Parable of the Killer and The Female of the Species , Andrea H. Japp, a worthy rival to Patricia Cornwell, strikes again. Very hard! EAN: 9782253170853 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Murders in White Coats - Phyllis Dorothy James - Book Summary : The setting: the John Carpendar Hospital, an imposing Victorian-era establishment housing several departments, including a nursing school. The first victim: one of the students, killed in a particularly atrocious manner. The suspects: the nurses, and, above all, the director, the formidable Mary Taylor, her three "seconds," but also the big boss, Dr. Courtney-Briggs, who is soon discovered to have had an affair with one of the victims. The investigator: Commissioner Dalgliesh, of course, who, faced with women hardened to suffering, hardworking, accustomed to professional secrecy, and fiercely feminist, will have his work cut out to unravel a plot whose ramifications plunge deep into the past. A great vintage PD James, which earned its author two prestigious distinctions: the Gold Dagger of the Association of British Crime Writers and the American Edgar. EAN: 9782253055921 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Isle of the Dead - Phyllis Dorothy James - Book Summary : A Victorian castle built on an island: this is where a wealthy eccentric has invited some friends for the weekend. The program of festivities includes a play put on by a troupe of amateurs. But someone is disrupting the party, playing gruesome jokes at the guests' expense. Death is lurking around the island. Terror is setting in. Cordelia Gray, the young detective from The Prey for the Shadow plays the bodyguard and observes with a careful eye these guests whose good manners hide unspeakable vices. Energetic, intuitive, she unravels one by one the threads of this criminal spider's web. With In Isle of the Dead, PD James more than ever deserves her title of "queen of crime." In this subtle novel, ferocity, humor, and Elizabethan drama blend in an inimitable way. EAN: 9782253041139 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : May She Rest in Peace - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : Why does renowned psychologist Alex Delaware receive a file containing photos of 43 crimes? His friend, Detective Inspector Milo Sturgis, immediately recognizes the photos from a 20-year-old case he'd been relieved of. At the time, he'd just returned from Vietnam and was teaming up with a seasoned detective being investigated by the police department. The two friends reopen the investigation. But trying to shed light on this case, even after all these years, quickly becomes very dangerous... The detective series starring Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis has been translated worldwide and has won numerous awards, including the Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel and the prestigious Goldwyn and Anthony Awards. "Kellerman made the psychological detective novel a work of art." EAN: 9782020826099 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Angels of the Night - John Connolly - Book Summary : When betrayals come at a high price... They're called the Reapers, and they're the elite of killers. Men so terrifying we barely dare speak their names. Louis, Detective Charlie Parker's friend, was trained by this shadowy army before drawing a line under his past. But now he's the target of the Reapers, and more specifically, Bliss, the killer of killers. Will Charlie Parker, whom Louis has often gotten out of trouble, manage to save him? A picture of a twilight world where everything is corruption, where crimes go unpunished but where betrayals are paid for dearly, The Angels of the Night fascinates and chills the blood. EAN: 9782258078697 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle - Book Summary : Dismal cries echo across the moor... And now the legend takes shape. An enormous dog, a ghostly and infernal creature, is said to be behind the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Cursed be Hugo, the impious and atheistic ancestor, who, in his time, provoked the forces of evil! But Sherlock Holmes cannot believe such nonsense. So, when he dispatches the faithful Watson to Sir Henry, the heir newly arrived from America, he has no doubt he will quickly put an end to these speculations. Yet, death has struck several times on the moor. And the manor is the scene of very strange phenomena... Could it be that the Baskerville curse still weighs heavily? EAN: 9782290334768 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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