French Thrillers

Paris, 1393. A masquerade ball at the palace ends in tragedy, with four revelers burned to death. Was it an accident...or did someone deliberately hurl a flaming torch at the dancers? Convinced it was an act of murder and that the king himself was the real target, Queen Isabeau has asked Christine de Pizan to spend time at court in an attempt to uncover the identity of the would-be assassin.

Pour le comprendre, d'abord tu devras savoir que ton père avait un frère dont il ne t'a jamais parlé. Ensuite, que ce frère vient de mourir. Et pour finir, que tu es cité dans son testament comme seul héritier d'une mystérieuse propriété à El Chaltén, un village idyllique de Patagonie. Tu voyageras jusque là-bas pour la vendre, mais tu commettras l'erreur de poser trop de questions. Tu comprendras alors que, trente ans après le crime, à El Chaltén se cache quelqu'un qui est décidé à te rayer de la carte pour que tu n'arrives pas à la vérité.

Un thriller dal congegno perfetto che spingerà anche voi a entrare "nel bosco".Il romanzo rivelazione di una delle migliori scrittrici di crime del momento.Un pomeriggio di agosto, tre ragazzini scendono dalle loro biciclette per andare a giocare nel bosco lí vicino, e la sera non fanno ritorno a casa. Soltanto uno di loro viene ritrovato, in stato catatonico, avvinghiato a una grossa quercia, le scarpe da ginnastica sporche di sangue. Non ricorda niente di quanto è accaduto e dei suoi compagni non c'è alcuna traccia.

A late-night murder of a diamond merchant’s veteran employee in London’s Hatton Gardens has Scotland Yard calling on Inspector French to investigate. When French gets there he finds not only the victim but missing diamonds and money from an open safe. There are meager clues as the Inspector follows a trail to mainland Europe and back. There are many false clues and several suspects with much of the searching leading to nothing but dead ends. We can listen as French sorts it all out, finding the missing diamonds and nabbing the murderer.

Pour James Bond et les services secrets britanniques, les enjeux ne pourraient pas être plus importants. La mission de 007 est de neutraliser l'agent russe Le Chiffre en le ruinant à la table de baccarat, ce qui obligera ses maîtres soviétiques à le "faire disposer". Lorsque Le Chiffre se met à perdre, Bond se rend compte que la chance a tourné en sa faveur - jusqu'à ce qu'il rencontre Vesper Lynd, un agent glamour qui pourrait bien causer sa perte.

A missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter Bruno's charming village of St Denis. A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a well in an ancient hilltop castle. The young woman, Claudia, had been working in the archives of an eminent French art historian, a crippled Resistance war hero, at his art-filled chateau.

È una fredda notte del 1983 quando il cuore di Frank viene spezzato. Aspetta per ore la fidanzata Rosie sotto l'alone nebbioso di un lampione; i due hanno progettato di fuggire insieme lontano dalla povertà del loro quartiere di Dublino, per vivere di amore e musica a Londra. Ma la ragazza non si presenta. Ventidue anni dopo, viene ritrovata la vecchia valigia di Rosie con dentro i biglietti del traghetto che avrebbe dovuto portarli in Inghilterra.

Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation.

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

Qui a tiré un coup de revolver, en pleine nuit, dans l'hôtel particulier de la puissante famille Gendreau-Balthazar, rue Chaptal ? Tout jeune secrétaire du commissariat du quartier Saint-Georges, Jules Maigret se voit confier une enquête officieuse - car on n'attaque pas de front ces gens de la haute société aux relations influentes. Maigret va habilement débrouiller l'écheveau des secrets de la famille Gendreau.

Bruno Courreges is chief of police of the lovely town of St Denis in the Dordogne. His main wish is to keep the local people safe and his town free from crime. But crime has a way of finding its way to him. For 30 years, Bruno's boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, has been obsessed with his first case. It was never solved and Bruno knows that this failure continues to haunt J-J. A young male body was found in the woods near St Denis and never identified. For all these years, J-J has kept the skull as a reminder. He calls him 'Oscar'.

