« De temps à autre apparaît un auteur amoureux de son art, du langage écrit et des grands mystères qui résident de l'autre côté du monde physique. Il y avait William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy ou Annie Proulx. Vous pouvez maintenant ajouter Michael Farris Smith à la liste. »James Lee BurkeUne femme marche seule avec une petite fille sur une route de Louisiane. Elle n'a nulle part où aller. Partie sans rien quelques années plus tôt de la ville où elle a grandi, elle revient tout aussi démunie. Elle pense avoir connu le pire. Elle se trompe.Russel a lui aussi quitté sa ville natale, onze ans plus tôt. Pour une peine de prison qui vient tout juste d'arriver à son terme. Il retourne chez lui en pensant avoir réglé sa dette. C'est sans compter sur le désir de vengeance de ceux qui l'attendent.Dans les paysages désolés de la campagne américaine, un meurtre va réunir ces âmes perdues, dont les vies vont bientôt ne plus tenir qu'à un fil.Michael Farris Smith possède un style et un talent d'évocation totalement singuliers qui vont droit au cœur du lecteur. Avec ces personnages qui s'accrochent à la vie envers et contre tout, il nous offre un magnifique roman sur la condition humaine.Michael Farris Smith vit à Oxford, Mississippi. Après Une pluie sans fin (Super 8 éditions, 2015), Nulle part sur la terre est son deuxième roman.

Former U.S. marine and Harvard Business School graduate Nicholas Neumann seems to have it all: a dream job, a beautiful fiancée, a future bright with promise. But beneath the dazzling veneer of this golden boy is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father seventeen years before. And when new evidence implicates the venerable United Swiss Bank in the crime, Nick finds himself willing to do whatever it takes to uncover the truth. Leaving behind everything he holds dear, Nick takes a job in Zurich with the United Swiss Bank, and is soon plunged into a world where everything — loyalty, power, even life and death — can be bought and sold for the right price. As the secrets of the venerable bank are laid bare, suddenly Nick knows far too much — about the offer he never should have accepted, about the money he never should have handled, about the woman he never should have loved.

Former US Marine and Harvard Business School graduate Nicholas Neumann seems to have it all: a dream job, a beautiful fiancee, a future bright with promise. But beneath the dazzling veneer is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father 18 years before.

NYPD Red is the elite, highly trained task force assigned to protect the rich, the famous, and the connected. And Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald-the woman who broke his heart at the police academy-are the best of the best, brilliant and tireless investigators who will stop at nothing to deliver justice.

Zach and Kylie’s New Year’s celebrations are cut short when they’re called to the home of billionaire businessman Hunter Alden, Jr. after he makes a grisly discovery in his townhouse garage. When Alden’s teenage son goes missing soon afterwards, and his father seems oddly reluctant to find him, Zach and Kylie find themselves in the middle of a chilling conspiracy that threatens everyone in its wake-especially their city’s most powerful citizens.

NYPD Red 3 is the next sensational novel in James Patterson’s explosive new series, a thriller that goes behind the closed doors of New York high society and into the depths of depravity.

A jewel heist. A murdered actress. A killer case for NYPD Red.

In a city where crime never sleeps, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in when a case involves the rich, famous and connected. Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald are the best of the best — brilliant and tireless investigators who will stop at nothing to catch a criminal, even if it means antagonising the same powerful people they’re supposed to be helping.

When a glitzy movie premiere is the scene of a shocking murder and high-stakes robbery, NYPD Red gets the call. In a hunt that takes Zach and Kylie from celebrity penthouses to the depths of Manhattan’s criminal underworld, they have to find the cold-blooded killer — before he strikes again.

At the wedding of the century, a brazen kidnapper steals the star of the show...

Erin Easton's wedding in one of New York's biggest venues may have a TV crew documenting every extravagant detail, but when the bride disappears from the reception, it's no diva turn. Her dressing room is empty except for a blood-spattered wedding dress.

Detective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red, already at the scene as a plus-one, brings in her partner, Detective Zach Jordan, to search for the missing bride. Unable to rule anything out, every A-list celebrity on the guest list has to be considered either a target of suspicion . . . or a target.

