Tom Sawyer est un h?ros de fiction cr?? par Mark Twain qui appara?t en 1876 dans Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer. Inspir? de la jeunesse de l'auteur, c'est un personnage qui est devenu un symbole de libert? dans la culture populaire, mais que Twain a d?peint de mani?re contrast?e et parfois critique.Thomas Sawyer est un gar?on orphelin, d'?ge ind?termin?, qui ne pense qu'? faire l'?cole buissonni?re avec Huckleberry Finn et Joe Harper, ? s'identifier aux personnages de ses romans d'aventures pr?f?r?s et ? jouer des tours ? ses ...
Le jour, Dexter Morgan est expert judiciaire ? la police de Miami; la nuit, il se transforme en tueur en s?rie. Pas n’importe lequel, notez bien: un serial-killer justicier qui ne tue que ceux qui le m?ritent. Un double meurtre particuli?rement sordide laisse pourtant notre cher Dexter fort perplexe: serait-il confront? ? plus fort que lui?
Ancien r?dacteur de , revue d'investigations sociales et ?conomiques, Mikael Blomkvist est contact? par un gros industriel pour relancer une enqu?te abandonn?e depuis quarante ans. Dans le huis clos d'une ?le, la petite ni?ce de Henrik Vanger a disparu, probablement assassin?e, et quelqu'un se fait un malin plaisir de le lui rappeler ? chacun de ses anniversaires.Second? par Lisbeth Salander, jeune femme rebelle et perturb?e, plac?e sous contr?le social mais fouineuse hors pair, Mikael Blomkvist, cass? par un proc?s en diffamation qu'il vient de perdre, se plonge sans espoir dans ...
Un cadavre, horriblement mutil?, suspendu entre ciel et terre dans les montagnes de la r?gion grenobloise. Une tombe, celle d'un petit gar?on, myst?rieusement « visit?e » pendant la nuit, cependant que les dossiers le concernant disparaissaient de son ?cole. Deux ?nigmes, que vont s'attacher ? r?soudre deux flics hors normes : Pierre Ni?mans, policier g?nial, dont les m?thodes peu orthodoxes ont compromis la carri?re. Et Karim Abdouf, l'ancien d?linquant devenu flic, dont la couleur de peau et les dreadlocks suscitent plut?t la d?fiance dans le trou de province o? on l'a nomm?... Les deux affaires vont se rejoindre, et les deux hommes se reconna?tre. Ensemble, ils vont remonter vers le terrifiant secret des rivi?res pourpres. Un secret qui ne nous sera livr? qu'aux derni?res pages de ce thriller exceptionnel, d? ? l'auteur du Vol des cigognes et r?cemment port? ? l'?cran par Mathieu Kassovitz.
From Publishers WeeklyThe latest from the Clark suspense factory has a spunky New Jersey prosecutor, Kerry McGrath, as its heroine in danger. Kerry has taken an interest in a 10-year-old murder case, in which Skip Reardon had been found guilty of slaying his beautiful wife, Suzanne, and has since been pleading his innocence from his jail cell. When Kerry's small daughter, Robin, goes to a New York plastic surgeon after a car crash, it is apparent that Dr. Smith, who was Suzanne's father, is weird. He seems to be fashioning the faces of young women to resemble ...
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge bestseller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend; and a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
Anderson and Beason are both physicists, which gives their latest plenty of scientific authenticity. So if you know the difference between Feynman diagrams and scattering matrices and don't mind two-dimensional characters, this should be your superconducting cup of tea. Nobel-nominated physicist Georg Dumenco is blasted with radiation while working on a project at Fermilab?the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. What appears to be an accident is, of course, not and Dumenco's beautiful, tempestuous doctor, Trish LeCroix, recruits her former lover, Craig Kreident, crack FBI agent and Scientific American subscriber?and protagonist of Virtual Destruction and Fallout?to investigate before Dumenco succumbs. Intrigues from India, radiation sickness, a few gunshots, and a love triangle point up the importance difference between nuanced complexity and confusing complications.
When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan 's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with investigators. Then another woman is found murdered in that same apartment with an extremely valuable book, believed to have been stolen.Alex discovers that the apartment belongs to a member of the wealthy Hunt family, longtime benefactors of the New York Public Library. As Alex, Mike, and Mercer meet each member of the eccentric ...
Ein alternder Pathologe stellt immer h?ufiger falsche Diagnosen und weigert sich dennoch sich auf den Altenteil zur?ckzuziehen. Sein Gegenspieler ist ein junger, dynamischer Chirurg, der nat?rlich am Ende die Oberhand beh?lt.
