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Neil Cross

    9 février 1969

    Cet auteur explore les motivations humaines profondes et les complexités des relations interpersonnelles, souvent situées dans des décors captivants et atmosphériques. Sa maîtrise stylistique réside dans sa capacité à tisser subtilement suspense et intimité, entraînant les lecteurs dans des récits psychologiquement riches. À travers une narration méticuleusement élaborée, il explore les thèmes de l'identité, de l'isolement et de la recherche de sens dans le monde contemporain. Son écriture se distingue par sa perspicacité et son langage évocateur, laissant une impression durable sur le lecteur.

    Neil Cross
    Natural History
    Always the Sun
    Burial
    Luther: The Calling
    Captif
    • Captif

      • 360pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Oui sommes-nous vraiment ? Et de quoi, en certaines circonstances, serions-nous capables ? Dérangeant, ultra-angoissant, un roman noir redoutablement efficace, de ceux qui nous mettent face à nos propres zones d'ombre. Kenny va bientôt mourir. Un cancer foudroyant. Il voudrait partir l'âme en paix, réparer ses offenses, ses lâchetés, ses oublis. À l'égard de Caille surtout, son amie d'enfance. Mais Callie a disparu. Fugue ? Meurtre ? Et si seul le mari connaissait la réponse ? Bientôt le soupçon vire à l'obsession. Kenny est prêt à tout pour obtenir des aveux... Le piège, cruel et sans issue, se referme sur le bourreau comme sur la victime.

      Captif
      3,0
    • Luther: The Calling

      A Novel: A John Luther Novel

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Meet DCI John Luther. He's brilliant. He's intense. He's obsessional. He's dangerous. DCI John Luther has an extraordinary clearance rate. He commands outstanding loyalty from friends and colleagues. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. But Luther seethes with a hidden fury that at times he can barely control. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making him do things he shouldn't; things way beyond the limits of the law. The Calling , the first in a new series of novels featuring DCI John Luther, takes us into Luther's past and into his mind. It is the story of the case that tore his personal and professional relationships apart and propelled him over the precipice. Beyond fury, beyond vengeance. All the way to murder…

      Luther: The Calling
      4,3
    • Burial

      • 291pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      What do you do when your guiltiest secret comes back to haunt you, threatening to destroy every aspect of your life?

      Burial
      3,6
    • Always the Sun

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      What do you do when your son is bullied? How far will you go to protect him from those who seek to cause him harm? Jamie is thirteen years old, an only child. His mother has recently died. He and his father Sam have moved to Sam's home town. A fresh start. An aunt to lend support. A new job for Sam, a new school for Jamie. But one day Jamie comes home, bearing the scars of every parent's nightmare. Something must be done....So it begins.

      Always the Sun
      3,2
    • Natural History

      • 279pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      "Patrick's son Charlie has left home in disgrace. His zoologist wife Jane is on a field trip in Zaire and his daughter Jo is engrossed in her studies. So Patrick is left alone to look after the ailing Devonshire monkey sanctuary that he and Jane took on in a bid to save their marriage. Alone, that is, but for the big, panther-like cat that preys around the park, evading capture, lurking in the shadows and in the back of Patrick's mind as he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder of their oldest female primate. Patrick's fears begin to fade. But then one night something happens that is so shocking, so deplorable, that it rips apart everything he ever held to be true - and unleashes a horror he could never have imagined ..."--Jacket.

      Natural History
      3,2