En prenant sa retraite, John Rothstein a plongé dans le désespoir les millions de lecteurs des aventures de Jimmy Gold. Rendu fou de rage par la disparition de son héros favori, Morris Bellamy assassine le vieil écrivain pour s’emparer de sa fortune, mais surtout, de ses précieux carnets de notes. Le bonheur dans le crime ? C’est compter sans les mauvais tours du destin… et la perspicacité du détective Bill Hodges.

Après Misery, King renoue avec un de ses thèmes de prédilection : l’obsession d’un fan. Dans ce formidable roman noir où l’on retrouve les protagonistes de Mr. Mercedes (prix Edgar 2015), il rend un superbe hommage au pouvoir de la fiction, capable de susciter chez le lecteur le meilleur… ou le pire.

STEPHEN KING a écrit plus de 50 romans, autant de best-sellers, et plus de 200 nouvelles. Couronné de nombreux prix littéraires, il est devenu un mythe vivant de la littérature américaine (médaille de la National Book Foundation en 2003 pour sa contribution aux lettres américaines, Grand Master Award en 2007 pour l’ensemble de son œuvre).

Durante su solitaria estancia en el pueblo costero de Roquedal, una traductora, Carmen del Mar Poveda, recibe misteriosas cartas de un desconocido que le declara su intención de matarla. Las cartas son abandonadas en el muro que rodea su casa y el desconocido exige una respuesta. Comienza así un extraño intercambio epistolar, un juego de acertijos y falsas soluciones, de identidades y espejos, en el que, inexorablemente, se imbricarán las oscuras leyendas del pueblo, sus antiquísimas fiestas populares y algunos de sus más enigmáticos habitantes. Escrita en clave lúdica, siguiendo una estructura argumental que recuerda el juego múltiple de las cajas chinas, la novela aborda do manera brillante la idea de la muerte, ese asesino particular que siempre nos acompaña como interlocutor privilegiado de toda la vida, al tiempo que presenta la escritura como metáfora y espejo del destino humano. Estimada señorita. Voy a matarla y usted lo sabe, así que me asombra su silencio. La flor del almendro ya destella de blancura en las ramas, pero no advierto la flor de sus cartas en el muro. Eso no es lo convenido. Yo me tomo en serio mi papel de verdugo: haga lo mismo con el suyo de víctima. Le sugiero, por ejemplo, que se vuelva romántica.

'The face of war is changing. The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore. There's thinking, in some circles, that we need to play by a different set of rules too…'

James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan War, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary.

A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected.

And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche.

Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together.

When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food, the handsome, elusive man next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn’t come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans.

Five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their shared home, and Lily is the prime suspect. But who is Lily Hayes? It depends on who’s asking. As the case takes shape—revealing deceptions, secrets, and suspicious DNA—Lily appears alternately sinister and guileless through the eyes of those around her: the media, her family, the man who loves her and the man who seeks her conviction. With mordant wit and keen emotional insight, Cartwheel offers a prismatic investigation of the ways we decide what to see—and to believe—in one another and ourselves.

In Cartwheel, duBois delivers a novel of propulsive psychological suspense and rare moral nuance. No two readers will agree who Lily is and what happened to her roommate. Cartwheel will keep you guessing until the final page, and its questions about how well we really know ourselves will linger well beyond.

Starred Review

«Карвед Рок. Пригород» – это одноименный челлендж проекта «Текстовые сериалы Валентины Б.», в котором авторы фантазировали на предложенную тему. Что-то не так с этим местом. Если вы попали в Карвед-Рок, то отныне считаетесь пропавшими без вести. Для вас начинается новая жизнь в полупустом городе на побережье океана. Без любимых, родных и близких. Отсюда нельзя выбраться. Содержит нецензурную брань.

