Anna Martini Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Dopo un violento combattimento con la malavita che li ha quasi uccisi, Locke e il suo fedele compare Jean fuggono dalla città in cui sono nati e approdano agli esotici lidi di Tal Verrar per curarsi le ferite. Ma neppure all'estremità occidentale del mondo civilizzato possono riposare, e presto tornano a dedicarsi a ciò che sanno fare meglio: rubare ai ricchi e intascare il ricavato. Questa volta il loro obiettivo è oltremodo ambizioso: la torre di Peccapicco, la casa da gioco più esclusiva e più sorvegliata che ci sia. I suoi nove piani attirano una clientela facoltosa, e per giungere fino alla cima servono buon credito, comportamenti bizzarri... e un gioco semplicemente impeccabile. Perché c'è una sola regola importante che Requin, lo spietato padrone di Peccapicco, fa rispettare rigorosamente: chi bara avrà la morte. Per nulla intimoriti, Locke e Jean hanno elaborato una strategia che comprende bugie, trucchi e inganni per tutti e nove i piani... su su fino al favoloso caveau di Requin. Sotto mentite spoglie, compiono la loro meticolosa ascesa verso un obiettivo ormai vicinissimo... Ma qualcuno a Tal Verrar ha scoperto il loro segreto. Qualcuno giunto dal passato, che ha tutte le intenzioni di far pagare ai due sfacciati malviventi i crimini commessi. Ora avranno veramente bisogno di ogni grammo di astuzia per salvare le loro anime prezzolate. E potrebbe non bastare...

"With the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. Locke is slowly succumbing to a lethal poison that no alchemist can cure. With the end nearing, Locke's only hope is to accept a mysterious Bondsmage's offer: act as a political pawn in the Magi elections, and in exchange be healed. But the lifesaving sorcery promises to rival even the most excruciating death, and Locke refuses. Until the Bondsmage invokes the name of Sabetha, the love of Locke's life ... and now his greatest rival. From his first glimpse of Sabetha as a fellow orphan and thief-in-training, Locke was smitten. But after a tumultuous courtship, she broke away. Now they will reunite in another clash of wills. Faced with his only equal in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha--or woo her. It is a decision on which both their lives may depend"--Back cover

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday. But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him. In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.

Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E.

In New York, in the year 2007, Katherine Reckliss learns her grandmother's SOE radio has started picking up disturbing messages, warning that a V1 containing the Secret Fire - a weapon beyond all imagining that can wipe the enemies off the face of the earth - is being launched by the Nazis and its target is London.

Dans un motel, une jeune femme se délasse sous la douche. Emergeant de la vapeur, une main écarte le rideau en plastique. Une autre brandit un couteau de boucher. L'inconnue hurle d'effroi. Insensible, l'assassin abat encore et encore le bras. Bientôt une spirale sanglante se forme autour de la bonde... Cette scène de Psychose d'Alfred Hitchcock, l'inspecteur Byrne et sa coéquipière Jessica Balzano la croyaient réservée au panthéon du cinéma. Mais voilà qu'un détraqué l'a reproduite. Et filmée. Pour de vrai. Et s'ils ne l'arrêtent pas très vite, le tueur cinéphile risque de transformer Philadelphie en Hollywood macabre car pendant que les pistes se multiplient, la caméra continue de tourner...

50 avant J.-C.: la bibliothèque d'Alexandrie, qui renferme le savoir de toute l'humanité, disparaît aussi soudainement que mystérieusement. 1948, Palestine : Georges Haddad, fils d'un érudit et combattant palestinien, reçoit la visite d'un étrange individu porteur de secrets, un Gardien. 2007, Copenhague : Cotton Malone, retraité du département de Justice américain, pensait pouvoir profiter de sa boutique de livres anciens. Mais une mystérieuse organisation kidnappe son fils et lui donne 72 heures pour retrouver Georges Haddad. Malone doit, s'il veut sauver son fils, affronter tous les dangers pour retrouver Haddad, dont la connaissance des écrits disparus depuis plus de 2000 ans pourrait bien bouleverser la face du monde...

Kevin Byrne est un vétéran de la police criminelle de Philadelphie. Flic usé, détruit par ses années de service, il doit faire équipe avec Jessica Balzano, nouvelle venue dans le service, lorsqu'une adolescente fréquentant une école catholique de la ville est retrouvée violée et atrocement mutilée, les mains jointes dans un geste de prière. C'est le début d'un terrible voyage au cœur des ténèbres pour les deux flics qui, lancés sur la piste d'un tueur aussi terrifiant que machiavélique, devront affronter leurs propres démons, alors que la ville est prête à basculer dans la folie. Dans la lignée du Silence des agneaux et du Dalhia noir, Déviances, best-seller dans plus de dix pays, a imposé d'emblée Richard Montanari comme l'une des voix les plus puissantes et les plus sombres du thriller contemporain.

Harry Fabian is a cockney wide boy trying to make it big in the Soho underworld of the 1930s. He is a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a chancer operating in a cosmopolitan corner of the city where villains, spivs, prostitutes and strong-arm men thrive. But his ambition and reckless nature are pushing him towards more and more extreme acts - and a day of reckoning. Night And The City is a classic work of social-realist fiction that captures the vibrant yet seedy underbelly of London between the world wars.