A child claims his mother is an imposter - but only one person believes him. Nothing is as fragile as the memory of a child... Malone, a child barely four years old, starts to claim that his mother isn't his real mum. It seems impossible: his mother has birth certificates, photos of him as a child and even the paediatrician confirms this is her child. The school psychologist is the only one who believes him. Desperate to find out the truth, he approaches Marianne Augresse, a police captain with better things to do with her time: hot on the heels of a a major criminal, she doesn't think the wild fantasies of a child are something she should worry about. But what if she's wrong?
3814 Руб.
On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one rich, the other poor, step forward to claim her, sparking an investigation that will last for almost two decades. Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Eighteen years later, having failed to discover the truth, private detective Credule Grand-Duc plans to take his own life, but not before placing an account of his investigation in the girl's hands. But, as he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger, he uncovers a secret that changes everything - then is killed before he can breathe a word of it to anyone . . .
2052 Руб.
Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille. Her quiet life as a well-integrated immigrant is suddenly shaken when her beautiful eldest daughter, Bamby, becomes the main suspect in two murders linked to a lethal illegal immigration racket. Is Bamby really involved? And why is everyone desperate to get their hands on Leyli's mysterious red notebook?
4389 Руб.
Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille. Her quiet life as a well-integrated immigrant is suddenly shaken when her beautiful eldest daughter, Bamby, becomes the main suspect in two murders linked to a lethal illegal immigration racket. Is Bamby really involved? And why is everyone desperate to get their hands on Leyli's mysterious red notebook?
1974 Руб.
Michel Bussi is one of Frances most ingenious crime writers... has plenty of twists and turns in store in this fast-moving novel about a long-planned act of revenge Joan Smith, SUNDAY TIMES Takes the reader on a thrilling ride across the remote isle in the Indian Ocean with plenty of twists and turns to keep them gripped until an epic, unexpected conclusion Jon Coates, DAILY EXPRESS Picture the scene - an idyllic resort on the island of Reunion. Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water, palm trees, a warm breeze... Then Liane Bellion disappears. She went up to her hotel room between 3 and 4pm and never came back. When the room is opened, it is empty, but there is blood everywhere. An employee of the hotel claims to have seen Martial in the corridor during that crucial hour. Then Martial also disappears, along with his daughter. An all-out manhunt is declared across the island. But is Martial really his wifes killer? And if he isnt, why does he appear to be so guilty? Some writers try carefully calibrated alternations on a winning formula from book to book, but offer few surprises. That cant be said of the French author Michel Bussi... That refusal to repeat himself is evident in Dont Let Go, which is just as accomplished as its predecessors - GUARDIAN As it draws towards its heart-pounding final pages, its hard to concentrate on anything other than the outcome of the desperate manhunt - and the startling revelation of the truth. Inventive, original and incredibly entertaining SUNDAY MIRROR
723 Руб.
Michel Bussi is one of Frances most ingenious crime writers... has plenty of twists and turns in store in this fast-moving novel about a long-planned act of revenge Joan Smith, SUNDAY TIMES Takes the reader on a thrilling ride across the remote isle in the Indian Ocean with plenty of twists and turns to keep them gripped until an epic, unexpected conclusion Jon Coates, DAILY EXPRESS Picture the scene - an idyllic resort on the island of Reunion. Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water, palm trees, a warm breeze... Then Liane Bellion disappears. She went up to her hotel room between 3 and 4pm and never came back. When the room is opened, it is empty, but there is blood everywhere. An employee of the hotel claims to have seen Martial in the corridor during that crucial hour. Then Martial also disappears, along with his daughter. An all-out manhunt is declared across the island. But is Martial really his wifes killer? And if he isnt, why does he appear to be so guilty? Some writers try carefully calibrated alternations on a winning formula from book to book, but offer few surprises. That cant be said of the French author Michel Bussi... That refusal to repeat himself is evident in Dont Let Go, which is just as accomplished as its predecessors - GUARDIAN As it draws towards its heart-pounding final pages, its hard to concentrate on anything other than the outcome of the desperate manhunt - and the startling revelation of the truth. Inventive, original and incredibly entertaining SUNDAY MIRROR
723 Руб.
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq. The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame. But, his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worst of all, he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime, involving none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq...
2605 Руб.
Une fillette de onze ans surdouee pour la peinture, une institutrice redoutablement seduisante et une vieille femme aux yeux de hibou qui sait et voit tout constituent le point de depart de l'intrigue. A Giverny, Jerome Morval, chirurgien ophtalmologiste, enfant du pays, a ete retrouve assassine pres de la riviere de l'Epte. Pour Laurent Salignac, fraichement debarque de l'ecole de police de Toulouse, le suspect est tout designe: il s'agit de Jacques Dupain, mari de la belle institutrice, Stephanie. Cette affaire ferait-elle echo a l'assassinat du petit Albert Rosalba, retrouve mort dans les memes circonstances en 1937 ? La vieille femme qui sait et voit tout, narratrice a ses heures, guide le lecteur dans ses deambulations a Giverny et, a petites touches, se confie : elle seule detient la verite. Mais quelle verite ? Car dans le reflet d'une toile de maitre d'exception, Les Nympheas, passe et present se confondent, meurtres et passions ressuscitent quand jeunesse et mort defient le temps...
