L'histoire d'un type bien...qui fait un sale boulot.

Billy Summers est un tueur à gages, le meilleur de sa profession, mais il n'accepte de liquider que les salauds. Aujourd'hui, Billy veut décrocher. Avant cela, seul dans sa chambre, il se prépare pour sa dernière mission...

À la fois thriller, récit de guerre, road trip et déclaration d'amour à l'Amérique des petites villes, Billy Summers est l'un des romans les plus surprenants dans l'oeuvre de Stephen King, qui y a mis tout son génie et son humanité.

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...

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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian''s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish emigre living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian''s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.br>br>When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . .br>br>Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carre asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.>
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Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he''s a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Welcome to the world of the malevolent monarch of the Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows.

AS NIGHT FALLS, A KILLER COMES TO LIGHT... '' An authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly''s very best.'' THE TIMES On New Year''s Eve at the end of one of the hardest years in history, hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air in time-honoured LA tradition. But as the rain of lead comes down, a man is shot dead in the middle of a crowded street party. Detective Renee Ballard soon connects the bullet to an unsolved cold case last worked by legendary ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch . As they investigate where the old and new cases connect, a new crime shatters the night shift. The Midnight Men are a pair of violent predators who stalk the city during the dark hours, and will kill to keep their identities secret. In a police department shaken to the core by pandemic and protests, both cases have the power to save Ballard''s belief in the job - or take everything from her...
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Moving, hilarious, brilliantly suspenseful'' Jeffery Deaverbr>''A thing of joy'' Kate Atkinsonbr>''The tonic we all need'' Shari Lapenabr>''This slick sequel will leave you buzzing'' The Timesbr>br>THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMANbr>br>----------------------------------------------br>br>It''s the following Thursday.br>br>Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He''s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.br>br>As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn''t that be a bonus?br>br>But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn''t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.br>br>Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?br>br>----------------------------------------------br>br>''I absolutely loved it. He''s not only done it again, but he''s done it even better'' Philippa Perry, The Book you Wish Your Parents Had Readbr>br>''Twisty, witty fun'' Sunday Expressbr>br>''Superbly entertaining'' Guardianbr>br>''I laughed my arse off'' Belinda Bauer, Exitbr>br>''Funny, clever and achingly British'' Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurtbr>br>''Full of humour and heart. I loved it'' Harlan Coban, Winbr>br>''Darkly funny, offbeat and deftly written'' Irish Independentbr>br>''As gripping as it is funny'' Evening Standardbr>br>''If you liked The Thursday Murder Club, you''re in for a treat, as this sequel is even better'' Good Housekeepingbr>br>''Warm, funny and oh-so British'' ibr>br>''A properly funny mystery steeped in Agatha Christie'' Araminta Hall, Hidden Depthsbr>br>''It''s like reading ice cream... a pure pleasure'' Linwood Barclaybr>br>''Osman''s world is a soothing place to be'' Sunday Telegraphbr>br>''Pure pleasure to read'' Observerbr>br>''Clever, warm and very funny... they''ll cradle you through any winter of discontent'' Richard and Judy, Daily Express>
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**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR** Murder. Assassination. Revenge. Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime. Meet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance on a plane, spelling romance or something far more sinister. In his first ever collection of short stories, this master of crime delivers a gripping, edge-of-your seat read that you won''t be able to put down. *JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE* PRAISE FOR JO NESBO: ''A storyteller with few equals'' Daily Express ''The king of Scandicrime'' Financial Times ''Deliciously dark'' Heat ''Nightmare-inducing and terrific'' The Times READERS LOVE JO NESBO: ***** ''Intriguing, mysterious, full of suspense'' Netgalley reader ***** ''To say I couldn''t put it down is an understatement...'' Netgalley reader ***** ''A great read with plenty of twists and surprises'' Netgalley read
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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...
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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.
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From the number one bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise - State of Terror .>

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.
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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 Lire la suite Fermer

''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 Lire la suite Fermer

Berry has called Dan Brown and raised him, taking the lead in the big-money game of the religious-relic thriller>