Tras la aparición de sus ensayos literarios, reunidos bajo el título de La literatura en la construcción de la ciudad democrática (Crítica), simultáneamente, el padre del más popular de los detectives españoles de ficción incide en O César o nada en otra novela de género: la histórica. Tiene también sus reglas y limitaciones y permite suponer en el que la emprende un amplio conocimiento histórico del período elegido. No se trata, en este caso, de la España de la inmediata postguerra (que sería también ya novela histórica y que Vázquez Montalbán utilizó en otras producciones marginales a la serie de Carvalho). En esta ocasión, la empresa hubo de resultarle mucho más difícil y compleja, porque se trata de narrar las intrigas de una Roma renacentista dominada por la familia valenciana de los Borgia. Los personajes que protagonizan la historia son complejos héroes que hemos conocido a través de la historia, la literatura y el arte.Ninguno de los pecados de la época están ausentes: la simonía (la compra del papado por parte de Rodrigo Borja), los crímenes de estado, las traiciones reales y el incesto atribuido a Lucrecia Borgia («conseguiría ser a la vez hija, esposa y nuera de su padre, según consta en los libelos de la estatua de Pasquino»). Permanece incólume el valor que los Borgia atribuyen a los lazos familiares. Vázquez Montalbán, en la intimidad, les hace hablar a ratos en valenciano. Reproduce también poemas en italiano y abundantes citas latinas clásicas y bíblicas. La corte se lamenta de la invasión de los `catalanes`. Pero bajo el rico anecdotario que imprime interés a la narración subyacen conceptos políticos básicos: la ciudad-estado frente al Estado, el papel temporal del Papado, la necesidad de una Reforma que culminará, tras la muerte de César, en uno de sus descendientes, quien seguirá las huellas de San Ignacio de Loyola.

Amazon.com ReviewWise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton's gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a "storage space scavenger" (someone who buys the contents of defaulted storage units) leads Kinsey to a box of old papers and personal effects that her ex-husband, Mickey Magruder, left behind. Inside, she finds a 15-year-old unsent letter from a bartender that, among other things, reveals her former hubby was having an affair. The letter also contains details about the murder of a transient-a crime for which Mickey was blamed. Although never convicted, Mickey was ruined-losing his job, wife, and friends. But 15 years later, Kinsey realizes that foul play may have been involved in the murder, a deadly temptation for her.Die-hard fans will especially enjoy Kinsey's self-disclosure-something she's infamous for not doing-about her childhood, the fate of her parents, and the randy details of her first marriage. A very vulnerable and interesting side to Kinsey's character is also revealed when her obsessive-compulsive fact-finding bent is mixed up with matters of the heart.A fast, fun read, O Is for Outlaw is packed with Grafton's clear, colorful imagery and signature metaphors: "Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered, but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed."

BILLY ALFRETH IS SERVING FIVE YEARS as an inmate at Dellacotte Young Offenders Institute, in the north of England. Billy has memories of being attacked by three men, but CCTV footage doesn’t bear out his account and he is locked up for stabbing one man. Billy’s world overlaps with that of Ronald Dott, a serial rapist, who claims to know Billy from when he was a child, only that is impossible. And then there is Kate Thistle, ostensibly at Dellacotte to study prison slang, but inordinately interested in both Dott and Billy. As strange events occur and his reality begins to unravel, Billy learns of the Oasis, and a prison ship, and of a desert town called Hospital, where time works in mysterious ways. Dott tells Billy of their terrible entwined histories… whether or not Billy wants to be convinced of what he cannot understand.“I experienced an acute, often surreal, sense of an offender’s pathology, with all its traps, humour and contradictions. O My Days is a tour de force of powerful writing. It’s demanding, gruelling yet always honest, insightful and finally moving. It explores areas that serious fiction rarely travels to. A quite remarkable novel.”Alan Price, author of Outfoxing Hyenas“This is a writer who has been there, viewed with compassion, and reported back. There is a new mythos here, something that feels ancient and sand-blasted and unfathomable, but it is revealed within the most modern of contexts. Highly recommended.”Paul Meloy, author of Islington Crocodiles

"A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia." – Karin Slaughter***A complex conspiracy involving the writing of a book drives Lavender's compelling debut, a thriller that will strike some as a mix of John Fowles's The Magus and Stephen King's The Shining. At Indiana's Winchester University, three students-Brian House, Dennis Flaherty and Mary Butler-are taking Logic and Reasoning 204, taught by enigmatic Professor Williams. They quickly learn this is a course like no other. Their single assignment is to find a missing 18-year-old girl, Polly, in six weeks time-or else, Williams asserts, she will be murdered. Is this merely an academic exercise? As Williams produces clues, including photographs of Polly and her associates, the students begin to wonder where homework ends and actual homicide begins. Together with Brian and Dennis, Mary ventures off campus in search of Polly into a world of crumbling towns, decrepit trailers and hints at crimes old and new. A rapid-fire plot offsets thin characterization, though the conspiracy becomes so all-encompassing, so elaborate, that readers may feel a bit like Mary when baffled by her quest: This is what she felt like: led, played, not in control of anything she did.

