Anders Pieterse Livres

Concludes the fantasy series. The dragon charmer, Prospero's children.

À Édimbourg, ça ne va pas fort pour l'inspecteur John Rebus. Il s'est fait jeter dehors par sa maîtresse et Michael, son frère fraîchement libéré de prison, débarque chez lui. Puis, un cuisinier fanatique d'Elvis Presley envoie Holmes, l'un de ses collègues, dans le coma. Enquêtant sur cette agression, Rebus découvre le carnet noir sur lequel Holmes notait les informations glanées dans les bars. Lorsque Michael est attaqué à son tour, Rebus prend l'affaire à coeur. Resurgit alors une vieille histoire jamais... Bien que Ian Rankin soit très populaire en Grande-Bretagne, Le Carnet noir est la première enquête de l'inspecteur Rebus traduite en français. Voici l'occasion de découvrir un personnage attachant qui fait songer à une sorte de Maigret de la génération des Rolling Stones : bourru, autoritaire, inquisiteur mais non violent. Et de s'immiscer dans l'âme sombre d'Édimbourg, aussi opaque qu'une bière stout. Un polar écossais aux rouages parfaitement maîtrisés. --Nicolas Mesplède

Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. Teamed with a London cop, Rebus lets a psychologist into the case and develops a bizarre portrait of a vicious killer. Now it's only question of who is going to get busted first: the cop with the accent who breaks all the rules--or the psycho painting London with blood

Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of learning, of elegant living, known as the 'Athens of the North'. But that isn't all. The city's flip-side is a city of grudges, blackmail, violence, greed and fear - where past and present clash and old wounds fester. In any year Detective Inspector John Rebus can expect gang warfare, murder, assault and battery at the very least. In this collection he investigates the hanging of a student actor during the Festival, an arson attack on a bird watcher and the witnessing of an apparent miracle...

Ça vous dirait de vivre votre propre autopsie ? De rencontrer le Diable ? De vous suicider de désespoir dans les plaines enneigées du Minnesota ? De fuir la police en compagnie de Dillinger ? De devenir assassin via Internet ou de trouver la petite pièce porte-bonheur qui vous fera décrocher le jackpot ? Alors laissez-vous guider par Stephen King.

Underneath the cobbled streets of Edinburgh's old Town are medieval stone cellars where a man could scream and never be heard. In mortal Causes, the tortured body of a young man is found hanging from a butcher's hook in one of these underground rooms. The tattoo on his wrist and a cryptic inscription scratched in the dirt suggest to Inspector John Rebus that this was an execution, but what man or men carried it out?

English fantasy at its finest, the first in this exciting new trilogy steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker's Weaveworld. A mysterious, isolated house awaits sixteen-year-old Fern and her brother Will for the summer holidays. As the old house reveals its secrets, their familiar world starts to fracture, giving access to a magical and corrupt land destroyed thousands of years ago. For hidden in the house is a talisman which has been sought by the forces of good and evil for millennia. And only someone possessed of the Gift can use it. Soon, Fern finds herself being courted by the enigmatic wanderer, Ragginbone, and the sinister art-dealer, Javier Holt, who know that she has the Gift. Both want her to find the talisman, and use it to unlock the door, but what awaits her on the other side...? This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero's Children steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker's Weaveworld, and is destined to become a modern classic.

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind . . .

Een vermoorde illegaal wordt aangetroffen in een achterbuurt van Edinburgh. Is het een racistische moord of iets heel anders? Inspecteur John Rebus wordt erbij betrokken, maar het moeizame onderzoek zit algauw even vast als Rebus' carrière. Ook Rebus' partner Siobhan heeft problemen. Ze wil de ouders van een vermiste dochter helpen, waardoor ze zich ongezond dicht bij een veroordeelde verkrachter waagt. En dan duiken er nog twee skeletten op onder de vloer van een pub. Is er verband met de zaak waar Rebus aan werkt? De rechtelozen gaat over een samenleving waarin gemeenschappelijke waarden zijn ingeruild voor hebzucht, wantrouwen, geweld en exploitatie. Meer dan ooit neemt Rankin de maat van het moderne Schotland - een land dat veel lijkt op het huidige, stuurloze Nederland.

MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel with a prostitute only too keen to show off her considerable assets. When the media horde begins baying for political blood Jack's friends rally round to protect him. But some of those friends - particularly his wife's associates - are not so squeaky clean themselves. Initially Detective Inspector Rebus is sympathetic to the MP's dilemma - who hasn't occasionally succumbed to temptation? - but with the disappearance of Jack's wife the glamour surrounding the popular young man begins to tarnish. Someone wants to strip Jack naked and Rebus wants to know why ...

"Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket