Title : The Son - Jo Nesbø - Book Summary : Sonny Lofthus is a heroin addict, but he's a model prisoner. Taking on crimes he didn't commit to atone for the memory of his corrupt police officer father's suicide, he also acts as a mystical healer and collects confessions from his fellow inmates. One day, one of them will pull Sonny from his opiate-addled tranquility. He'd been lied to all his life, his father's death was anything but a suicide... He then manages to escape from prison and, while seeking a form of redemption, will commit implacable revenge. Wandering the slums of Oslo, prey to the demons of resentment and loss, he intends to make those who betrayed his father and destroyed his life pay. Whatever the cost. EAN: 9782070147403 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Atlanta Assassins - Hank the Mercenary Gérard De Villiers - Axel Kilgore - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782744313523 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Selected Works The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Ten Little Niggers Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Silent Night - Mary Higgins Clark - Book Summary : The story of a child armed only with the strength of his love and courage to face the worst trials of a nightmarish night that was supposed to be one of happiness. A very "special" tale, both terrible and moving, which brings to life our most buried anxieties, and brings us a tremendous breath of hope and dreams. EAN: 9782286079949 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Sweet Song - Mary Higgins Clark - Book Summary : Kate lies unconscious and badly burned in a hospital bed. The young woman managed to escape the flames that ravaged, in the middle of the night, the family antique furniture factory and the adjoining building where precious antiques were stored. Simple accident? For the police investigating the explosion that caused the fire, Kate is a suspect: what was she doing there at such a late hour, she who today works for one of the largest auditing firms? To exonerate her sister, Hannah is determined to search the ashes for the key to this disturbing enigma. At the risk of discovering a dangerous secret... The sweet melody of the past quickly becomes heady as the queen of suspense draws us into the heart of a fascinating family mystery, haunted by a ruthless killer. EAN: 9782253166337 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Blood Debt - Michael Connelly - Book Summary : No more serial killers! Terry McCaleb, a former FBI agent, has undergone a heart transplant. He's relaxing on his boat when a stranger asks him to investigate her sister's murder. McCaleb refuses, but she reveals that it was this woman's heart that was transplanted into him. So, to pay off his "blood debt," he meticulously resumes the police investigation and tracks down a killer with implacable logic... Michael Connelly is notably the author of Poet and of Los Angeles River, where we find Terry McCaleb. Blood debt won the Grand Prix de littérature policière in 1999 and was brought to the screen by Clint Eastwood. “The best Connelly since The Poet. EAN: 9782020484978 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Murder Live - Carol O'Connell - Book Summary : In Central Park, before the dazzling eyes of thousands of spectators, returning magician Oliver Tree repeats the feat of one of his now-departed colleagues, Max Candle. This trick, titled "The Lost Illusion," requires much more than skill and can prove deadly... When things go wrong, everyone is convinced it was an accident. Everyone except Kathleen Mallory, a detective with the Special Crimes Unit. She's convinced it was murder and that the killer will strike again. To continue her investigations into this new case, Mallory will have to confront Malakhai, a strange illusionist who converses daily with his wife, who died nearly half a century earlier. A specter who may well hold the keys to the mystery... EAN: 9782266130721 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Death at the Fenice - Donna Leon - Book Summary : Opera lovers are gathered at the Fenice in Venice, where that evening, Wellauer, the renowned German conductor, is conducting La Traviata. The bells ring announcing the end of the intermission, the spectators return to their seats, the musicians take their seats, the hubbub ceases, and everyone awaits the maestro's return. Minutes pass, the silence becomes heavy, and Wellauer is still not there... he lies dead in his dressing room. Commissioner Guido Brunetti, immediately dispatched to the scene, quickly concludes that the cause was cyanide poisoning. Did the highly respected musician have enemies? Behind the scenes at the opera, Guido Brunetti discovers what goes on behind the scenes. EAN: 9782020340373 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Paola Affair - An Investigation by Commissioner Brunetti - Donna Léon - Book Summary : Commissioner Guido Brunetti is in the hot seat: his own wife, Paola, is arrested after smashing the window of a travel agency she suspects of promoting sex tourism. Brunetti is temporarily relieved of his duties. But the case escalates with the murder of the agency's owner. As a clue, a letter is found next to the body accusing the deceased of being a "pornographer." EAN: 9782020555296 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Billy Straight - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : Billy, a 13-year-old boy who preferred the streets of Los Angeles to the beatings he received at home, saw, at 1 a.m., a young woman stabbed in Griffith Park by a man who then fled in a car with the license plate PLYR 1. The anonymity in which the child found his safety no longer existed because the murderer saw him. Quickly alerted by the park rangers, Detective Petra Connor discovers the identity of the victim, Lisa Ramsey, the ex-wife of a famous television actor. Petra immediately suspects the latter and, more seriously for Billy, realizes that someone saw the crime. Shortly after, in a villa that is falling into ruin, an old lady begins to read the newspaper with an assiduity that greatly surprises her companion... EAN: 9782020486262 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Terrors - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : In Los Angeles, the capital of neurosis and violence, the worlds of Dr. Freud and Raymond Chandler have always gone hand in hand. Alex Delaware, Hollywood's most perceptive shrink, knows all about