En gare de Tokyo, Kimura s'apprête à monter dans le Shinkansen, le train à grande vitesse japonais, avec une arme à feu cachée dans son sac. Sa cible ? Un collégien qui a poussé son fils de 6 ans du haut d'un toit, le laissant entre la vie et la mort.
Mais Kimura ignore qu'il est loin d'être le seul passager armé. Parmi les voyageurs se trouvent aussi Citron et Mandarine, les hommes de main d'un gangster qui doivent lui ramener son fils, victime d'un kidnapping - ainsi que la valise contenant la rançon. Et puis Nanao, un assassin malchanceux chargé de récupérer ladite valise.
Une situation explosive, en particulier quand tout ce petit monde est voué à se croiser dans les compartiments du bullet train...
LE CRIME DE L'ORIENT-EXPRESS MEETS LA FILLE DU TRAIN MEETS USUAL SUSPECTS, LE TOUT À LA SAUCE NIPPONE !
Nothing could be more relaxing or sedate than a quiet game of bowls on a pristine bowling green bathed in the sunshine of an English summer''s afternoon in the Cotswolds - unless there''s a dead body lying on the grass. Agatha Raisin becomes embroiled in a turmoil of jealousy and lies when the tranquility of her local bowls club explodes into a storm of accusation and intrigue - and murder. Her private life is no less turbulent when a past suitor reappears just as her ex-husband seems intent on rekindling their romance, and her close friend, Bill Wong, is in danger of losing the woman he loves. Events take an even darker turn when Agatha realises that, in pursuing the bowling green killer, she is putting her own life in danger...
''A dazzlingly shapeshifting novel . . . equally good at action scenes and in-depth psychology'' The Sunday Times ''A thriller with a surprisingly heartfelt and redemptive ending, Billy Summers is a compelling and engrossing read'' Sunday Express From legendary storyteller and No. 1 bestseller Stephen King, whose ''restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained'' ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He''s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he''ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything. This spectacular can''t-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It''s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. You won''t put this story down, and you won''t forget Billy.
Death is coming to Bruncliffe; its target is Samson O''Brien. Oblivious to his impending date with darkness, Samson is busy juggling a series of cases at the Dales Detective Agency. Too busy, in fact, to take the entreaties of a certain Mrs Lister seriously. The concerned mother is convinced her son Stuart - the local lettings agent at Taylor''s Estate Agents - has gone missing, despite evidence to the contrary. But while Samson is otherwise engaged, Delilah knows what is coming. A hitman. Sent from London with one objective: silence the troublesome O''Brien once and for all before his corruption case can make it to court. With Samson''s life in peril, Delilah has no choice but to turn to the people of Bruncliffe for help if she is to stop the hitman from achieving his objective. Only trouble is, the townsfolk have long memories and deep grievances when it comes to Samson O''Brien. They will take some convincing before they put themselves in danger in order to save him. In a race against time, and with the life of the man she loves in the balance, Delilah will have to call on all of her connections built up over a lifetime in Bruncliffe in order to push back the darkness that is threatening to engulf the Dales town. But even that might not prove enough.
Berry has called Dan Brown and raised him, taking the lead in the big-money game of the religious-relic thriller>
She''s hunting for a killer story . . . 1979 . It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is hunting for the story that will make her name. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs an explosive scoop for the boys'' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won''t stop there. When she discovers a home-grown terrorist threat, Allie comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she''s a woman in a man''s world . . . and putting a foot wrong could be fatal. This is the electrifying first novel in a gripping new series by Queen of Crime Val McDermid.
Three Debts Paid is the fifth gripping legal thriller from the pen of highly acclaimed crime writer and New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Daniel Pitt is defending an old college professor from Cambridge, who has been accused of plagiarism, when a series of brutal murders occurs on the streets of London. The rainy-day slasher, as the crazed killer becomes known, violently attacks his victims in the pouring rain and then removes one of their fingers before leaving the bodies. Daniel''s dear friend Miriam fford Croft, newly qualified as a pathologist, is tasked with examining the bodies for clues and when Special Branch warn the police to stop investigating one of the victims, Daniel finds himself reluctantly drawn into this haunting mystery...
