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Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than...

In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks. When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the...

Andrew Foster thought he had outrun the ghosts of his youth-until one offer brings them all screaming back. A visionary developer on the verge of collapse, Andrew is handed a final shot at redemption: complete The Precipice, a landmark coastal project his ailing father once dreamed of.

Une enquête sur la face sombre de l'adolescence. 2022, Sarrouilles, petit village des Pyrénées. Valériane Ducuing reprend connaissance chez elle. Bâillonnée, immobilisée par un savant entrelacs de sangles, elle repose au fond de sa baignoire. Un instant plus tard, elle réalise que le robinet coule et que l'eau monte lentement. À son oreille, une voix murmure : " Tu vas mourir, Valériane. "

Thea Farmer, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished career ended under a cloud over a decade earlier, following a scandal involving a much younger male teacher. After losing her savings in the financial crash, she is forced to sell the dream house she had built for her old age and live on in her dilapidated cottage opposite.

Lorsque le cadavre d'une juge d'instruction est retrouvé atrocement mutilé, Thérèse Sadimenski et son coéquipier Raphaël Lurin, tous deux lieutenants à la section de recherches de Paris, débutent une enquête aussi difficile qu'éprouvante. En effet, l'assassin semble anticiper chacun de leurs gestes et multiplie les jeux de piste en faisant preuve d'une imagination qui n'a d'égale que sa barbarie.