Des histoires à dévorer les lumières allumées ! La vengeance d'une victime de viol, des émissaires du Vatican aux intentions troubles, un petit garçon qui sourit aux morts, une reine aux larmes magiques, un livre hanté, une bibliothèque diabolique, des fœtus dans des bocaux, une créature aux milliers d'yeux, des fantômes, des démons, des assassins... Avec ce recueil de nouvelles (dont deux novellas) envoûtantes et effrayantes, John Connolly délaisse le détective Charlie Parker et se plonge dans le registre du surnaturel pour le plus grand plaisir des lecteurs ! 15h36
DID CANADA’S FAVOURITE RADIO HOST COMMIT MURDER? Kevin Brace, Canada’s most famous radio personality, stands in the doorway of his luxury condominium, hands covered in blood, and announces to his newspaper delivery man: “I killed her.” His wife lies dead in the bathtub, fatally stabbed. It would appear to be an open-and-shut case. The trouble is, Brace refuses to talk to anyone—including his own lawyer—after muttering those incriminating words. With the discovery that the victim was actually a self-destructive alcoholic, the appearance of strange fingerprints at the crime scene, and a revealing courtroom cross-examination, the seemingly simple case takes on all the complexities of a hotly contested murder trial. In the tradition of defence lawyers turned authors like Scott Turow and John Grisham, Robert Rotenberg delivers a legal thriller rich with his forensic skill and insider knowledge, taking readers on a tour of Toronto from the Don Jail to the towers of Bay Street and into the shadowy corridors of the Old City Hall courthouse.
" Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, profane, hilarious, and tragic, sometimes in a single line, Lush Life is his masterwork. I doubt anyone will write a novel this good for a long, long time. " — Dennis Lehane " So, what do you do? " Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter… But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. Ask him what he did, he wouldn't say tending bar. He was going places--until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least, that's Eric's version. In Lush Life, Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the 'new' New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. Lush Life is an X-ray of the street in the age of no broken windows and "quality of life" squads, from a writer whose " tough, gritty brand of social realism…reads like a movie in prose. " — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times .
