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"Louise ? Quelle chance vous avez d'être tombés sur elle. Elle a été comme une seconde mère pour mes garçons. Ça a été un vrai crève-cœur quand nous avons dû nous en séparer. Pour tout vous dire, à l'époque, j'ai même songé à faire un troisième enfant pour pouvoir la garder." Lorsque Myriam décide malgré les réticences de son mari de reprendre son activité au sein d'un cabinet d'avocats, le couple se met à la recherche d'une nounou.

In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls? What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods.

Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal—though not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Nor in her professional life, as she struggles to open her new café following the unsettling events that recently occurred at her aunt's Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie's Kitchen.

"Je suis certain qu'on ne peut être heureux sans argent. Voilà tout. Je n'aime ni la facilité ni le romantisme. J'aime à me rendre compte. Eh bien, j'ai remarqué que chez certains êtres d'élite il y a une sorte de snobisme spirituel à croire que l'argent n'est pas nécessaire au bonheur. C'est bête, c'est faux, et dans une certaine mesure, c'est lâche." En 1938, Albert Camus abandonne son premier roman, La mort heureuse, pour commencer à rédiger L'étranger.

"I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor, and satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!" —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow. For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl.

Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer New York Times Notable Book NPR's Best Books of 2021 Washington Post's Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year Goodreads Choice Award Nominee Book of the Month's Book of the Year Finalist "Provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too." — Washington Post "Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times." —Michael Connelly "A

Hearts may freeze or thaw, but love never dies. In December 2013, an ice storm buries Toronto as realtor Laura Keys prepares to sell a one-of-a-kind house on behalf of its comatose owner. Haunting Laura, and longing to be invited in, is a mysterious teenage girl with a Scottish terrier tucked into her coat. As Laura readies the house for showing, she learns more about its owner, Edna "Eddie" Ferguson. Leading up to the Great Snowstorm of 1944, Eddie, a brickmaker, enters into a passionate yet ill-fated affair with her boss's daughter.

From the author of the BookTok sensation Win Lose Kill Die, comes an explosive mystery about a teenager whose true-crime obsession hits a little too close to home when she begins receiving cryptic messages after moving into a new house. "Deliciously twisted fun!"—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying. When true-crime obsessed Paige, along with her family, move across the Atlantic to her father's eerie hometown, it's not long before she uncovers the town's dark history—a string of unsolved murders and disappearances in the 90s.

National Bestseller • “Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—Jodi Picoult, author of Wish You Were Here. A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love. One of the Best Books of the Year: She Reads. Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her.

New York Times Bestseller • The newest mystery from the author of One of Us Is Lying, the queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal. For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since. Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party.