The master of the techno-blockbuster joins forces with the master of the modern thriller to create the most anticipated mega bestseller in years.
Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, and Westworld, had a passion project he'd been pursuing for years, ahead of his untimely passing in 2008. Knowing how special it was, his wife, Sherri Crichton, held back his notes and the partial manuscript until she found the right author to complete it: James Patterson, the world's most popular storyteller.
Le 9 juin 1870, Charles Dickens meurt, laissant inachevé Les mystères d'Edwin Drood, roman policier avant l'heure. Il n'a pu écrire que six épisodes sur les douze prévus. Cinq ans plus tôt, Dickens était miraculeusement sorti indemme d'un dramatique accident de train. Dan Simmons s'empare de cet événement : alors que Dickens tente d'aider les voyageurs blessés, il aperçoit un personnage spectral au nez et aux doigts coupés, Drood. Dickens se rend chez l'écrivain Wilkie Collins, son collaborateur et rival, et lui fait part de l'épisode étrange qu'il vient de vivre. Les deux compères se mettent en chasse de leur Moriarty - ennemi le plus redouté de Sherlock Holmes - à eux : Drood. À travers les bas-fond de Londres à l'époque victorienne, dans le brouillard des hallucinations de Wilkie Collins qui abuse de son traitement au laudanum, on découvre un Dickens promeneur infatigable, féru d'hypnose, amoureux clandestin d'une jeune actrice et dont le sombre esprit se fêle un peu plus à chaque page.
Years after the death of a sixteen-year-old girl is ruled a suicide, detective Harry Bosch receives DNA evidence that reopens the case, which involves an investigation of a white supremacist with close ties to the LAPD.
Will Robie returns home from a mission overseas to discover that his boss--codenamed Blue Man--has vanished. His last known location was in remote Colorado, and there have been no other sightings or communications since. But there is violence brewing in this small town, and Robie and his sometime-partner Jessica Reel will be lucky if they make it out alive, with or without Blue Man.
When a wealthy socialite and her secretary are found murdered in a stately West Village townhouse, a flurry of seemingly unrelated people spring into action.
A latest Inspector John Rebus mystery finds the Edinburgh investigator pursuing a case in the city's red-light district, where refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subject to the most ruthless members of the crime world. By the award-winning author of A Question of Blood. Reprint.
The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice, and there is something out there that is snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring. As the Terror on the ice become evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape.
Meet Peter Brown, a young Manhattan ER Doctor who has a past he'd prefer to stay hidden. When a figure from the old days emerges it looks increasingly unlikely that his secret will stay intact.
Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is given three months to live, and it's clear to Peter that the clock is ticking for both of them. He must do whatever it takes to keep him - and his patient - alive.
Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.
When a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins according to the dictates of Alcoholics Anonymous, Matthew Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to derail his own sobriety.