1463 Руб.
Jamal loves to run. But one morning - as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff - he stumbles across a woman in distress. It's a matter of seconds: suddenly she is falling through the air, crashing on the beach below. Jamal is only an unlucky bystander - or is he? His version of events doesn't seem to fit with what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen. And how to explain the red scarf carefully arranged around the dead woman's neck? Perhaps this was no accident after all. Or perhaps there is something more sinister afoot - a devilish plan decades in the making, masterminded by someone hell-bent on revenge.
2230 Руб.
A Yport, parti courir sur la plus haute falaise d’Europe, Jamal a d’abord remarque l’echarpe, rouge, accrochee a une cloture. Puis la femme, incroyablement belle, la robe dechiree, le dos face au vide, les yeux rives aux siens. Jamal lui tend l’echarpe comme on tend une bouee. Quelques secondes plus tard, sur les galets glaces de la plage deserte, git le corps inerte de l’inconnue. A son cou, l’echarpe rouge. Tout le monde pense qu’il l’a poussee. Il voulait simplement la sauver. C’est la version de Jamal. Le croyez-vous ? « Avec son habilete de mecano, le romancier fait mouche. » Marianne Payot – L’Express
1463 Руб.
Suspense, manipulation et anticipation... Jours tranquilles aux Tuamotu. Sur une ile privee de l’archipel polynesien, une poignee de retraites savourent leur vieillesse a la plage. Quand soudain une voile se profile a l’horizon… C’est la mort qui approche, sous les traits d’un mysterieux tueur blond. Du jamais-vu pour le commandant Artem Akinis et son equipe. Dans cette democratie idyllique et sans frontieres qu’est devenu le monde, alors qu’a tout instant on sait ou chacun est et va, que signifie un tel crime ? Commence alors, de Rio a la jungle birmane, jusqu’aux confins de l’Himalaya, une course contre la montre ou aucune aiguille ne semble tout a fait a sa place…
2615 Руб.
A bientot 16 ans, Colin est un orphelin auquel il manque des pans entiers de son histoire. En retournant sur Mornesey, l’ile qui l’a vu naitre, l’adolescent compte bien combler cette memoire amputee. C’est ici, entre le phare des Enchaines et les ruines de l’abbaye Saint-Antoine, qu’il va croiser la silhouette qui bousculera toutes ces certitudes – figure familiere et inconnue. Ce fantome serait-il son pere ? Lui aurait-on menti toute sa vie ? Car les secrets pullulent sur cette ile de brigands. Des secrets pour lesquels on tue. Et Colin semble etre au c?ur de chacun d’entre eux. Un sans-famille au sang maudit… « Ce roman en huis clos fonctionne comme la cle des songes de l’univers de Bussi. » Le Point « Une intrigue palpitante et implacable. » La Voix du Nord
1463 Руб.
A superbly produced retrospective on the luminous career of Jean-Michel Basquiat The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once accidentally leaving a portfolio of about 2,000 drawings on a subway car) in the space of just eight years. Through his street roots in graffiti, Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for figurative and expressionistic painting, breaking the white male stranglehold of Conceptual and Minimal art, and foreshadowing, among other tendencies, Germany's Junge Wilde movement. It was not only Basquiat's art but also the details of his biography that made his name legendary--his early years as "Samo" (his graffiti artist moniker), his friendships with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Madonna and his tragically early death from a heroin overdose. This superbly produced retrospective publication assesses Basquiat's luminous career with commentary by, among others, Glenn O'Brien, and 160 color reproductions of the work. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother and a Haitian father--an ethnic mix that meant young Jean-Michel was fluent in French, Spanish and English by the age of 11. In 1977, at the age of 17, Basquiat took up graffiti, inscribing the landscape of downtown Manhattan with his signature "Samo." In 1980 he was included in the landmark group exhibition The Times Square Show; the following year, at the age of 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist ever to be invited to Documenta. By 1982, Basquiat had befriended Andy Warhol, later collaborating with him; Basquiat was much affected by Warhol's death in 1987. He died of a heroin overdose on August 22, 1988, at the age of 27.
7456 Руб.
The fifth book in Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet saga tells the fascinating story of the hatred between two queens The first half of the thirteenth century is dominated by two women, as proud and ambitious as they were beautiful, yet different in all other qualities. Isabella, flamboyant and passionate, a medieval Helen of Troy - wife to King John and mother to Henry III... Blanche of Castile, serene and virtuous Queen of France, wife of Louis VIII and mother of Louis IX... The two women hated each other on sight. Isabella would stop at nothing, not even murder, in her passion to destroy the French Queen...
2865 Руб.
Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself; at the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death; his years of service to the state and the riddle of his daughter's behaviour.
2611 Руб.
I thought I was done with death, at least a little bit, but death wasn’t done with me. It’s always been Tiger and her mother against the world. Then, on a day like any other, Tiger’s mother dies. Now it’s Tiger, alone. And she must learn to make friends with the dark.
1693 Руб.