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Susan Hill

    5 février 1942

    Susan Hill tisse des récits qui plongent dans la profondeur psychologique et le suspense, explorant souvent les thèmes de l'isolement et de la peur. Sa prose se caractérise par un style économique mais évocateur qui attire les lecteurs dans les mondes troublants de ses personnages. Hill construit magistralement une atmosphère qui s'installe lentement, laissant une impression durable. Sa capacité à pénétrer dans les recoins les plus sombres de la psyché humaine la distingue comme une voix puissante dans la littérature de suspense.

    Susan Hill
    The Soul of Discretion
    Go Away, Bad Dreams!
    Ghost Stories
    Archi Poche - 374: La main de la nuit
    La dame en noir
    Malédiction de Manderley
    • Malédiction de Manderley

      • 395pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      3,2(2390)Évaluer

      Rebecca was Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. Countless readers wondered: what happened next? Out of fire-wracked ruins of Manderley, would love and renewal rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the embittered past? Married to the sophisticated, wordly-wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Winter's life should be happy and fulfilled. But the vengeful ghost of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, continues to cast its long shadow over them. Back in England after an absence of over ten years, it seems as if happiness will at last be theirs. But the de Winters still have to reckon with two hate-consumed figures they once knew - both of whom have very long memories...

      Malédiction de Manderley
    • Archi Poche - 374: La main de la nuit

      • 186pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      «Je me trouvai dans le jardin faiblement éclairé d'une lueur verdâtre. Les oiseaux s'étaient tus. Aucune vibration ne troublait plus l'atmosphère. C'est alors que je sentis une petite main se glisser dans la mienne, comme si un enfant s'était matérialisé à côté de moi dans l'obscurité. Mais l'enfant était invisible.»Adam Snow, un marchand de livres anciens perdu dans la campagne anglaise, arrive dans le parc d'un manoir à l'abandon. Par curiosité, il se dirige vers la porte d'entrée, lorsqu'il ressent une mystérieuse présence. La petite main qui a saisi la sienne va désormais l'obséder. D'autant qu'elle semble lui vouloir du mal. Auteur de La Dame en noir (L'Archipel, 2012), Susan Hill, référence du roman gothique britannique, signe ici un conte fantastique d'une intensité saisissante.

      Archi Poche - 374: La main de la nuit
    • Ghost Stories

      • 176pages
      • 7 heures de lecture
      4,4(3)Évaluer

      A collection of short stories both in the contemporary and traditional style. The book includes suggestions for writing and aims to encourage pupils to consider alternative ways of looking at a play or story. It is intended for class use and for GCSE examinations and coursework.

      Ghost Stories
    • The Soul of Discretion

      • 385pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,1(2674)Évaluer

      From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land.When one day DC Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers. He is asked to take the principal role in a difficult, potentially dangerous undercover operation and must leave town immediately, without telling anyone - not even his girlfriend Rachel, who has only just moved in with him. Meanwhile, Simon's sister Cat is facing difficult choices at work, as Lafferton's hospice closes its bedded units; and at home, as her daughter is presented with a glittering opportunity that they would struggle afford. And all is not well with Simon and Cat's step-mother, Judith, either. To complete his special op, Simon must inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal. This takes its toll on Simon and, as the op unfolds, also on the town and some of its most respected citizens.

      The Soul of Discretion
    • 'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs network sets its sights on Lafferton and the surrounding villages DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give Simon a bitter taste of this new landscape... 'Hill's Serailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's' SCOTSMAN

      A Change of Circumstance
    • Dangerous Faith

      • 208pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      3,9(14)Évaluer

      World-changers. Rebels. Rejecters of the status quo. Throughout history, Christians were never meant to have a safe faith. Highlighting people throughout the millennia, Dangerous Faith is a compilation of faith, facts, and art that celebrates the faith lives of spiritual giants and inspires you to grow in your own personal faith.

      Dangerous Faith
    • Simon Serrailler's story began in The Various Haunts of Men (about a serial killer) and continued with The Pure in Heart (about a kidnapped schoolboy) Susan Hill is not afraid to tackle difficult issues, nor to face up to the realities of st

      The Risk of Darkness. Der Seele schwarzer Grund, englische Ausgabe
    • The Shadows in the Street

      • 372pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,0(4760)Évaluer

      Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case and is on sabbatical on a far-flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. When the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean goes missing and then another respectable woman is taken on her way to work, the townspeople grow angry and afraid. Serrailler is in the greatest danger of his life.

      The Shadows in the Street