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Le nouveau roman dans les coulisses de la géopolitique mondiale, par Alain Bauer. De nos jours, entre Beijing, Taïpeh et Reykjavik. Cela fait longtemps que l'immense République Populaire de Chine menace régulièrement d'envahir la minuscule mais ultra industrieuse Formose, et il ne s'est toujours rien passé. Seulement aujourd'hui, un général ambitieux veut profiter de l'effritement du " parapluie " américain pour offrir à Xi Jinping le cadeau tellement convoité qu'est cette petite île.

It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who’s in trouble, kidnap and death are hot on their heels once more. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code, and will stop at nothing to get it. Plunged back into action once more, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?

The bodies of three teenage girls are found in central Minnesota—each with her mouth fixed in a ghoulish grin, smiling at a deadly joke no one can hear. But authorities eventually close and forget the curious case, dubbed the Laughing Dead. Decades later, cold case agent Evangeline “Van” Reed is called to the scene of a crime where the victim wears that same horror-movie smile. But this time someone seems to be sending a message: Van’s police ID has turned up at the scene, making her the prime suspect.

Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. Now terminally ill, he has nothing left to lose. An expat for many years, Max returns to Europe one last time to settle an old debt with his estranged Dutch wife, Margrit, and to attend the Paris funeral of his friend, rival, and mentor Harry Ames, a character loosely modelled on Richard Wright.

Der hochspannende achte Kriminalroman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Robert Galbraith, dem Pseudonym von J. K. Rowling! "Mit Cormoran ‹Strike und Robin Ellacott hat Galbraith/Rowling ein ungemein schillerndes und vielschichtiges Ermittlerduo kreiert. Die Dialoge der beiden sind pointiert, ohne bemüht witzig zu sein, die Charaktere stimmig entwickelt." Hamburger Abendblatt.

It's the ultimate haunted house challenge. A crumbling stone mansion nestled in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, it may be the best-kept secret in Europe—a little-known attraction featuring nine escape rooms to explore, nine puzzles to solve, and a large cash prize for anyone who makes it to the end. There's just one catch: no one makes it to the end of The No-End House . . . When Joe Hadfield hears about the house from a pair of backpackers, he's intrigued but not interested. He's trying to escape a nightmare of his own.

Working as a cop in Boston's narcotics unit has always been Courtland Wilder's priority, leaving little time to get attached to someone. When a tip about a drug ring tied to a local strip club comes in, Court goes undercover as a bouncer to take down the operation. It doesn't take long for his investigation to hit a dead end, so he jumps at the chance to get closer to his mark by pursuing the handsome brother of his target's girlfriend.

My family, the Whitlows, are basically the supernatural Corleones of the Carolinas. We run a magical safe house disguised as a quaint inn, backed by more old money than sense. My sisters are more likely to start an apocalypse than prevent one—Alafair's never met a margarita she didn't like, and if Emmery had to choose between her spellbook and her heels, I'm pretty sure the stiletto sling-backs would win. So who gets stuck with the messes? That would be me, Tula Whitlow, because I'm competent enough to be useful and way too lazy to argue.

When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime show Infamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case—the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford—he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims. Two months later, a dog walker discovers a woman’s body, bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Forensic evidence links the corpse to the disappearance of that same child.

Ten years have passed, and Ren Taylor is back at square one, having accepted a job at her old high school. She’d hoped to make peace with the past but now she’s thrust back into it: her murdered teenage sister is still immortalized in town, and Ren can’t stop seeing her wherever she goes. She’s dogged by the scandal that ruined her childhood and killed her sister. Then Ren meets physics teacher Bryson Lewis. Handsome and charismatic, all the other teachers and students seem to fall at his feet. But Ren knows men like him–she knows they can’t be trusted.

Tasked with retrieving a kidnapped diplomat, Claudia expects nothing more than another mission for Haven's supernatural police force. In New York's underbelly, she discovers a network of false Chimera suits and vampire-targeting drugs that threatens to shatter the fragile peace between humans and vampires. Her only ally is Sabine Moros, a mysterious vampire whose silver-streaked hair and ancient eyes hint at blood-soaked secrets that could either save Haven—or destroy it.

Overnight, my casual hookup turns into a psycho who leaves me battered and bruised. With no money, my nightmare gets worse when he burns my home and everything I own to the ground. So, I do what any scared, self-respecting Omega does, and run. Hiding in a new city with a fresh approach to staying alive, I keep my head down until I get caught in a crossfire. When I choose to play Good Samaritan to one man over the other, I stumble into their world.

Claudia Richelieu lives a double life. Shadow Bane trainee by day, Chimera operative by night. Her mission to protect Haven's citizens keeps her busy—until her mentor Sabine Moros vanishes. Defying a direct order from Haven's ruler to mount a rescue mission, her search leads her to Scotland, where she uncovers a deadly conspiracy between two rival groups—the Shadow Banes and the Nightshades.

It would take a perfect plan to collect a billion-dollar ransom. So here’s the plan. Five innocent people. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment in time.

Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb. But when a lawyer named Piers—whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals—barges into her life, Julia decides to put the solitary life she has painstakingly created at risk as she can’t walk away from helping Piers and Elli, nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle.

I spend my days locked in a black-market nightmare, held captive by a twisted mastermind who considers me his prized possession. My only form of human contact is with the victims in the next room, each of whom disappears faster than the last. Everyone leaves… except me. Then I hear him—Isaac. Brash, elusive, and haunted, he isn't anyone's idea of a hero. Separated by a wall, our faces hidden, his voice cuts through the darkness, becoming my only hope. He's driven by vengeance, bearing scars as dark as my own. Despite his rough edges, a fragile bond forms between us—a lifeline.

As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle—“Lord Doyle” to his fellow players—descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking refuge in a series of louche and dimly lit hotels, he watches his fortune rise and fall as the cards decide his fate.

Late-summer wildfires are a fact of life in Montana. But as an inferno nears Wellington, Matthew Redd gets the unusual call that a team of smoke jumpers has suddenly gone dark. As head of the county’s fledgling search and rescue team, Redd drops into the fire zone and finds way more than he bargained for: a killer has taken out the smoke jumper team along with two civilians, and only a terrified young boy is left as witness. Redd and little Jack narrowly escape the raging fire, and Redd calls in Gavin Kline, now acting director of the FBI, to investigate the bigger forces at play.

As a Chimera agent for Haven's most powerful arbiter, Claudia Richelieu is used to dangerous missions. Her training to become a legendary Shadow Bane draws unwanted attention, changing everything. A simple assignment in Los Angeles turns deadly when a charismatic vampire actor reveals his true colors. Claudia is caught in a web of deception where ancient feuds between the Shadow Banes and a mysterious group called the Nightshades threaten everything she holds dear.

The Rowling sisters have always been people you can understand – with partners and children, homes and dreams. And secrets, the sisters have those too. But when Kate, the eldest, finally returns to buy her late grandfather’s home, the dark things each sister has kept buried soon rise to the surface. Is Kate having unexplained visions tied to a past she can hardly recall? Is Aurora, the married mother of two, finally acting out in the face of her sisters’ indiscretions? Is Peggy, the youngest and a recovering addict, able to move on from the memories that haunt her?