Isabelle Maillet Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Printemps 1728. On traîne un homme jeune, bien habillé, dans les rues de Londres, jusqu'à la potence de Tyburn. A son passage, la foule le raille, le traitant de meurtrier. Thomas Hawkins essaie de rester calme. Il est innocent. Et il doit le prouver avant que la corde ne lui serre le cou. Il sait, bien sûr, que tout est de sa faute. Il était si heureux avec Kitty Sparks. Pourquoi s'est-il mis à fréquenter le criminel le plus dangereux de Londres ? Pourquoi avoir offert son aide à Henrietta Howard, la maîtresse du roi, dans sa lutte désespérée face à un mari brutal et impétueux prêt à tout pour servir ses intérêts ? Et, surtout, pourquoi avoir accordé sa confiance à la reine Caroline, cette femme pleine d'esprit, qui se révèle une redoutable calculatrice ?

From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller. Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story of one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successful rum runner, and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved. He is indeed, “a master” (Philadelphia Inquirer) whose “true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler” (Baltimore Sun). And, “Boy, does he know how to write” (Elmore Leonard).

'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?''Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious d

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again. The disappearance of little Amanda was the case that troubled Kenzie and Gennaro more than any other. Still haunted by their consciences, they must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart—following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, right up to the doorstep of a dangerously unstable crime boss and his demented wife. Once again Patrick and Angie will be putting everything that matters to them on the line in pursuit of the answer to the burning question: Is it possible to do the right thing and still be dead wrong?

Roman policier

La famille Lucas vit dans le nord du Wisconsin, belle terre oubliée peuplée d'ouvriers européens immigrés et d'Indiens ojibwés. En 1967, le père, John Lucas, miné par l'alcool, laisse leur ferme se délabrer et s'acharne violemment contre sa femme et ses deux fils ; l'aîné, James, fuit les coups en écoutant Elvis et s'engage dans les marines. Il est dirigé vers les jungles de guerre vietnamiennes. Bill, le cadet, reste pour protéger sa mère, guidé seulement par l'esprit de son frère. Heureusement, dans la ferme voisine, les Morriseau veillent sur lui et le soutiennent pendant le périlleux passage de l'enfance à l'âge d'homme. Les enfants ont un tel instinct de survie, nous dit Mary Relindes Ellis dans ses descriptions magnifiques des paysages du Midwest américain, qu'ils trouvent dans la nature ce que leur environnement familial leur dénie. Et comme les anciens Ojibwés le savent depuis longtemps, ils y trouvent aussi la sagesse et la clairvoyance. Mary Relindes Ellis signe ici un premier roman étonnant, obsédant, lyrique et rédempteur dans la lignée d'un Sherwood Anderson ou d'un Russell Banks.

In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

Pilgrim, is the story of a man who cannot die. Ageless, sexless, deathless and timeless, Pilgrim has inhabited endless lives and times. On April 15, 1912 - ironically, the date of the sinking of the Titanic - Pilgrim fails, once again, to commit suicide, his heart miraculously beginning again, five hours after he is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to the Burgholzi Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, by his dear friend Lady Sybil Quartermaine, Pilgrim - at first, stubbornly mute - begins a battle of psyche and soul with Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious and slave to his own sexual appetites. Poring over Pilgrim's journals in his quest to penetrate his patient's armour of silence, Jung is both confounded and shaken by the extraordinary revelations of other existences. Pilgrim is a richly-layered story of a man's search for his own destiny - superbly crafted, breathtaking in scope and brilliantly imagined.