VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in. OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.
Robert Langdon, professeur de symbologie a Harvard, se reveille en pleine nuit a l'hopital. Desoriente, blesse a la tete, il n'a aucun souvenir des dernieres trente-six heures. Pourquoi se retrouve-t-il a Florence ? D'ou vient cet objet macabre que les medecins ont decouvert dans ses affaires ? Quand son monde vire brutalement au cauchemar, Langdon decide de s'enfuir avec une jeune femme, Sienna Brooks. Rapidement, Langdon comprend qu'il est en possession d'un message code, cree par un eminent scientifique qui a consacre sa vie a eviter la fin du monde, une obsession qui n'a d'egale que sa passion pour Inferno, le grand poeme epique de Dante. Pris dans une course contre la montre, Langdon et Sienna font tout pour retrouver l'ultime creation du scientifique, veritable bombe a retardement, dont personne ne sait si elle va ameliorer la vie sur terre ou la detruire... On est contamine et on aime ca. Madame Figaro.
In Blow Fly, Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end. At the close of The Last Precinct, she knew she would have to leave Richmond if she were to find any peace. She feared that she was about to be fired by the governor. More alarming, she was hounded in the media and in the courtroom, for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief. So Scarpetta packed up her belongings and set out for the warmth and solace of the Florida sun. She is settling into a new life as a private forensic consultant and is deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her history of blackouts, and her violent outbursts while under their spell, offer more questions than clues about the cause of her death. Then Scarpetta receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne - the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman, who pursued her to her very doorstep - asks to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta. Only to her will he tell the secrets he knows the authorities desire: the evidence that will bring a global investigation to a swift conclusion. Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and her colleague Detective Pete Marino are left to wonder: After all the death and destruction, what sort of endgame could this violent psychopath have in mind? And could this request be somehow related to the Louisiana case? Her friends and family by her side, Scarpetta must unravel a twisting conspiracy with an international reach and confront theshock of her life - a blow that will force her to question the loyalty and trust of all she holds dear.
The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express
Kay Scarpetta s'apprête à célébrer son anniversaire à Miami en compagnie de son mari, Benton Wesley, quand elle remarque sept pièces de monnaie alignées à son insu sur le mur derrière leur maison. A cet instant, un appel du détective Pete Marino l'informe qu'un professeur a été abattu non loin de chez elle. Le tireur a agi avec précision et personne n'a rien vu ni entendu. Il pourrait s'agir du tueur ayant déjà fait des victimes dans le New Jersey, mais rien ne permet encore de l'affirmer. Kay soupçonne que le lien, s'il existe, se trouve sous ses yeux. Lorsque la menace se profile dans son entourage, il devient clair que quelqu'un cherche à la faire payer en monnaie de sang...
Vanuit een luxueus kantoor op de bovenste verdieping van een wolkenkrabber regeert de mooie Joan Kinkade met ijzeren hand haar succesvolle adviesbureau, een verantwoordelijke positie die haar vaak tot lang na kantooruren aan haar bureau gekluisterd houdt.