The incredible new book in Louise Penny''s #1 bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given at the Universite de l''Estrie in Quebec, he is dubious. Why ask the head of homicide to provide security for what sounds like a minor, even mundane lecture? But dangerous ideas about who deserves to live in order for society to thrive are rapidly gaining popularity, fuelled by the research of the eminent Professor Abigail Robinson. Yet for every person seduced by her theories there is another who is horrified by them. When a murder is committed days after the lecture, it''s clear that within crowds can lie madness. To uncover the truth, Gamache must put his own feelings about the divisive Professor to one side. But with her ideas gaining ground, the line separating good and evil, right and wrong, is quickly blurring - especially when the case leads unexpectedly close to home ... PRAISE FOR LOUISE PENNY AND THE INSPECTOR GAMACHE SERIES: ''Louise Penny is one of the greatest crime writers of our times'' DENISE MINA ''She makes most of her competitors seem like wannabes'' THE TIMES ''Gamache has become to Canada what Hercule Poirot is to Belgium'' THE NEW YORK TIMES ''Louise Penny twists and turns the plot expertly tripping the reader up just at the moment you think you might have solved the mystery'' DAILY EXPRESS ''The series is deep and grand and altogether extraordinary . . . Miraculous'' WASHINGTON POST ''No one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny.'' ELLY GRIFFITHS ''An absolute joy'' IRISH TIMES
''A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER'' PAULA HAWKINS ''WRITTEN PRE-COVID - GRIPPING, SCARY AND PERSUASIVE'' IAN RANKIN ''THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF'' A.J. FINN ''GRIPPING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. WHAT A DEBUT!'' SARAH PEARSE, author of The Sanatorium ''BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE'' JENNY COLGAN ''AN ENGROSSING DEBUT'' STYLIST ''HUGE IN SCOPE...AS TENSE AS THE TAUTEST THRILLER'' RED ''THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT FICTION FOR 2021'' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ''AN UNFLINCHINGLY PACY MUST-READ'' GRAZIA ''AN UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT'' PRIMA ________________________________________________________ A RACE AGAINST TIME The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat.
A FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love against all odds.
A DISASTER LIKE NO OTHER Can they find a cure before it''s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation?
Compelling and devastating, The End of Men is the pulse-pounding thriller everyone is talking about. ________________________________________________________ ''A POWERFUL, GRIPPING BOOK THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL A LITTLE BIT BETTER ABOUT THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW'' BRYONY GORDON ''FRIGHTENINGLY PRESCIENT... A COMPELLING, MOVING AND INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ''A TOUR DE FORCE - A FEMINIST REIMAGINING OF SOCIETY'' GILLIAN MCALLISTER ''COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING. A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT'' ABI DARe ''PACY, EMOTIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND ULTIMATELY A REMINDER OF THE STRENGTH OF LOVE AND HUMAN CONNECTION'' C.D. MAJOR ''A REMARKABLY PRESCIENT, WHIP-SMART, AND STRANGELY HOPEFUL NOVEL'' CHARLOTTE PHILBY '' DEVASTATING, PRESCIENT, COMPELLING AND CONFRONTING'' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS ''GRIPPING, MOVING AND SCARILY PRESCIENT. COULDN''T PUT IT DOWN'' CHARLOTTE NORTHEDGE, AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE GUEST ''MOVING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND TERRIFYINGLY PRESCIENT'' TAMMY COHEN ''TOPICAL, TIMELY, IMAGINATIVE AND ULTIMATELY HOPEFUL'' KATIE KHAN, AUTHOR OF HOLD BACK THE STARS ''AN INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT - BOTH A BREATH-TAKING FEAT OF IMAGINATION AND A WISE, STEADY EYE ON THE WORLD AS IT IS'' JESSICA MOOR, AUTHOR OF THE KEEPER
THE STANDALONE THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RAGDOLL - SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES ''Clever, original and gripping'' Rachel Abbott ********** 1989 DS Benjamin Chambers and DC Adam Winter are on the trail of a twisted serial killer with a passion for recreating the world''s greatest works of art through the bodies of his victims. But after Chambers almost loses his life, the case goes cold - their killer lying dormant, his collection unfinished. 1996 Jordan Marshall has excelled within the Metropolitan Police Service, fuelled by a loss that defined her teenage years. Obsessed, she manages to obtain new evidence, convincing both Chambers and Winter to revisit the case. However, their resurrected investigation brings about a fresh reign of terror, the team treading a fine line between police officers and vigilantes in their pursuit of a monster far more dangerous and intelligent than any of them had anticipated... ********** Praise for Daniel Cole: ''A brilliant, breathless thriller'' M.J. Arlidge '' Superb thriller writing'' Peter Robinson ''A star is born. Killer plot. Killer pace'' Simon Toyne
Mercy is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy , A Minute to Midnight and Daylight featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine from one of the world''s most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci. THE HUNT IS FINALLY OVER. FBI agent Atlee Pine is at the end of her long journey to discover what happened to her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted when the girls were just six years old - an incident which destroyed her family and left Atlee physically and mentally scarred. She knew her sister and parents were out there somewhere. And she had to find them. Dead or alive. Atlee and her assistant, Carol Blum, discover the truth. But the truth hurts. And hurt makes you tough. So how tough do you have to be to forgive? As they uncover a shocking trail of lies, greed, fear and revenge, they must face one final challenge. A challenge more deadly and dangerous than they could ever have imagined.