The scene is set in Cambridge, with three case histories from the past: A young child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden; An unidentified man in a yellow jumper who marched into an office and slashed a young girl through the throat; and a young woman found by the police sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her husband, an axe buried in his head. Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of these resurrected old crimes. Julia and Amelia Land, long having given up hope of uncovering the truth of what happened to their baby sister, Olivia, suddenly discover her lost toy mouse in the study of their recently-deceased father. Enlisting Jackson's help they embroil him in the complexities of their own jealousies, obsessions and lust. A woman named Shirley needs Jackson to help find her lost niece. Amidst the incessant demands of the Land sisters, Jackson meets solicitor Theo Wyre whose daughter, Laura, was murdered in his office and, now that the police case has been closed, is desperate for Jackson to help him lay Laura's ghost to rest. As he starts his investigations Jackson has the sinister feeling that someone is following him. As he begins to unearth secrets that have remained hidden for many years, he is assailed by his former wife's plan to take his young daughter away to live in New Zealand, and his stalker becomes increasingly malevolent and dangerous. In digging into the past Jackson seems to have unwittingly threatened his own future.This wonderfully crafted, intricately plotted novel is heartbreaking, uplifting, full of suspense and often very funny, and shows Kate Atkinson returning to the literary scene at the height of her powers.

The scene is set in Cambridge, with three case histories from the past: A young child who mysteriously disappeared from a tent in her back garden; An unidentified man in a yellow jumper who marched into an office and slashed a young girl through the throat; and a young woman found by the police sitting in her kitchen next to the body of her husband, an axe buried in his head. Jackson Brodie, a private investigator and former police detective, is quietly contemplating life as a divorced father when he is flung into the midst of these resurrected old crimes. Julia and Amelia Land, long having given up hope of uncovering the truth of what happened to their baby sister, Olivia, suddenly discover her lost toy mouse in the study of their recently-deceased father. Enlisting Jackson's help they embroil him in the complexities of their own jealousies, obsessions and lust. A woman named Shirley needs Jackson to help find her lost niece. Amidst the incessant demands of the Land sisters, Jackson meets solicitor Theo Wyre whose daughter, Laura, was murdered in his office and, now that the police case has been closed, is desperate for Jackson to help him lay Laura's ghost to rest. As he starts his investigations Jackson has the sinister feeling that someone is following him. As he begins to unearth secrets that have remained hidden for many years, he is assailed by his former wife's plan to take his young daughter away to live in New Zealand, and his stalker becomes increasingly malevolent and dangerous. In digging into the past Jackson seems to have unwittingly threatened his own future.This wonderfully crafted, intricately plotted novel is heartbreaking, uplifting, full of suspense and often very funny, and shows Kate Atkinson returning to the literary scene at the height of her powers.

For Nina Reilly, the mountain town of Lake Tahoe is home. It's where she forged a successful career as a tough, resourceful attorney – and raised her teenage son, Bob, alone. Back from a stint in Monterey, where her love life took a tumble, Nina has returned to her Tahoe law office with her old friends Sandy Whitefeather and Sandy 's son, Wish. It isn't long before she has a new client whose wife was shot and killed during a casino-district robbery two years before. The police have no suspects, and the robbery victims, three students, lied about their identities and are hiding outside California and the reach of the court.

Two of the witnesses have fled to a village not far from the home of Bob's father, Kurt Scott, in Germany. As Nina tries to unravel the mystery of one violent Tahoe night, a harrowing journey begins – one that takes her from the dark underworld of Tahoe's casinos to the halls of a prestigious East Coast university to Europe and an emotional reunion with Kurt. As old feelings are rekindled, Nina's case turns violent. Everyone has something to hide – the brilliant but unstable mathematics student who has made an astonishing discovery, the owner of a motel where the shooting took place, and the shooter, who has turned the whole case into a gigantic lie.

In 1953 Pierce Duncan leaves college as an innocent and sets off to see America. His road trip will take him from the savagery of a Georgia chain gang to a wild ride through Texas to the darkest side of the Las Vegas fight game — and, finally, to San Francisco, the far end of the world. Along the backstreets and freight lines Dunc will meet beautiful women, dangerous men, and murder. And in California, home of the lost and the outcast, he will join up with the dynamic head of a private investigation agency. Here he will learn everything about being a man — and about brutal betrayal.

Joe Gores has written a violence-marked love letter to a lost time in America, and a San Francisco roiling with the unexpected. With Dunc’s mind teeming with the cadences of Hemingway and Joyce. CASES is also an ode to the art of writing itself: writing as vivid as a lightning storm over a lonely highway, as unforgettable as a first kiss, as haunting as a dead woman’s eyes.