A chance invitation from friends saves Ruth Averill's life on the night her uncle's old house in Starvel Hollow is consumed by fire, killing him and incinerating the fortune he kept in cash. Dismissed at the inquest as a tragic accident, the case is closed - until Scotland Yard is alerted to the circulation of bank notes supposedly destroyed in the inferno. Inspector Joseph French suspects that dark deeds were done in the Hollow that night and begins to uncover a brutal crime involving arson, murder and body snatching.

Pourquoi Merete Lyyngaard croupit-elle dans une cage depuis des années ? Pour quelle raison ses bourreaux s'acharnent-ils sur la jeune femme ? Cinq ans auparavant, la soudaine disparition de celle qui incarnait l'avenir politique du Danemark avait fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Mais, faute d'indices, la police avait classé l'affaire. Jusqu'à l'intervention des improbables Carl Mørck et Hafez el Assad du Département V, un flic sur la touche et son assistant d'origine syrienne.

Par une nuit brumeuse de décembre, une jeune femme est repêchée dans la Seine au niveau du Pont-Neuf. Nue, amnésique, mais vivante. Très agitée, elle est conduite à l'infirmerie de la préfecture de police de Paris... d'où elle s'échappe au bout de quelques heures.

Au XVIIIe siècle vécut en France un homme qui compta parmi les personnages les plus généreux et les plus horribles de son époque. Il s'appelait Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Sa naissance, son enfance furent épouvantables et tout autre que lui n'aurait pas survécu. Mais, Grenouille n'avait besoin que d'un minimum de nourriture et de vêtements, et son âme n'avait besoin de rien.

Enquête d'enfer pour Hannah ! La vie est parfois un long fleuve tranquille à Lake Eden. Ainsi, depuis quelque temps, Hannah Swensen, la pétillante pâtissière du Cookie Jar coule des jours à peu près paisibles entre Norman et Mike, les deux hommes de sa vie, et Moshe, son chat adoré, à qui elle s'est mis en tête de concocter des recettes sucrées. Mais il suffit de pas grand-chose pour que le paradis devienne un enfer. Ainsi, l'arrivée en ville d'une bad girl, Beverly Thorndike, l'ex de Norman, conduit celui-ci à se comporter de façon de plus en plus étrange et, pour tout dire, très agaçante.

Everyone in Tenney’s Harbor knows about the Garrison tragedy - how an unexplained fire ravaged their house, killing four of the five family members. But what people don’t know is who did it. All fingers point at Pearl Haskins’ father, who was the caretaker of the property, but Pearl just doesn’t believe it. Leave it to a town of rich people to blame “the help.” With her disgraced father now trying to find work in between booze benders, Pearl’s future doesn’t hold much more than waiting tables at the local country club.

Paris, un atelier d'artiste caché au fond d'une allée verdoyante. Madeline l'a loué pour s'y reposer et s'isoler. À la suite d'une méprise, cette jeune flic londonienne y voit débarquer Gaspard, un écrivain misanthrope venu des États-Unis pour écrire dans la solitude. Ces deux écorchés vifs sont contraints de cohabiter quelques jours. L'atelier a appartenu au célèbre peintre Sean Lorenz et respire encore sa passion des couleurs et de la lumière.

When Bonnie Graham arrives at her boyfriend’s apartment in London, she is horrified to discover a dead body in a pool of blood on the floor. But she doesn’t call the police. Bonnie hides the corpse and then carefully wipes away any evidence she was ever there. Bonnie is a music teacher who spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band to play at a friend’s wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members find the complicated knots of their friendships - some old, some new - unraveling as the days themselves unwind.

Quand Jake Epping, professeur d'anglais, accepte la mission insolite que son ami Al, mourant, veut lui confier - empêcher l'assassinat de Kennedy le 22 novembre 1963 - il ne soupçonne pas à quoi il s'engage. Une fissure temporelle ramène Jake en 1958, à l'époque faste des Plymouth Fury, d'Elvis, mais aussi de JFK et d'un certain Lee Harvey Oswald... Il y rencontrera même l'amour de sa vie. Mais altérer l'Histoire - la grande ou la petite - n'est pas sans conséquences.