it. It's been ten years since he last saw Melissa Dickinson, the rich little girl who came to confide in him about her childhood terrors and the ordeal of her mother, Gina, who was attacked by a jealous lover and has since suffered from extreme agoraphobia. But these are no longer nightmares: the criminal is out of prison, and Melissa is scared to death once again. To protect her from a horrific plot, Alex reverts to his inner private eye. What the shrink can't solve, the detective might be able to. EAN: 9782266072151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Midnight on the San Boldo Canal - Donna Leon - Book Summary : In the dead of night in Venice, a teenage girl falls from the San Boldo Bridge into a canal. Unable to swim, Manuela is about to drown when a passerby saves her. But she doesn't escape unscathed, suffering irreversible brain damage that condemns her to forever retain the mind of a child. Fifteen years later, at a charity gala, Brunetti meets Countess Lando-Continui, a wealthy patron of the arts, who turns out to be Manuela's grandmother and asks him to investigate the tragedy. She is convinced that it was not a simple accident. The commissioner hesitates because if it were a crime, the statute of limitations has expired. Guided by curiosity, compassion, and the desire to help an elderly woman wracked with guilt, and incidentally, his mother-in-law's best friend, Brunetti ends up accepting the case. A case that quickly proves to be most disturbing... EAN: 9782702160572 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Two Widows for a Will - Donna Leon - Book Summary : After leaving her boyfriend during a failed vacation, Anna Maria Giusti returns home. When she picks up her mail from her neighbor Constanza Altavilla, she finds her lying on the floor, her head in a pool of blood. For the coroner, there's no doubt about it: the old woman suffered a heart attack and, in her fall, hit her head on the radiator in her room. Dispatched to the scene, Commissioner Brunetti finds no clear evidence to contradict this hypothesis. Yet he can't accept it. Something else has happened, he has a feeling, but what? To get to the bottom of it, Brunetti delves into Signora Altavilla's life. First, her family, the retirement home where she spent her days, the battered women she took into her home... A complex personality emerges as his unofficial investigation unfolds, rich in secrets. Moreover, each witness seems multiple to him, becoming in turn hero or bandit, victim or executioner. There is no evidence, no straight lines here, everything is tortuous like the alleys of Venice that Brunetti walks to - perhaps - find the truth. EAN: 9782702143742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cat and Mouse - James Patterson - Book Summary : There are nightmares that never end. That of Alex Cross, a cop, psychologist, and occasional jazz musician, is named Gary Soneji. Fearsomely intelligent, Soneji loves evil for evil's sake, and all of America still remembers his Machiavellian crimes. Today, this monster, whom Cross thought he had permanently incapacitated, has managed to escape. Suffering from AIDS, he wants to exact one final and grandiose revenge against his old enemy. In Washington, D.C., as in New York, innocent people will perish in blood. Meanwhile, the FBI and police forces around the world are hunting the enigmatic Mr. Smith, a virtuoso with the scalpel. Mr. Smith, who sows his murdered victims throughout Europe with incredible cruelty, takes a malicious pleasure in playing cat and mouse with his pursuers. But if Cross enters the game, the game risks becoming much more dangerous... EAN: 9782709619783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ferret's Game - James Patterson - Book Summary : There are four of them, all of whom worked for the notorious MI16, the British intelligence service. Murder was part of their profession: now it's the main ingredient in their favorite game, The Four Horsemen. The most secret role-playing game on the Internet, but whose victims, chosen from the red-light districts of Bangkok as well as those of Washington, are anything but virtual. Faced with an unprecedented series of crimes, Alex Cross fights on all fronts. Against his superiors, who downplay the seriousness of the situation, against a psychopathic assassin protected by diplomatic immunity, against those who shattered his new life by daring to attack Christine just before their wedding. That's a lot for one man, even if he has a degree in psychology and is supported by a powerful grandmother! EAN: 9782709621731 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Scarlet Room - Nicci French - Book Summary : Regent's Canal, a suburb of London... Lianne, a runaway teenager, is found dead, face down, her body riddled with stab wounds. The police suspect Michael Doll, a vagrant known for his perverse tendencies. However, despite the sad history that links them, psychiatrist Kit Quinn has doubts about his guilt: the murder was carried out in a way that was far too precise for a brute like him. And, more disturbingly, this murder strangely echoes that of Philippa Burton, a wealthy bourgeois woman, whose body was recently discovered on the other side of town... "A model of a psychological thriller. It's impossible to put down the book, which resonates with you for a long time." Michèle Fitoussi – SHE EAN: 9782266144698 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Without a Goodbye - Harlan Coben - Book Summary : The master of your sleepless nights: origins. Masterful suspense, a truly Machiavellian plot, and psychological tension at its peak. From the Australian coast to the parks of Boston and the suburbs of New York, this is the first major breakthrough from the man who would revolutionize the world of thrillers. Laura Ayars and David Baskin, the former supermodel turned businesswoman and Celtics basketball superstar: a couple blessed by the gods! But, in the middle of their honeymoon, tragedy strikes. David goes swimming and disappears. Without a goodbye... Accident? Murder? Suicide? Laura launches an investigation and soon discovers thirty-year-old secrets that her loved ones have done everything they can to bury... Lies, betrayals, jealousies, murders... When the past threatens to resurface, a killer lurking in the shadows is ready to do anything to prevent the truth from coming out. EAN: 9782714447197 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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