The Sunday Times bestseller As recommended by the BBC Radio 2 Book Club ''A mystery, a love story and a ghost story, all at once. Wonderful'' S. J. Watson ''Gripping'' Guardian ''Riveting'' Independent ''Excellent'' Observer ''A triumph'' Daily Mail Cornwall, 1972. Three keepers vanish from a remote lighthouse, miles from the shore. The entrance door is locked from the inside. The clocks have stopped. The Principal Keeper''s weather log describes a mighty storm, but the skies have been clear all week. What happened to those three men, out on the tower? The heavy sea whispers their names. The tide shifts beneath the swell, drowning ghosts. Can their secrets ever be recovered from the waves? Twenty years later, the women they left behind are still struggling to move on. Helen, Jenny and Michelle should have been united by the tragedy, but instead it drove them apart. And then a writer approaches them. He wants to give them a chance to tell their side of the story. But only in confronting their darkest fears can the truth begin to surface . . . Inspired by real events, The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex is an intoxicating and suspenseful mystery, an unforgettable story of love and grief that explores the way our fears blur the line between the real and the imagined.
The highly anticipated second thriller from the record-breaking, international bestselling author of THE SILENT PATIENT.
A killer crashes Michael Bennett''s wedding in the thirteenth thrilling novel by James Patterson featuring the NYPD''s top detective A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry - but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his anger escalates into all-out alarm. All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly distinct fashion. In the midst of such devastating loss of life, Bennett''s longtime love, Mary Catherine, is soon to become his wife. But just when New York''s top investigator should be donning his wedding finery, he may be stepping into a diabolical trap.
The "master of ticking-bomb suspense" Jeffery Deaver brings us the latest thriller featuring his most beloved protagonists. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are back - on the hunt for a criminal terrorising New York City A killer without limits He comes into your home at night. He watches you as you sleep. He waits. A city in turmoil He calls himself ''The Locksmith''. No door can keep him out. No security system can catch him. And now he''s about to kill.
A race against time to stop him Nobody in New York is safe. Now it''s up to Lincoln Rhyme to untangle the web of evidence and catch him.
But with Lincoln under investigation himself, and tension in the city at boiling point, time is running out...
December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St Michael''s Mount - and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary - interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins. Pivoting on a real moment in history, the ninth novel in the ''Josephine Tey'' series draws on all the much-loved conventions of the Golden Age Christmas mystery, whilst giving them a thrilling contemporary twist.
Peter Robinson''s DCI Banks is a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson ( Wild at Heart , Ballykissangel ) as Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe ( The Bill , Murphy''s Law ) as DI Annie Cabbot. Peter''s standalone novel BEFORE THE POISON won the IMBA''s 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter''s sixth Arthur Ellis award. His critically acclaimed DCI Banks novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world. In 2020 Peter was made a Grand Master by the Crime Writers of Canada. Peter grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. Peter keeps a website at www.inspectorbanks.com.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow''s original gritty detective ''Fantastic'' Lee Child ''Absolutely brilliant'' Mick Herron If the truth''s in the shadows, get out of the light . . . Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he''s dead and it was no accident. He''s left behind his share of enemies, but who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack Laidlaw''s reputation precedes him. He''s not a team player, but he''s got a sixth sense for what''s happening on the streets. As two Glasgow gangs go to war, Laidlaw needs to find out who got Carter before the whole city explodes.
