Title : Snjor - Ragnar Jónasson - book Summary : Siglufjördur, a remote town in the north of Iceland, where it snows constantly and nothing ever happens. Ari Thór, who has just graduated from police academy in Reykjavik, is sent there for his first assignment. But then an elderly writer falls to his death in a theater and a woman's body is found, half-naked, in the snow. To solve the investigation, Ari Thór will have to unravel the lies and secrets of this seemingly peaceful little community. "A science of descriptions and a subtlety of psychological states, Ragnar J?nasson earns himself a place behind Arnaldur Indridason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir." The Express Translated from the English version, from the Icelandic, by Philippe Reilly EAN : 9782757863787 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Midsummer Nights - Viveca Sten - book Summary : On the island of Sandhamn, a young girl disappeared during the night. Inspector Thomas Andreasson and his team comb the area, but Lina Rosén is nowhere to be found. The investigation concludes that it was an accidental drowning. A few months later, Nora Linde, Thomas's childhood friend, decides to take a few days' vacation on the island with her children. While playing in the forest, her two boys make a gruesome discovery: human remains buried in a bag under the snow. Is it possible that this is Lina's corpse? And what is this shadow threatening the Roséns? Despite the lack of leads, Thomas and Nora have a strange premonition: Lina's killer is not finished with his sinister mission. With this third title, Viveca Sten has established herself as the number 1 in sales in Sweden.  With a keen eye for detail, Viveca Sten manages to hook the reader right to the end. Relentless suspense! Hubert Lizé, Aujourd'hui en France . EAN : 9782253111955 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Norferville - Franck Thilliez - book Summary : In the hostile world of the Great North, no one can hear you scream. A detective and criminologist in Lyon, Teddy Schaffran learns that his daughter's body has been discovered in a remote mining town in the far north of Quebec, Norferville. Morgane has been brutally mutilated, abandoned in the snow not far from an indigenous reserve. Without thinking, Teddy drops everything to go there, determined to understand what happened. There, Léonie Rock, a mixed-race police officer, is put on the case. She is then forced to reconnect with this isolated place where she was born and where, as a teenager, three strangers raped her. A return to her hell, while temperatures hover around -20°C. Together, these two beings, tested by life, will strive to find answers, despite the inhospitality of nature and men. EAN : 9782266349024 Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sharko and Hennebelle - Delayed - Franck Thilliez - book Summary : When we tip into madness, it is often too late! Chambly Difficult Patients Unit. A new patient is admitted. Delusional, undocumented, and unfit for police custody, he has pushed a passenger onto the tracks for no reason and claims to be "fleeing worms." Seine-Saint-Denis, fifty kilometers away. Sharko and his team discover the body of a fifty-year-old man brutally murdered near his bed. There are no fingerprints or traces of DNA in his home, not even his own. Who are these two men? What are their stories? EAN : 9782265157811 New Book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Eye in the Night - Bernard Minier - book Summary : In the mountains, secluded from the world, a horror film director, Morbus Delacroix. Cult, misanthrope, madman. Among his fans is a film student. Fascinated, fearless, unaware. In Toulouse, a special effects ace is found dead, tied up in a hospital bed. What if this murder had its source in a cursed film? For Commander Martin Servaz, perhaps the greatest enigma of his career... EAN : 9782374484976 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bites from the Past - Lisa Gardner - book Summary : In a working-class neighborhood of Boston, five bodies are found lying dead. They are members of the same family. All shot in the head, the father still breathing shallowly. Clearly, this man, burdened with debt, has decided to murder his family before killing himself. Called to the scene, investigator DD Warren immediately understands that the case is more complicated than it seems: six place settings had been set on the dinner table... Lisa Gardner once again excels in mastering chilling suspense and constructing complex plots that will shock the reader. Her best book. And above all, a pure nightmare… Philippe Blanchet, Le Figaro magazine EAN : 9782253004646 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Salt - Jussi Adler-Olsen - book Summary : Carl Mørck and the Department V team delve back into an unsolved case from the 1980s. They discover to their shock that, for the past thirty years, a particularly cunning killer has been choosing a victim with frightening regularity and eliminating them by disguising the murder as an accident or suicide. Each time, a small pile of salt is found at the crime scene. Against the backdrop of health restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mørk and his accomplices embark on an investigation of a magnitude they had no idea they would have. A tightly woven thriller by Danish