Holly
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 528 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86868
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Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.
Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.
Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King
Love, mom
Author: Xander, Iliana
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2026 | Pages: 416 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91805
What if your mother was hiding a secret so dark... it could destroy you? Twenty-one-year-old Mackenzie grew up in the shadow of her famous mother, EV Renge, a bestselling thriller author. So when her mother dies suddenly in an accident, Mackenzie inherits more than just grief. On the day of the funeral, she receives a strange letter that begins with the words: 'Want to know a secret? Love, Mom.'
Inside the envelope is an excerpt from her mother's diary. What Mackenzie discovers leaves her in shock. A second and third letter follow, each one revealing a disturbing truth. Lies. Manipulation. Murder. Very quickly, Mackenzie realizes that her mother may not have been who she thought she was, and that her fame hides a reality as unsettling as it is dangerous...
Because there are secrets that should never be unearthed. And truths worse than death
Maria: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Maria: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 3
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 512 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91857
Montreal, January 1836. A book rocks the city: it recounts sordid tales of fornication between the Hospitaller Sisters of the Hôtel-Dieu and the Sulpicians, evoking desecration, murder, and debauchery. High society is in an uproar, and the bishop must defend the reputation of his diocese. Montreal, September 1892. A mass grave of children is discovered on Le Royer Street. Then, the mutilated body of a banker is found in Griffintown, and two little girls bearing terrible signs of sexual abuse are pulled from the river near de la Commune Street. The three cases seem unrelated until an elderly priest gives Joseph Laflamme a copy of the 1836 book, hinting that history is repeating itself. To unravel the plot, Laflamme, Inspector Arcand and the rest of the group will have to penetrate a world of corruption with unsuspected ramifications and unearth a scandal buried for half a century
L'accompagnatrice
Translated title: The Accompanist
Author: Berberova, Nina
Genre: Social Novel / Historical
Year: 2024 | Pages: 108 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86889
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Set in Saint Petersburg in 1919 and Paris in 1920, this tale unfolds around a singer and her accompanist, their tumultuous relationship echoing the aftermath of the recent upheavals in Russia
La fille du docteur Moreau
Translated title: Doctor Moreau's Daughter
Author: Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Genre: Historical / Science Fiction
Year: 2024 | Pages: 384 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86869
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A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.
Carlota Moreau: a young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula. The only daughter of either a genius, or a madman.
Montgomery Laughton: a melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers.
The hybrids: the fruits of the Doctor's labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows. A motley group of part human, part animal monstrosities.
All of them living in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Doctor Moreau's patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction.
For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite.
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is both a dazzling historical novel and a daring science fiction journey
Après
Translated title: Later
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror / Mystery
Year: 2023 | Pages: 342 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86870
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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears
Hidden Pictures
Author: Rekulak, Jason
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 427 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86878
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A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.
Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman's lifeless body.
Then, Teddy's artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.
Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it's too late
J'aime votre peur
Translated title: I Like Your Fear
Author: Giebel, Karine
Genre: Short Stories / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 456 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91810
The queen of noir fiction presents her finest short stories, collected in a beautifully produced volume. Karine Giebel offers a collection of 14 short stories: her best works, representative of the diversity of her oeuvre.
A blend of thriller, suspense, mystery, romance, and social commentary, this collection features unforgettable characters struggling against despair, the darkness of the human soul, and social injustice.
These are powerful stories of life where darkness intertwines with resilience, courage, and the most beautiful expressions of love. An ideal book to discover or rediscover one of the greatest voices in contemporary noir fiction
Joseph: Les Enquêtes De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Joseph: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 5
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91860
MONTREAL, JULY 1893. Joseph Laflamme, present near the scene of a murder, is arrested and accused of brutally murdering the victim. Despite his cries of frame-up, the circumstances are overwhelming. His only hope lies in the investigation led by Inspector Marcel Arcand. While trying to support his wife, who is struggling with profound melancholy, and despite feeling like his world is crumbling around him, Arcand faces a cruel dilemma: give in to blackmail or let Laflamme be unjustly accused
Le peuple des ombres
Translated title: Patel & Pardoe #3 - The Shadow People
Series: Volume 3
Author: Masterton, Graham
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 370 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86875
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Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel hunt down a ritualistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals in the new chilling horror from Graham Masterton.
Det. Sgt. Jamila Patel and Det. Con. Jerry Pardoe have reluctantly acquired a reputation in the Metropolitan Police for their ability to tackle bizarre and apparently supernatural crimes. Now they have been called back together after three bodies are found in a London basement... bodies which have been taken apart, roasted and eaten.
The markings on the wall suggest this might have been done by some kind of religious cult -and as more people are kidnapped and cannibalised, Patel and Pardoe realise they are dealing with a group of devil-worshippers invoking an ancient god who has not been worshipped since the Neolithic age
