French Thrillers

When Ellen and Sue discover that a demon is attached to Tanya, the three friends fly to New Orleans to enlist the help of a Voodoo high priestess. Soon they learn that Tanya's life depends on them finding and consecrating the remains of a Devil Child, cared for by Delphine LaLaurie and Marie Laveau. The key to finding the remains is hidden in a secret diary buried somewhere in a vacant Creole mansion in the French Quarter. It's time for the three friends to renovate and solve another mystery and hopefully live to tell the tale.

The first in a series of anthologies devoted to the Lovecraftian gods, Ordo ab Chao follows the highly successful The Gods of HP Lovecraft (published in 2015 by JournalStone Publishing). We begin our series with the primal origins and the god Azathoth, who represents primordial chaos in the Lovecraftian Mythos.

Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place, is still on the Murder Squad, but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going well - but the rest of her working life isn't. Antoinette doesn't play well with others, and there's a vicious running campaign in the squad to get rid of her.

Molly Wynters has moved back to her small hometown to care for her father, recently felled by a stroke and no longer able to communicate. She is ready to make a fresh start with her son after her divorce, but is haunted by both old events and new realities in her childhood home. What Molly recalls of her young life with her father is full of love and care, even though a violent trauma defined her childhood: when she was a young girl, she witnessed her mother’s murder, and her testimony–“There was a man downstairs”–sent a teenager to prison.

Quand on bascule dans la folie, il est souvent trop tard ! Unité pour malades difficiles de Chambly. Un nouveau patient est accueilli. Délirant, sans papiers, inapte à la garde à vue, celui-ci a poussé sans raison un passager sur les rails et prétend " fuir des vers ". Seine-Saint-Denis, à cinquante kilomètres de là. Sharko et son équipe découvrent le corps d'un quinquagénaire sauvagement assassiné dans son lit. Chez lui, aucune empreinte digitale ni trace d'ADN, pas même les siennes. Qui sont ces deux hommes ? Quelles sont leurs histoires ?

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.

A man on the run, a woman on the line, and a train coming fast... The most wanted man in Britain jumps from a train in Northern France. Still fresh to a life on the run, James Stone can't risk being caught. Not until his name is clear. A young woman wakes on the tracks, unable to move, with no idea why she is there. The train is fast approaching, and the impact will be devastating. Impact is the fifth book in the James Stone thriller series, and sees journalist-turned-fugitive, James Stone on the run in Northern France. A suspected suicide might just be the thing to bring him back from the ...

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for 15 years, with not so much as a speeding ticket since. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father, Buddy Lee, was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed that his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though...and he wants to know who killed his boy.

Une macabre découverte secoue Stockholm : un tas d'ossements humains est retrouvé dans le métro, et le squelette pourrait bien appartenir à un financier de renom. Lorsque d'autres restes humains sont retrouvés dans les entrailles de la ville et que le ministre de la Justice disparaît, l'enquête bascule dans une course contre la montre. Un décompte de quatorze jours est amorcé. Qui manipule les fils de la terreur pour viser les plus hautes sphères du pouvoir ? La détective Mina Dabri doit une nouvelle fois compter sur l'aide du mentaliste Vincent Walder.

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.

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.

En pleine tempête de neige historique, alors qu’un évènement tragique entraine la paralysie d’une partie de la ville de Montréal, le reporter Michel Duquesne se retrouve malgré lui aux premières loges d’une affaire énigmatique. Son intuition le pousse à la creuser, ce qui le plonge au cœur de l’industrie pharmaceutique, où il découvrira à quel point la corruption sévit. Les ramifications de cette nouvelle enquête le mèneront dans l’antichambre du pouvoir politique, à Québec et à Ottawa. Le premier ministre serait-il mêlé à tout cela ?

Une nouvelle enquête de Bernie Gunther. Quand, en septembre 1941, Bernie Gunther revient du front russe, la capitale du Reich a bien changé. Pénurie, rationnement, couvre-feu, crimes... Berlin rime avec misère et terreur. La découverte d’un cadavre sur une voie de chemin de fer puis l’agression d’une jeune femme précipitent Bernie, affecté au département des homicides de la sinistre Kripo, dans de nouvelles enquêtes criminelles.

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.

"Une œuvre pas belle à voir" : telle est la façon dont la scène de crime a été décrite à la capitaine Isabelle Le Peletier avant son arrivée sur les lieux. Mais rien n’aurait pu la préparer à une telle horreur. Dans un grand appartement parisien, vide de tout meuble, le corps d’un homme l’attend assis sur une chaise, nu et atrocement mutilé. Sur son avant-bras, un étrange tatouage. Le clou du spectacle : un tableau de Van Gogh disparu depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale est posé à côté du cadavre.

Writer, poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 and became a literary sensation in 1845 with the publication of his poem "The Raven," considered a great American literary work and one of the best of Poe's career.

A night flight from Istanbul bound for Paris, filled with 169 holiday travelers, plummets into the Swiss Alps. The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl - thrown from the plane onto the snowy mountainside before fire rages through the aircraft. But two infants were on board. Is the miracle baby Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Both families step forward to claim the child - one poor, one powerful, wealthy, and dangerous.

"Avec Mathilde, jamais une balle plus haute que l'autre, du travail propre et sans bavures. Ce soir est une exception. Une fantaisie. Elle aurait pu agir de plus loin, faire moins de dégâts, et ne tirer qu'une seule balle, bien sûr." Dans ce réjouissant jeu de massacre où l'on tue tous les affreux, Pierre Lemaitre joue en virtuose de sa plume caustique. Avec cette œuvre de jeunesse inédite, il fait cadeau à ses lecteurs d'un roman noir et subversif qui marque ses adieux au genre. Dialogues cinglants, portraits saisissants, scénario impitoyable : du pur Pierre Lemaitre.

Bad things happen to those who lurk in the shadows In a last-ditch attempt to secure passage out of Europe, James Stone finds himself on the coast of France, with the only thing standing between him and a trip back to England is a quiet evening dockyard, And a dead body. What starts as a straightforward task quickly descends into a long and bloody night. With more attention turning his way, Stone knows the clock is ticking on his freedom. He could walk away, but doing so will seal the terrible fate of an innocent family searching for a second chance, and let the monsters who stole ...

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. They’re coming to get rich, but what they bring is trouble. Waiting for them is Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective who moved to rural Ireland looking for some peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with tearaway teenager Trey Reddy. As the two men circle the townland with talk of a scheme to find gold in the mountainside, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey.