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B.A. Paris

    1 janvier 1958

    B A Paris est une auteure à succès international dont les thrillers captivants explorent le côté sombre des relations et les secrets cachés derrière des façades parfaites. Son écriture se caractérise par une maîtrise du suspense et des rebondissements inattendus qui tiennent les lecteurs en haleine. Avec une approche unique de la tension psychologique et des personnages magistralement ciselés, elle a captivé un vaste lectorat mondial. Ses œuvres explorent souvent la fragilité des liens humains et les conséquences des vérités dissimulées.

    B.A. Paris
    The Breakdown
    The Wife Upstairs
    Casting Off
    Le dilemme
    Le cercle de Finsbury
    Derrière les portes
    • Le dilemme

      • 380pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      S'il parle, il la détruit.S'il se tait, il se détruit.Et vous, que feriez-vous ? Depuis toujours, Livia rêve d'une énorme soirée pour ses 40 ans ; et Adam, son mari, met tout en oeuvre pour que la fête soit inoubliable. Il s'organise pour que leur fille Marnie vienne exprès de Hong Kong – ce sera une surprise pour Livia. Mais quelques heures avant la soirée, Adam apprend que le vol dans lequel se trouvait peut-être Marnie s'est crashé. Est-ce qu'elle avait pu prendre cet avion, sachant que son vol précédent avait décollé en retard et qu'elle pensait ne pas pouvoir attraper sa correspondance ? Adam doit-il en parler à Livia, au risque de l'inquiéter pour rien ? Et pourquoi Livia semble-t-elle soulagée que Marnie ne soit pas là ? Lorsque la fête commence, chacun devra danser avec ses secrets et ses peurs. Jusqu'à ce que s'ouvre enfin le portillon du jardin et qu'une silhouette s'avance vers les invités...

      Le dilemme
      3,2
    • Casting Off

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Casting Off is a hilarious, poignant story of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice. It's a story about never giving up and how reaching out to strangers can completely change our lives.

      Casting Off
      3,9
    • Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. Then she’s in a terrible accident… and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria’s husband to help care for her. But it turns out Victoria isn’t as impaired as Sylvia was led to believe. There’s a story Victoria desperately wants to tell... if only she could get out the words. Then Sylvia discovers Victoria’s diary hidden away in a drawer. And what’s inside is shocking.

      The Wife Upstairs
      3,9
    • The Breakdown

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      “Even harder to put down than Behind Closed Doors...with two in a row, Paris moves directly to the thriller A-list.”—Booklist (starred review) Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods. It was on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, and a woman was sitting inside—the one who was killed. Cass is trying to put the crime out of her mind. What could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm and, as her husband keeps reminding her, Cass might have been hurt herself if she’d pulled over. But since then, Cass has been forgetting every little thing. Where she left the car, if she took her pills, even the alarm code. The only thing she can’t forget is that woman. And now that Cass keeps receiving silent phone calls, she can’t quite shake the feeling that someone’s watching her... “Riveting.”—Library Journal (starred review) “A story with a ratcheting sense of unease—a tale of friendship and love, sanity, and the terrible unravelling of it.” —USA Today

      The Breakdown
      3,9
    • The Devil You Know

      • 353pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Dr. Jane McGill is in heaven.She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Granted, it would be wonderful if her preschooler wouldn’t wake her up at three in the morning, and it would be a miracle if her husband would change the toilet paper roll once every millennium. Still, in most ways, she has the ideal life she’d always imagined.Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA’s newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly, a.k.a. Sexy Surgeon, a.k.a. the biggest jerk she ever loved.A decade ago, Jane broke up with the Sexy Surgeon to marry the Nice Software Engineer, but as cracks and crevices appear in her marriage, she can’t help but wonder what life would have been like if she’d made a different choice. Or if it isn’t too late to change her mind…

      The Devil You Know
      3,7
    • The Prisoner

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with THE PRISONER—a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. A USA Today Bestseller! Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne. But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned? In the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Therapist, multimillion-copy bestseller B. A. Paris is back with a gripping new suspense novel.

      The Prisoner
      3,6
    • The Guest

      • 368pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another home full of heart-pounding secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and again: sleeping in their bed, wearing Iris' clothes, even rearranging the furniture. Laure has walked out on her husband--and their good friend--Pierre, over his confession of an affair and a secret child. Iris and Gabriel want to be supportive of their friends, but as Laure's mood becomes increasingly unpredictable, her presence takes its toll. Iris and Gabriel's only respite comes in the form of a couple new to town. But with them comes their gardener, who has a checkered past. Soon, secrets from all their pasts will unravel, some more dangerous than they could have known.

      The Guest
      3,6
    • Bring Me Back

      • 291pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      She went missing. He moved on. A whole world of secrets remained, until now. Finn and Layla are young, in love, and on vacation. They're driving along the highway when Finn decides to stop at a service station to use the restroom. He hops out of the car, locks the doors behind him, and goes inside. When he returns Layla is gone, never to be seen again. That is the story Finn told to the police. But it is not the whole story. Ten years later Finn is engaged to Layla's sister, Ellen. Their shared grief over what happened to Layla drew them close and now they intend to remain together. Still, there's something about Ellen that Finn has never fully understood. His heart wants to believe that she is the one for him, even though a sixth sense tells him not to trust her. Then, not long before he and Ellen are to be married, Finn gets a phone call. Someone from his past has seen Layla, hiding in plain sight. There are other odd occurrences: Long-lost items from Layla's past that keep turning up around Finn and Ellen's house. Emails from strangers who seem to know too much. Secret messages, clues, warnings. If Layla is alive, and on Finn's trail, what does she want? And how much does she know? A tour de force of psychological suspense, Bring Me Back will have you questioning everything and everyone until its stunning climax.

      Bring Me Back
      3,5