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"En réalité, sur certains points, Claire Marie me fait penser à ces canards qui ont l'air de glisser sur l'eau mais leurs pattes remuent sous la surface à toute allure. Il y a quelque chose en eux d'un trompe-l'œil." Un dimanche d'automne, deux sœurs se retrouvent à Ville-d'Avray. Sous le secret d'une vie sage, chacune porte en elle le besoin insatiable de romanesque, découvert enfant à la lecture de Jane Eyre. Encouragée par l'atmosphère trouble et immobile de la fin d'après-midi, Claire Marie se laisse aller aux confidences.

Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed which swiftly convinced him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia would lead him to destroy the one thing he truly cared about...

"A wickedly plotted mystery with a metafictional twist that feels far fresher than those of more contemporary versions with the same idea" -The New York Times. A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizurui mansion in this prizewinning classic Japanese mystery. The 1st book in English from Akimitsu Takagi since his "Clever, kinky, and highly entertaining" The Tattoo Murder Case (Washington Post).

Bran’s taking the recycling down to the basement when the lights go out and the elevator stalls. Bran’s phone’s dead, he can hear screaming, but he can’t get out. Eventually, he manages to pry the doors open to find that something’s very wrong. His own mother can’t remember his name, there is this black slime dripping out of her ear and then she kills their cat. Bran runs. Outside, Vancouver is teeming with people acting strangely, and they all have the same black slime in their ears. What is going on and how can Bran stop it?

Battle-tested project leader at a PR firm and slippery bachelor, Sakuma sees himself as a player. His smug self-regard doesn't seem entirely unfounded, both in love and at work. When his idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed as too costly and vacuous at the last minute by a major client, he seems to have met his match. Katsuragi, an heir and executive at the global car maker Nissei Auto, is back from a marketing stint in the US with an authentic conviction that everything is a game.

A family epic blending mystery and romance, set in the luxurious trappings of today's London and the turbulent economies of Eastern Europe.

"Je reviendrai. Je garerai la voiture en haut de l'impasse. Je regarderai la maison. Douze ans. Douze ans que je n'aurai plus mis les pieds dans cet endroit. J'avais eu envie de devenir quelqu'un de normal. Et à présent que la voie était libre, j'avais compris que je n'étais capable de rien. Ni boulot, ni petite bonne femme, ni colonies de vacances pour les mômes. Une chose était encore possible : m'en revenir auprès de ma mère vieillissante, usée par la vie et le chagrin.

A “cautionary tale” (Chicago Tribune) about bacterial poisoning and corporate malevolence from the #1 bestselling author of Coma, “the master of the literary thriller” (The New York Times). “Searing . . . shocking . . . packs plenty of punches.”—Associated Press Newly divorced Dr. Kim Reggis takes his daughter, Becky, to her favorite fast-food restaurant on a special night out. The quintessential American meal of burgers and fries leads to tragedy: Over the following week Becky becomes gravely ill from E. coli bacterial poisoning.

The debut standalone novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7, Three Days in April is a near-future speculative thriller that marks the entry of a bright new voice into the genre. Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars, and his best friend is a cyborg...and a lousy tipper. When everything is spiraling out of control, though, maybe those are exactly the kind of friends you need.

A classic noir thriller about love and deception from the bestselling author of The Reader. Georg Polger ekes out a lonely living as a freelance translator in the south of France until he is approached by a certain Mr. Bulnakov, who has an intriguing proposition: Georg is to take over a local translation agency and finish a project left by the previous owner, who died in a mysterious accident. The money is right, and then there is the matter of Bulnakov’s secretary, Francoise, with whom Georg has fallen hopelessly in love.