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...
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The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, f rom the Booker Prize winning author ''He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn''t. It wasn''t simple at all.'' When Dublin pathologist Quirke glimpses a familiar face while on holiday with his wife, it''s hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Could she really be who he thinks she is, and have a connection with a crime that nearly brought ruin to an Irish political dynasty? Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home and Detective St John Strafford is soon dispatched to Spain. But he''s not the only one on route: as a terrifying hitman hunts down his prey, they are all set for a brutal showdown. Lire la suite Fermer

Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he''s about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems. Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. Next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying to find her twin brother. He might have got mixed up with some dangerous people. And Reacher might just need to pay them a visit. Their leader has burrowed his influence deep into the town. Just to get in and meet the mysterious Dendoncker, Reacher is going to have to achieve the impossible. To get answers will be even harder. There are people in this hostile, empty place who would rather die than reveal their secrets. But then, if Reacher is coming after you, you might be better off dead.
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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.
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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
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The highly anticipated second thriller from the record-breaking, international bestselling author of THE SILENT PATIENT.

*** THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE APPEAL *** ''It totally foxed me. So clever and totally brilliant'' - LISA HALL ''Enid Blyton meets Agatha Christie with a cracking twist'' - MARION TODD ''Outstanding. Unlike anything you''ll ever read'' - IMRAN MAHMOOD ________________________________________ It''s time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children''s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Wanting to know more, he took it to his English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford''s novels. Then Miss Iles disappeared on a class field trip, and Steven has no memory of what happened to her. Now, out of prison after a long stretch, Steven decides to investigate the mystery that has haunted him for decades. Was Miss Iles murdered? Was she deluded? Or was she right about the code? And is it still in use today? Desperate to recover his memories and find out what really happened to Miss Iles, Steven revisits the people and places of his childhood. But it soon becomes clear that Edith Twyford wasn''t just a writer of forgotten children''s stories. The Twyford Code has great power, and he isn''t the only one trying to solve it... Perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Alex Pavesi and S.J. Bennett, The Twyford Code will keep you up puzzling late into the night. Lire la suite Fermer

From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors of the top ten bestseller The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl , comes The Golden Couple - a compelling page-turner that will keep you guessing to the very end. If Avery Chambers can''t fix you in ten sessions, she won''t take you on as a client. She helps people overcome everything, from domineering parents to assault. Her successes almost help her absorb the emptiness she feels since her husband''s death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple, until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things - both because she loves her husband, and for the sake of their eight-year-old son. After a friend forwards an article about Avery, Marissa takes a chance on this maverick therapist, who lost her license due to controversial methods. When the Bishops glide through Avery''s door and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it''s no longer simply a marriage that''s in danger.
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A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from. Across town, Raven finds himself drawn into Edinburgh''s mire when a package containing human remains washes up on the shores of Leith, and an old adversary he has long detested contacts him, pleading for Raven''s help to escape the hangman. Sarah and Raven''s lives seem indelibly woven together as they discover that wealth and status cannot alter a fate written in the blood. Lire la suite Fermer

She thought the murders had stopped. She was wrong.

''A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you''ll never see coming'' Karin Slaughter ''Spectacular'' Daily Mail ''Tense, twisty and threatening, A Flicker in the Dark will make you abandon your box sets'' Val McDermid The instant New York Times bestseller, soon to be a major TV series, developed by Emma Stone Chloe Davis'' father is a serial killer. He was convicted and jailed when she was twelve but the bodies of the girls were never found, seemingly lost in the surrounding Louisiana swamps. The case became notorious and Chloe''s family was destroyed.
His crimes stalk her like a shadow. Now Chloe has rebuilt her life. She''s a respected psychologist in Baton Rouge and has a loving fiance. But she just can''t shake a tick-tick-tick of paranoia that, at any moment, it might all come crashing down.
As does something darker. It is the anniversary of her father''s crimes, and Chloe is about to see her worst fears come true - a girl she knows goes missing.

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