Annabella Caminiti Livres

Pico Mundo, Californie. Le jeune Odd Thomas, cuisinier de son état, possède un don particulier: il communique avec les morts. Pourra-t-il sauver la petite ville du mal qui rôde ?

Billy cassait la croûte. Comme un cochon d'ailleurs. Rôti froid, mortadelle et beignets, il avait une faim de loup. Ca lui faisait toujours cet effet après. Les boîtes de bière étaient maculées de trainées rougeâtres : le Boucher n'avait pas enlevé ses gants pour manger. Par la porte ouverte, il apercevait le corps d'Edna gisant dans une marre de sang. Un beau brin de fille, pas vraiment coopérative au départ, mais son couteau avait su la convaincre... avant de lui ouvrir le ventre... Pour rigoler, il avait même découpé le nombril de la fille et le lui avait mis dans la main. Il aimait bien signer ses meurtres d'une façon originale. Et ça déconcertait tellement les flics ! Encore quelques meurtres bien sanglants et tous les obsédés sexuels, névrosés et refoulés de tout poil qui peuplaient New York termineraient le boulot pour lui.

The international bestseller Dean Koontz delivers a masterclass of storytelling suspense in this thriller. What would you do if a serial killer forced you to choose who he murders next? On the windscreen of his SUV, Billy finds the first note. It gives him a choice. If he takes the note to the police, an elderly woman will be killed. If he doesn't approach the police, a schoolteacher will die. He thinks it's a hoax. The schoolteacher is killed. Further notes taunt Billy's conscience, forcing him to decide who lives and who dies. He must think the unthinkable, fast, in an accelerating nightmare. More communications from the killer follow with ever tighter deadlines. Each is more personal, more confrontational than the last until he is isolated, with no one to rely on but himself. Finally, he must risk everything to save the helpless, clueless victims...

Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government—and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago—inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first.