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
8.2 Seconds
Author: Chattam, Maxime
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 391 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91801
8.2 seconds: That's how long it takes to fall in love. That's how long it takes to die. May and Constance don't know each other. But a shared secret binds them. And threatens them
À retardement
Translated title: Delayed
Author: Thilliez, Franck
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 480 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91816
Not all criminals are monsters. But are we ready to accept that? Eléonore Hourdel, a psychiatrist in a unit for difficult patients, receives a new patient. Delusional, undocumented, and unfit for police custody, the man inexplicably pushed a passenger onto the tracks and claims he was 'fleeing from worms.' Fifty kilometers away, Commander Sharko and his team discover the body of Denis Liénard in his home, riddled with screwdriver wounds to the abdomen.
Even more astonishing than this incomprehensible murderous rampage? Forensic technicians find no fingerprints or traces of DNA in the house, not even the victim's. And the mystery deepens when the police identify Eléonore Hourdel as his daughter. Summoned to the forensic institute to identify the body, she confirms that this man is not her father
L'intruse
Translated title: The Intruder
Author: McFadden, Freida
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 372 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 92199
Translated
Casey's small house, lost deep in the forest, wasn't built to withstand the storm that raged that night. The wind howled, the walls shook... and someone was watching. From her window, Casey saw a young girl, alone. Covered in blood, a knife in her hand, she refused to say who she was or explain what had happened. Despite everything, Casey decided to help her. But as the hours passed, the inconsistencies piled up.
Something didn't add up. And when, in the middle of the night, she made a chilling discovery, it was already too late. Because this young girl was hiding a secret. A secret she was ready to do anything for. And if Casey got too close to the truth, she might never see the sun rise
Répondre à la nuit
Translated title: Answering the Night
Author: Ledig, Agnès
Genre: Thriller / Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 376 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 92210
Settled on a farm on the edge of the Vosges forest, Agnès Ledig draws her inspiration from the animals and plants that surround her. It is there that the stories of Témis, an archer in love with deer, Rémy, a sensitive and protective lumberjack, Maxime, a discreet and passionate audio-naturalist, and Victoire, a caregiver with a magic touch, were born.
By plunging us into the heart of a threatened wilderness, 'Répondre à la nuit' (Answering the Night) pushes us to our limits: how far must we go to defend life? A suspenseful naturalist novel that both unsettles and amazes us
Les yeux de Mona
Translated title: Mona's Eyes
Author: Schlesser, Thomas
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2025 | Pages: 584 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91819
Fifty-two weeks: that's how much time Mona has left to discover all the beauty of the world. It's the time her grandfather, a learned, fascinating, and whimsical man, has given himself to introduce her, every Wednesday after school, to a work of art, before she loses, perhaps forever, the use of her eyes.
Together, they will explore the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Centre Pompidou. Together, they will marvel, be moved, and question, captivated by the sight of a painting or a sculpture.
Borrowing the perspectives of Botticelli, Vermeer, Goya, Courbet, Claudel, Kahlo, and Basquiat, Mona discovers the power of art and learns about talent, doubt, melancholy, and rebellion - a precious treasure her grandfather wishes to instill in her foreve
Mafia Institute
Author: Moress, Ness
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 715 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 92194
She wanted peace. He knows only war. Plume Spencer never had a choice. At eighteen, hypersensitive and broken by an abusive father, she is forced to join the most feared criminal academy. Between manipulation classes, deadly missions, and freezing nights, there's only one objective: to toughen up... or die. But her worst nightmare takes shape when she discovers her partner: Alex Bradford.
Cold, arrogant, ruthless... and heir to the rival family that left his mother in a coma. Between them, hatred is the rule. Yet, behind the threats and provocations, an unexpected tension takes hold. A dangerous, forbidden attraction that could very well lead to their downfall. In a world where loyalty is paid for in blood and weakness is a sentence, Plume fights without armor, with only what she refuses to relinquish as her strength: her humanity.
Be warned, this story is a romantic drama with a tragic ending
Le petit vieux qui a fait le tour du monde (3 fois)
Translated title: The Little Old Man Who Traveled Around the World (3 Times)
Author: Bloom, Léonie
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2026 | Pages: 430 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 92207
The most beautiful encounters are the most unexpected. When seventeen-year-old Zoé reluctantly lands in the small town of Saint-Renan, at the tip of Finistère, she's convinced her life has just come to a standstill. Escaping it becomes her sole obsession.
She dreams of America, wide-open spaces, and adventures... But nothing prepares her for her encounter with Pierre, her ninety-one-year-old neighbor, a former sailor with a strong character.
Between biting remarks, memories of distant ports of call, and unsettling life lessons, Pierre sweeps Zoé away on a thrilling journey through time and emotions for an extraordinary adventure
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
H
Author: Minier, Bernard
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 538 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 92212
Christmas 2025 Collector's Edition H is for... Hirtmann Since the escape of Julian Hirtmann, the most notorious serial killer, Martin Servaz isn't the only one investigating: amateur sleuths on the internet, true crime fans, the star presenter of France's most-watched talk show, a bestselling author - everyone joins the hunt. But when the deadly manhunt is compounded by disappearances reminiscent of one of the biggest criminal and sex scandals of recent decades, terror takes hold.
When reality and fiction become indistinguishable, the worst is yet to come... Bernard Minier has never been so surprising, dark, and provocative