Minęło sześć lat od czasu, kiedy Myron po raz ostatni bawił się w detektywa. U boku nowej dziewczyny – Ali Wilder – prowadzi spokojne i uporządkowane życie, zaś jego psychopatyczny przyjaciel Win, nie musi, jak dawniej, nieustannie ratować mu życia. Ale to, co dobre, dobiega właśnie końca… Jakiś czasu temu Myron wymógł na dwóch nastoletnich dziewczynach, Aimee i Erin, wiążącą obietnicę – w razie jakichkolwiek kłopotów, zwrócą się do niego o pomoc. Kilka dni później telefon dzwoni – o drugiej w nocy! Spełniając swoje przyrzeczenie, Myron zabiera nastolatkę z Manhattanu i odwozi do domu jej przyjaciółki w New Jersey. Następnego dnia rodzice Aimee odkrywaj ą zniknięcie córki. Morderstwo, czy ucieczka z domu? Myron był ostatnią osobą, która ją widziała? automatycznie staje się głównym podejrzanym…

Patty Bigelow pensaba que por fin había conseguido enderezar su vida, pero de repente, su rebelde hermana Leila abandona a su hija, Tanya, en la puerta de su casa. Tía y sobrina aprenden con dificultad a vivir juntas con la ayuda profesional del doctor Alex Delaware, psiquiatra. Ahora, quince años después, Tanya acude de nuevo a la consulta de Alex porque la única madre que ha tenido, Patty Bigelow, ha fallecido dejando a la joven un extraño legado: le confesó, en su lecho de muerte, haber matado a un hombre años atrás. Este acto de barbarie abrirá inevitablemente un túnel al pasado en el que los secretos, junto con los cadáveres, han sido profundamente enterrados.

Where there is life there is devotion. Where there is death there is obsession. Patty Bigelow thought she’d finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on her doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware’s counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex’s office, a self-possessed Harvard student, about to enter graduate school in clinical psychology. Patty – the only real mother she's ever known – has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex’s help…

Anita Blake, vampire hunter, has dealt with — and destroyed — a lot of monsters, but her old mentor, Edward, may be worse than any of them. Edward's got problems: a malevolent force is mutilating the citizens of Albuquerque. If he is to stop it he'll need all of Anita's firepower and cunning.

**Fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case in the remarkable new novel from #1** New York Times **-bestselling author John Sandford.**

An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed.

They're federal officers killed on the job, which means the case is the FBI's turf. When the FBI's investigation stalls out, they call in Lucas Davenport. And when his case turns lethal, Davenport will need to bring in every asset he can claim, including a detective with a fundamentally criminal mind: Virgil Flowers. **

**Review**

“Entertaining. . . Fans will enjoy seeing the two old buddies and their cohorts wading into dangerous [sic] wasters.”— *Publishers Weekly*

### **About the Author**

**John Sandford** is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of twenty-nine Prey novels; four Kidd novels; twelve Virgil Flowers novels; three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three other books.

Durante los primeros años de incertidumbre del proceso de paz en Irlanda del Norte, tres ataques terroristas simultáneos en Belfast, Dublin y Londes rompen la esperanza de que el baño de sangre por fin se haya acabado. Los responsables son un nuevo grupo terrorista denominado la Brigada por la Libertad del Ulster. Y tienen un único objetivo: destruir el proceso de paz. Michael Osbourne, el héroe de La Marca del Asesino, ha abandonado la CIA, amargado y desilusionado. Pero cuando el Presidente de los EEUU escoge a su suegro para ser el próximo embajador en Gran Bretaña, Osbourne es arrastrado a la batalla contra algunos de los más implacables y violentos terroristas.

Flagg, jeden z największych żyjących magów, znał wszystkie zabójcze substancje, a każda z nich była straszniejsza od poprzedniej. Najgorszą z nich trzymał z dala od pozostałych. W jego gabinecie znajdowało się biurko, a każda z szuflad była zamknięta na klucz. Jedna z nich miała potrójny zamek. Wewnątrz leżało pudełko rzeźbione w magiczne symbole i runy. A w środku leżał Smoczy Piasek, na który nie ma lekarstwa. Pochodził z pustyni Grenh. Do Grenh można zbliżyć się tylko wtedy, gdy nie wieje wiatr. Albowiem wystarczy raz odetchnąć oparami, by zginąć. Ale nie natychmiast. Dopiero po paru dniach płuca rozżarzą się, skóra zacznie dymić, a całe ciało skurczy się niczym ciało mumii. Po czym człowiek padnie nieżywy z włosami w płomieniach."Flagg w ciemnościach, niewidziany przez nikogo, zaczął się śmiać. W klatce wiszącej na długich czarnych kajdankach obudziła się dwugłowa papuga.– Śmierć! – wrzasnęła jedna z głów.– Mord! – krzyknęła druga".