Title: Mordoc - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : Kay Scarpetta has seen many corpses in her career as a forensic pathologist. Often dismembered, cut up, strangled... But she had yet to see one whose skin displayed, as a distinctive sign, the symptoms of the same disease. A disease that has been eradicated from the planet for thirty years! So who is Mordoc, serial killer, bold enough to introduce himself to Kay on the Internet, evil enough and crazy enough to spread a deadly virus? After Postmortem , A Death Without a Name and Death in Troubled Waters , the internationally successful thriller queen has managed to push the boundaries of terror a little further. EAN : 9782253170778 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Flesh and Blood - Michael Cunningham - book Summary : Constantin Stassos, a Greek immigrant, has little in common with Mary, a beautiful Italian-American married during the great utopia of the 1950s. A real estate developer based in Newark, New Jersey, he will build his success on the backs of those more unfortunate than him and turn out to be a violent man. Mary is a frustrated woman, who has trouble accepting the narrowness of everyday life. Three children are born: Susan, the eldest, has a relationship with her father that borders on incest. Billy, an emotional, vulnerable boy, is misunderstood by his father, particularly when he discovers his homosexuality. Zoe, the youngest, will go to live in Manhattan where she indulges in drugs and then, pregnant by a passing lover, a Black man, is adopted by a transvestite, Cassandra, who will help her raise her son. Beneath the respectable facade, the scandal is absolute. EAN : 9782253141563 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Op-Center Volume 2 - Virtual Image - Tom Clancy - book Summary : Commandos well-versed in secret warfare techniques, top specialists in strategy, IT, and psychology: Op-Center is the only agency in the world capable of intervening where the international balance risks tipping. But today, the supremacy of the American crisis unit is seriously threatened. The enemy? An elite team serving putschist officers in post-communist Russia. Their goal? To restore the former Soviet Union to its former glory. Coup d'état, sabotage, manipulation of mafia networks, drug trafficking—no means are repugnant to these highly trained specialists. Facing the most formidable enemy they have ever faced, the agents of Op-Center will have to perform unimaginable feats. World peace depends on it. EAN : 9782226088833 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Peril House - Agatha Christie - book Summary : A heavy painting falls off the headboard of a bed. A rock tumbles down a cliff and crashes onto the path. A car's brakes fail on a descent... And finally, a stray bullet lodges in a hat! For Hercule Poirot, vacationing on the south coast of England, there's little doubt: someone wants the life of the lovely Miss Buckley, heiress to a dilapidated villa nearby. Even if the woman in question opens her eyes wide, wondering who could possibly want to kill her. The murder of her cousin, who has obviously been mistaken for her, will force Miss Buckley to take the detective's fears seriously. He will relentlessly try to unmask the culprit. But only a very clever staging will allow him to succeed. And the surprise will be a big one. EAN : 9782253026822 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 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: The Moon Was Black - Michael Connelly - book Summary : Forced to take action to protect the secret that's tearing her apart, paroled Cassie Black decides to rob a high roller's suite at the Cleopatra Casino in Las Vegas. With surveillance cameras, armed guards, and armored safes, security is flawless—and led by one Karch, a sadistic and devious individual. Taking him on means courting death, but that's the risk Cassie must take if she wants to succeed. And it's nothing compared to what awaits her when she realizes the stakes are a thousand times higher than she thought at the start of the case. Because, of course, in the enormous game being played, all the cards are stacked. Michael Connelly delivers a dark thriller of the highest order. EAN : 9782020499941 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: 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: 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: 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 Upside-Down Man - Fred Vargas - book Summary : Letting wolves roam free in the Mercantour was a great idea, in keeping with the times. But it wasn't the idea of ​​the shepherds, and a few months later, revolt rages. But is it really a wolf that's killing the sheep around the village of Saint-Victor? Superstitions resurface, a rumor spreads: it's not a beast, it's a werewolf... When a breeder is found with her throat cut in her sheepfold, the rumor turns to psychosis. In Paris, Commissioner Adamsberg is on the lookout for news of the Beast of Mercantour: Like embers, my boy, like embers, the wolf's eyes make at night. EAN : 9782290349236 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Contagion - Robin Cook - book Summary : After the tragic deaths of his wife and daughters, John Stapleton, a coroner in New York, no longer expects anything from life. However, he is about to be torn from indifference and cynicism by a series of inexplicable deaths: patients are victims of viruses long since eradicated, such as the plague. All were being treated in hospitals run by the powerful insurance company Americare, to whom he owes the bankruptcy of his own ophthalmology practice. An encounter with Terese, an advertising executive working on a campaign for Americare's main competitor, will prompt him to seek out the source of the evil. They will both discover a plan of inhuman horror. The author of Risque mortel, himself a former surgeon and ophthalmologist, takes us through a merciless war where the hospital environment, obsessed with profitability, does not hesitate in the face of organized crime... An irresistible thriller, at the same time as a cry of alarm in the face of the excesses of a medicine subject to the law of profit. EAN : 9782253170822 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Muzzle - Minette Walters - book Summary : Mathilda Gillespie talked too much, drank too much, and terrorized those around her. She was extremely rich, greedy, and a liar. Her daughter took drugs, her granddaughter stole from her. Her will, ignored by all, disinherited them. She was found drowned in her bathtub, garlanded with asters and white nettles, like Ophelia, and wearing a rusty iron muzzle, like a medieval witch. This suicide, or more likely this murder, was a kind of masterpiece, an enigma resulting from a lifetime of lies, strange loves, hatreds, and violence. Perhaps only Mathilda's diary could reveal all its secrets. But this diary has disappeared. EAN : 9782266148887 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Lone Warrior - Henning Mankell - book Summary : Summer 1994, the small town of Ystad is slumbering in the heat. Glued to their television sets, all the Swedes are watching the football World Cup. But as Inspector Wallander prepares to go on vacation, a young girl sets herself on fire in a rapeseed field. The next day, a former minister is hacked to death. A series of terrifyingly brutal murders begins. The Ystad police, led by Kurt Wallander, begin a breathless race against time to stop the killer before he strikes again. But what is the connection between a retired former minister, a wealthy art dealer, and a low-life crook? Why are the victims being scalped? And who is the young girl who committed suicide? Does she have anything to do with the murders? EAN : 9782020419529 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: I Gave You My Heart - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Chance does things badly. Actress Natalie Raines, one of the queens of Broadway, is murdered just as she was preparing to divorce Gregg Aldrich, who was also her agent. An ideal suspect for the police and the prospect of a sensational trial for the press. Emily Wallace, the assistant district attorney, has never experienced a case of this magnitude: this is the first time in her life that she has been exposed to the media spotlight. Warned that they will not hesitate to delve into her private life, perhaps to reveal that she has undergone a heart transplant, the young woman nevertheless plunges passionately into the case. Emily is overwhelmed by inexplicable feelings of déjà vu throughout the trial, without her being aware that her own life is now in danger... When she explores the secret twists and turns of the human soul and heart, the queen of suspense always reaches the heights of anguish: her new novel is simply captivating! EAN : 9782226192219 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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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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