THE NEW EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT THRILLER IN THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TEMPERANCE BRENNAN SERIES ''I await the next Kathy Reichs thriller with the same anticipation I have for the new Lee Child or Patricia Cornwell'' JAMES PATTERSON ''Over the course of twenty books, Kathy Reichs and Tempe Brennan have thrilled readers with pacey, mazey tales . . . We readers are truly grateful'' IAN RANKIN NO CRIME CAN STAY HIDDEN FOREVER When a hurricane hits the Carolinas it uncovers two bodies, sharing uncanny similarities with a cold case in Quebec that has haunted Temperance Brennan for fifteen years. At the same time, a rare bacterium that can eat human flesh is discovered in Charleston. Panic erupts and people test themselves for a genetic mutation that leaves them vulnerable. With support from her long time partner Andrew Ryan, in a search that soon proves dangerous, Temperance discovers the startling connection between the victims of both murder cases and that both the murders and the disease outbreak have a common cause . . . PRAISE FOR KATHY REICHS ''A thrilling read from one of my favorite writers'' KARIN SLAUGHTER, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Last Widow and The Good Daughter ''One of the absolute best thrillers of the year! I cant recall when this many twists have been so masterfully woven into a novel.'' JEFFERY DEAVER, #1 internationally bestseller author of The Bone Collector and The Never Game ''So many pulse-pounding twists and surprises--it kept me guessing till the end!'' R.L. STINE , bestselling author Goosebumps and Fear Street ''You will find it hard to put down'' MARK BOWDEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Stone and Black Hawk Down
''Outstanding.'' Irish Independent ''Exquisite.'' Daily Mail ''Hypnotic.'' Financial Times ''This is crime fiction for the connoisseur.'' The Times ''The body is in the library,'' Colonel Osborne said. ''Come this way.'' Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. Facing obstruction from all angles, Strafford carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the murderer. However, as the snow continues to fall over this ever-expanding mystery, the people of Ballyglass are equally determined to keep their secrets. ''A typically elegant country house mystery.'' Guardian ''A well-crafted story, peopled by superbly well-drawn characters, and put together in the finest prose . . . Masterly.'' Irish Independent
The #1 New York Times bestseller ''Glossy, gritty, breathlessly suspenseful, effortlessly authentic, and altogether wonderful '' Lee Child ''A compelling, suspenseful mystery'' Mark Billingham ''A mesmerising legal thriller'' Michael Connelly An explosive secret When legendary Washington judge Justice Wynn falls into a coma and puts his law clerk, Avery, in control, Avery''s world is turned upside down. Because Justice Wynn had a secret. One that nobody wants to come out...
A life in the balance As Wynn lies in hospital, Avery begins to unravel a sequence of clues, and realizes the puzzle will lead her directly into danger.
A showdown that will change everything But how high a price can you put on the truth? And is Avery brave enough to expose the White House itself?
A gripping political thriller from the activist, leader, and speaker Stacey Abrams.
''Brilliant'' LISA GARDNER ''Twisty and full of surprises'' KARIN SLAUGHTER ''Demands to be read in one sitting'' JEFFERY DEAVER ''Thrilling'' LEE CHILD
The Heron''s Cry is the second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring detective Matthew Venn, from the creator of Vera and Shetland , Ann Cleeves. North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder - Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed. His daughter Eve is a glassblower, and the murder weapon is a shard of one of her broken vases. Dr Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He''s a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved though to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. Then another body is found - killed in a similar way. Matthew finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home . . . The Long Call and The Heron''s Cry are part of Ann Cleeves'' Two Rivers series and have been recently commissioned for ITV.
* SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, PRODUCED BY REESE WITHERSPOON''S PRODUCTION COMPANY HELLO SUNSHINE, MAKERS OF BIG LITTLE LIES * ''A master storyteller. Gripping, big-hearted and twisty'' - GREER HENDRICKS ''I adored this beautifully written thriller'' - JO SPAIN IT WAS THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME: PROTECT HER Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his new wife, Hannah: protect her . Hannah knows exactly who Owen needs her to protect - his sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. And who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As her increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, his boss is arrested for fraud and the police start questioning her, Hannah realises that her husband isn''t who he said he was. And that Bailey might hold the key to discovering Owen''s true identity, and why he disappeared. Together they set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen''s past, they soon realise that their lives will never be the same again...
The gripping new thriller from multi-bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman and his son, Jesse, features a deputy coroner and a seemingly impossible case set against an atmospheric Californian backdrop. ''Storytelling at its best, I loved it'' Kathy Reichs Thirty-six hours is all it''s taken for society to break down. It''s Monday morning and the power has been out since Friday night. As deputy Coroner Clay Edison arrives at a large, gated house to investigate the sudden death of its wealthy owner in the mist of a city-wide blackout, he knows he has his work cut out for him...