Intrepid sleuth/reporter Irene Kelly barely has time to recover from the shock of learning that her estranged aunt has been killed before being blindsided by an even bigger surprise – she's the number one suspect! Irene searches for her aunt's son, Travis – a young man who wants nothing to do with Irene or any of the Kelly clan. The seeds of contention sown by family members no longer living are now being reaped by the next generation in ways no one would ever have expected. As deeply buried family skeletons are unearthed, the line between stalker and stalked becomes increasingly blurred, with dangerous consequences for Irene. She casts her lot with Travis, who she believes is the killer's next target, but her efforts to protect him place her squarely in harm's way. Now Irene must dodge not only the arm of the law but also the reach of a killer who appears to want to settle the score of an age-old family grudge.
"The debut of a startling new talent. Here is a story both incandescent and explosive. A seamless blend of modern-day thriller and historical mystery with an ending that left me breathless." – James Rollins***A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died – a ...
Bond is back and he's better than ever… but the 1980's have reached the department as well. Political restraints are squeezing in on the Service. The elite Double-O status, for example, conveying its authority to kill, is being abolished…
It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living, Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most – Drake. But Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness – or so they thought. As Perdido Beach burns, battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council; the Human Crew versus the mutants; and Sam against Drake. And the prophetess Orsay and her companion, Nerezza, are preaching that death will set them all free. As life in the FAYZ becomes more desperate, no one knows who they can trust.
From Publishers WeeklyBeach bum Ned Kelly, a part-time lifeguard, pool guy and errand runner in Palm Beach, Fla., has just scored with beautiful, rich Tess McAuliffe. Life sure is looking up, especially from his days back in chilly South Boston. He's looking forward to another round with Tess, but first he has to help some smalltime hoodlum pals commit a $60-million art heist. It's supposed to be an easy job, but everything goes to hell-the paintings they were after weren't even there-and soon enough his pals are all dead, as is Tess. Ned goes on the run, ...
Lo ?ltimo que Lev Prakenskii recordaba era estar perdido en las procelosas corrientes del oc?ano y ser engullido en la nada de un g?lido remolino junto a la localidad costera de Sea Haven. Con la misma rapidez es salvado milagrosamente por una hermosa desconocida. Pero Lev no recordaba qui?n era… ni por qu? parec?a poseer el violento instinto de un asesino adiestrado. Lo ?nico que sab?a era que tem?a por su vida y por la de su inesperada salvadora.Su nombre era Rikki, una pescadora de erizos de mar en Sea Haven. Siempre hab?a sentido afinidad con el oc?ano y con el seductor influjo de las mareas. Y ahora sent?a esa misma atracci?n por el enigm?tico hombre al que hab?a rescatado. Pero pronto se encontrar?n unidos por algo a?n m?s fuerte y sus tentadores secretos los engullir?n a ambos en un torbellino de embriagadora pasi?n e ineludible peligro.
'It's fascinating to see some of my favourite crime novelists coming together to create a taut, tense thriller; each chapter stands alone as a powerful story, yet they also combine seamlessly into a great read. Genuinely gripping.' – Harlan Coben***With each crime writer picking up the story in their usual locale, each of the authors tell a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. Running through each story is a charm bracelet which brings bad luck wherever it's found. Set in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Georgia to wartime Leeds, the book features stories from contributors such as Peter Robinson (writing about 1940s Leeds), Fidelis Morgan, Lynda La Plante (1970s Britain), Val McDermid (1980s Scotland) and Mark Billingham tackling contemporary London.
Ex-army musketry trainer, Jay Benson and his wife Lucy’s dream of running a shooting school turns sour as the school heads towards certain closure. They need money — quickly, and a lot of it. At the eleventh hour Augusto Savanto, head of a vast corporation in Venezuela, walks into their lives with a proposition they can scarcely refuse — he will pay them $50,000 to turn his son into an expert marksman, in nine days. Desperate for money they accept the challenge but find themselves in a deadly game of ruthless vendettas and vengeful murder.
A neurosurgeon is sexually assaulted, stabbed and left for dead in her office at the labyrinthine Mid-Manhattan Medical Centre. The police designate her Likely to Die. Alexandra Cooper, head of the district's sex crimes unit, assembles a task force to investigate but finds herself hindered at every turn. Not only has her office prosecuted some of the vast hospital's patients and staff before but the building itself compounds the problem. A vast complex encompassing a medical college and the Stuyvesant Psychiatric Centre, the hospital rises over a network of tunnels now occupied by numberless transients who have easy access to the corridors. Strung out with other cases and mired in the investigation personally when even the man she has begun to date, has a connection to the case, Alex must find the killer – before the killer finds her…