virtuoso Jussi Adler-Olsen, who explores ethics and morality in a novel as intelligent as it is political. Adler-Olsen mixes acerbic humor, cynicism, and a desire for social justice. Enjoyable. Julie Malaure, The Point . EAN : 9782253243922 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lost Ball in Moliets - Maxbarteam - book Summary : A golf complex set like an emerald along the ocean, on the green carpet of the Landes forest. A world-class course perfectly maintained by the late Max, a greenkeeper by trade, who lost his life in a road accident. But is this handsome, dark-skinned man really so missed? What do golf director Luc Chevalier and his wife, both of them quiet, think? Flore and her husband Laurent, teachers at the club? What about the village mayor, who is upset by the course's expansion in preparation for the Ryder Cup? The young chief of police Morgan Teillagorry, a Basque by birth, has a good feeling that this accident might not be one. Flanked by his colorful colleague Marcel Parayous, he wants to get to the bottom of it. The intrusion of the constabulary into the hushed little world of the clubhouse causes surprising chain reactions. Players, season ticket holders or occasional players, members of the golf association, beautiful female players and wives of neglected or jealous golfers, an irascible wolf hunting lieutenant, from one twist to another, the police think they're on to something. What if it was really an accident? But why can't the prosecutor do anything? A retired gendarme, he now lives secluded in the Landes forest by the ocean. He selfishly but simply enjoys the delights of Gascony, its climate, gastronomy, and nature. A very active athlete but rarely a spectator, after marathons and long-distance races, he practices golf, competitive cycling, and motorcycling. He published "Women, Men, and Cycling" with Gascogne. (99 stories about cycling). EAN : 9782350683904 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Passage of Shadows - Arnaldur Indridason - book Summary : Stephan Thorson seemed as if asleep... With shock, the coroner realizes that he was suffocated. Why murder a solitary and silent nonagenarian? In his drawers, articles on the murder of a seamstress found in 1944, in the infamous Passage des Ombres. Sixty years later, ex-inspector Konrad decides to reopen the double investigation. He discovers a time when Iceland, torn between modernity, traditions, and legends, was not kind to young girls... Arnaldur Indridason is the greatest contemporary Icelandic crime writer. All of his novels are available in Points. "Dark yesterdays like poorly erased stains in the memories of survivors. Indridason weaves together a gripping plot that leads the reader by the nose." - The Express The Shadow Trilogy 3 EAN : 9782757875018 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Reykjavik Nights - Arnaldur Indridason - book Summary : The homeless man's body floated near the pipeline where he had taken refuge. A sad end for an alcoholic? Case closed, or almost... A young police officer, intuitive and stubborn, considers the accident theory dubious. In the boreal night, between homeless shelters and drug dealer hideouts, he crisscrosses Reykjavik, determined to solve this mystery. This police officer is none other than Erlendur. Born in Iceland in 1961, Arnaldur Indridason is a journalist and film critic. His novels have been published in over thirty countries. The Lava Wall And The Duel are notably available in Points. "Arnaldur Indridason revisits his hero's early life. He paints an intimate, infinitely sensitive portrait, imbued with a painful poetry that touches the heart and soul." Télérama EAN : 9782757857960 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Black Lagoon - Arnaldur Indridason - book Summary : There are disappearances that haunt a man, investigations that shape a police officer. The Blue Lagoon was a little paradise until a body was found there. An engineer from the American base who apparently fell from a plane. In the atmosphere of the Cold War, the police are interested in mysterious flights between Greenland and Iceland. At the same time, Inspector Erlendur investigates a young girl who disappeared on her way to school forty years earlier, at a time when modernity arrived clandestinely in Iceland, carried by rock records and jeans from the American base... EAN : 9782757862728 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Strange Shores - Arnaldur Indridason - book Summary : One stormy night, newlywed Matthildur disappeared along a wild path. Sixty years later, her body has still not been found. Returning to the land of her childhood, haunted by the death of her little brother, Commissioner Erlendur investigates. Why didn't she encounter the group of English soldiers lost in the mountains? Beneath the ice of Iceland's fjords, the past never dies. Born in Iceland in 1961, Arnaldur Indridason is a journalist and film critic. His novels have been published in over 30 countries. The Woman in Worms t and The City of Jars are notably available in Points. "It is the coldest, most stripped-down, and most gripping of Indridason's novels." The New Observer “A powerful force that grabs at the heart.” The Literary Figaro EAN : 9782757843024 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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