Douze ans après
Translated title: Twelve Years Later
Author: Gardner, Lisa
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2026 | Pages: 455 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91803
Frankie Elkin vowed to find the missing and forgotten. But she never expected Kaylee Pierson, a death row inmate, to ask her to find her sister, Leilani. She gives her three weeks. Used to challenges, Frankie accepts the mission. Twelve years earlier, five-year-old Leilani disappeared in Hawaii. Now, her trail has been picked up on an atoll an hour's flight from Honolulu, where Kaylee's former boyfriend, now a tech mogul, plans to build a luxury ecolodge.
If she wants to uncover the truth and perhaps save the girl's life, Frankie must infiltrate a remote base camp. The obstacles? The hostility of a few individuals. Countless dangerous secrets. No way to call for help. And a tropical storm on the way
Prédateurs de la nuit
Translated title: Predators of the Night
Author: Grund, Maria
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 370 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91815
Translated
'MY NAME IS SANNA BERLING. CAN WE TALK HERE, OR WOULD YOU PREFER SOMEWHERE ELSE?' A gripping psychological thriller from the queen of Swedish suspense. Sweden, March 1986. An icy fog blankets the lakes of Augu. Two years earlier, in this very spot, the remains of a teenage girl were found in two white suitcases. The murderer has been behind bars ever since. At least, that's what the locals believe.
When Sanna Berling, a newly graduated police officer, learns that another girl from the village has disappeared, she decides to investigate and uncovers inconsistencies in the case. The deeper she delves into this maze of lies and secrets, the more determined she becomes to expose the truth
Benjamin: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Benjamin: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 4
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91858
Montreal, May 1893. The body of a man is discovered on the upper floor of Ramezay Castle. In the days that follow, more murders occur. Joseph Laflamme, now a journalist for La Patrie, conducts his investigation alongside Inspector Marcel Arcand and George McCreary. Gradually, it becomes clear that all the murders are linked to an ancient document which, if revealed, would transform the entire history of North America. As the body count rises, Laflamme finds himself caught in the middle of a rivalry between the American and Canadian governments, and also becomes the target of an extremely dangerous secret society
Adolphus: Les Enquêtes De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Adolphus: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 6
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91861
Montreal, October 1893. Joseph, Mary, Emma and McCreary visit Sohmer Park, where a traveling circus has set up its museum of curiosities. Among the exhibits is the axe used by Montrealer Adolphus Dewey to murder his wife in 1833. That same evening, a couple is found dead near the big top; clearly, the killer was inspired by the gruesome murder that occurred sixty years earlier. Now without his partner, Inspector Arcand, and despite the police making his life difficult, Joseph conducts his own investigation. This leads him to question the showmen, and he discovers a strange world, full of secrets
Gold Rush
Author: Cornell, Sam
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 78 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86883
In Dakota, 1876, a mere weeks after the American army's defeat at the Little Bighorn battlefield, vengeance fuels the relentless pursuit of rebel forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. Despite the harsh elements of cold, rain, and hunger, General George Crook remains resolute in his quest for revenge. As September dawns, the ominous hills of the Black Hills present a prime opportunity for retribution. However, Crook soon discovers a formidable adversary beyond anything he could have envisioned, defying all expectations and comprehension
Plus grand que le ciel
Translated title: Bigger Than the Sky
Author: Grimaldi, Virginie
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 21 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91821
Elsa and Vincent meet every Wednesday in their psychiatrist's waiting room. She is raw and sharp-tongued. He is dreamy and restless. She is a funeral director. He is a novelist. She has just lost her father. He is hiding his deepest wound. She is late. He is early. Yet they have an appointment. Between bursts of laughter, Virginie Grimaldi captures these fragile moments where the imprint of memories mingles with the promise of a meeting
Ne le laissez pas entrer
Translated title: Don't Let Him In
Author: Jewell, Lisa
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 448 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91802
They should have heeded that warning: Don't let him in. After her husband's sudden death, Nina meets Nick Radcliffe, a kind and attentive man who gradually enters her life and her heart. Nick is perfect in every way - too perfect, perhaps? Nina's daughter, Ash, is suspicious. Determined to protect her mother, she delves into the past of this mysterious Prince Charming... and soon regrets it.
In the neighboring town, Martha notices her husband, Alistair, being away more and more often. Despite his reassuring explanations, a persistent unease lingers. Something isn't right. What is he hiding? But it's already too late for Nina, Ash, and Martha: when the truth comes out, it's far darker than they could have imagined
L'horreur de Dunwich
Translated title: The Dunwich Horror
Author: Lovecraft, Howard Phillips
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
Year: 2023 | Pages: 96 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86886
Translated
Dunwich, a dreary village nestled amidst the hills of Massachusetts, becomes the backdrop for eerie and unsettling occurrences. The birth of Wilbur Whateley shrouds in mystery, with misfortune casting a shadow over his family.
Raised in isolation, Wilbur succumbs to his dark instincts, embarking on a perilous path by pilfering the Necronomicon, a tome of witchcraft... Bolt the doors, seal the windows, and illuminate every corner before delving into this tome
Vous serez ma reine
Translated title: You Will Be My Queen
Author: Desplat-Duc, Anne-Marie
Genre: Romance / Historical
Year: 2025 | Pages: 376 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91846
The only favorite of Louis XIV who almost became Queen of France.
I am Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin.
At sixteen, I was Louis XIV's confidante, his promised bride.
'You will be my queen', he had sworn to me... before reasons of state separated us.
Exiled, forced to marry a feared prince, I was torn from him.
But the story is not over.
I will reclaim my freedom.
I will find the Sun King at the height of his reign.
I swore an oath
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