Primera hora de la mañana. La llamada a casa del comisario Roy Grace para informar sobre el hallazgo del cadáver de una mujer en un macabro escenario desata en el sofocante agosto de Brighton un despliegue policial que se irá viendo incrementado con la aparición de más víctimas. Con la ayuda del sargento Glenn Branson y del resto de su equipo, Grace deberá hacer frente al torbellino de pesquisas e interrogatorios agotadores, atormentado por la sombra de su esposa desaparecida, Sandy, que al parecer ha sido vista en Munich tras nueve años de ausencia.

El lujo, la belleza y el dinero que decorara el mundo de las víctimas se van desdibujando progresivamente en medio de la sangre y la sospecha. Azuzada por la falta de noticias en verano, la prensa clava sus fauces en el caso y Roy Grace se convierte en el punto de mira de una ciudad plagada de turistas. Ante la presión de los medios de comunicación y el creciente nerviosismo de los ciudadanos, la policía investiga a contrarreloj los macabros asesinatos cuyas pistas van cercando casi sin respiro a un único sospechoso. Pero ¿cómo puede un hombre matar a su víctima y encontrarse al mismo tiempo a noventa kilómetros de distancia?

In Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), he took a job digging up a shallow grave. It turned out badly. In Single White Psychopath Seeks Same, he took a job as a bodyguard at a séance. It turned out worse. But now, meet the new, improved Andrew Mayhem. He has a real job. He's a better father and husband. And he's vowed to quit accepting money from strange women in coffee shops to perform tasks that go terribly, terribly wrong. This time he's just taking a relaxing camping trip with his family and best friend. No shortcuts. The gas tank is full. The sinister warning of the crazy old man is taken seriously. Unfortunately, when you're Andrew Mayhem, you just can't help being attacked by a group of savage killers bent on inflicting ghastly torture and bringing horrific death. Relentlessly pursued through a booby-trapped forest, it's one crisis after another as Andrew fights to protect his family, loses a body part or two, and faces the single darkest moment of his entire life. Action-packed, twisted, and completely outrageous, Casket For Sale (Only Used Once) is the funniest and scariest Andrew Mayhem adventure yet!

«Caso cerrado, de Robert Rotenberg, es uno de los mejores libros que he leído en años. Lo devoré en dos sentadas. Rotenberg escribe con aplomo y desenvoltura. Tiene una serie de personajes que bien pueden convertirse en clásicos. Incluso posee sentido del humor. Es una de esas novelas en las que basta con leer el primer capítulo para quedarse enganchado. Si Caso cerrado no gana un premio Edgar, cambio mi estilográfica por una caña de pescar.» – DOUGLAS PRESTON

«Hoy podemos vivir Venecia a través de Donna León, Edimburgo a través de lan Rankin, Los Ángeles a través de Michael Connelly. Toronto, una de las ciudades hasta ahora sin padre literario, lo viviremos a través de Robert Rotenberg.» – Times Literary Supplement

«Caso cerrado de Robert Rotenberg posee todo lo que debe tener una intriga legal, y más: personajes absolutamente atractivos; una trama tensa y creíble; un ritmo casi extenuante y, por encima de todo, una de las mejores prosas que he leído en años. Este libro tiene escrita la palabra “ganador" por todas partes.» – NELSON DEMILLE

«Ágil, completa y llena de un cautivador reparto de personajes. Caso cerrado capta la vibración y el alma de Toronto.» – KATHY REICHS

«Asombrosa… y aún más si se considera que es la primera novela del autor. Una trama como una telaraña firmemente urdida y una rica gama de personajes convierte esta obra en una lectura absorbente. Y de particular interés es el marco; Robert Rotenberg hace por Toronto lo que lan Rankin hace por Edimburgo.» – JEFFREY DEAVER

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"En la tradición de los abogados defensores convertidos en escritores, como Scott Turow y John Grisham, el letrado Robert Rotenberg debuta en la novela con esta intriga legal, a la que aporta su rico conocimiento forense. Debería haber sido un caso visto y no visto. El principal presentador de radio del Canadá, Kevin Brace, ha confesado que ha dado muerte a su joven esposa. Ha salido a la puerta de su apartamento de lujo con las manos cubiertas de sangre y le ha dicho al repartidor de prensa: «La he matado». El cadáver de su mujer yace en la bañera con una herida mortal de cuchillo justo debajo del esternón. Ahora, sólo debería quedar el procedimiento legal: documentar la escena del crimen, llevar el caso a juicio y se acabó. El problema es que, después de musitar esas palabras incriminadoras, Brace se niega a hablar con nadie, ni siquiera con su propia abogada. Con el descubrimiento de que la víctima era una alcohólica autodestructiva, la aparición de unas extrañas huellas dactilares en la escena del crimen y un revelador interrogatorio judicial, el caso, aparentemente sencillo, empieza a adquirir todas las complejidades de un juicio por asesinato ardorosamente disputado. Firmemente enraizada en Toronto, desde la antigua prisión del Don hasta el depósito de cadáveres o los umbríos corredores de la histórica sala de justicia del Ayuntamiento Viejo, Caso cerrado nos conduce en una visita fascinante a una ciudad tan vital y excitante como el mosaico abigarrado que puebla el relato de Rotenberg. Están Awotwe Amankwah, el único periodista negro que cubre el crimen; el juez Jonathan Summers, un ex capitán de la Marina que dirige su tribunal como si todavía estuviera en el puente de mando; Edna Wingate, una «esposa de guerra» británica de ochenta y tres años fervorosa practicante del yoga con calor, y Daniel Kennicott, ex abogado de un gran bufete que se hizo policía después de que su hermano fuese asesinado y la investigación terminara en un callejón sin salida.

In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heatwave, a drought exposed her remains — bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime.

No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone cold case — the toughest of those he has been challenged to solve.

Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding Lucie’s murder, he opens a Pandora’s box that not only raises old ghosts but endangers his entire family.

Amazon.com Review

That monstrous villain Gary Soneji is back in Cat & Mouse, the fourth book in James Patterson's series about Alex Cross, a police forensic psychologist, but he's not alone. In seeming support of the premise that you can never have too much of a bad thing, Patterson has thrown a second serial killer into the mix: Mr. Smith, a mysterious killer terrorizing Europe while Soneji practices his own brand of evil along the Eastern Seaboard. With two killers to track, Cross has his hands full-and Patterson has another hit.

From Library Journal

Fans of Patterson's Alex Cross series will be delighted with this latest installment. Reappearing is Christine Johnson, seen in an earlier Cross novel, Jack Jill (LJ 8/96) and the principal at his children's school, and Cross has fallen in love with her. Gary Soneji, the creepy kidnapper and murderer from another Cross book, has broken out of jail and embarked on a new killing spree, again taunting Cross that he can't stop him. And one of his intended targets is Cross and his family. If that isn't enough, there's a new serial killer whose murders are so inhuman that the news media are suggesting that he's an alien from another planet. All story lines connect in this thriller, whose driving plot will distract you from thinking about its implausibilities and keep you turning pages to the last, when you'll find yourself impatiently awaiting the arrival of the next Cross novel.

Amazon.com Review

That monstrous villain Gary Soneji is back in Cat & Mouse, the fourth book in James Patterson's series about Alex Cross, a police forensic psychologist, but he's not alone. In seeming support of the premise that you can never have too much of a bad thing, Patterson has thrown a second serial killer into the mix: Mr. Smith, a mysterious killer terrorizing Europe while Soneji practices his own brand of evil along the Eastern Seaboard. With two killers to track, Cross has his hands full-and Patterson has another hit.

From Library Journal

Fans of Patterson's Alex Cross series will be delighted with this latest installment. Reappearing is Christine Johnson, seen in an earlier Cross novel, Jack Jill (LJ 8/96) and the principal at his children's school, and Cross has fallen in love with her. Gary Soneji, the creepy kidnapper and murderer from another Cross book, has broken out of jail and embarked on a new killing spree, again taunting Cross that he can't stop him. And one of his intended targets is Cross and his family. If that isn't enough, there's a new serial killer whose murders are so inhuman that the news media are suggesting that he's an alien from another planet. All story lines connect in this thriller, whose driving plot will distract you from thinking about its implausibilities and keep you turning pages to the last, when you'll find yourself impatiently awaiting the arrival of the next Cross novel.