Published at
The king of ashes, S.A. Cosby
Table of Contents
SA Cosby is one of our favorite thriller authors, since we discovered him with Anger. After The blood of the innocenthere he is again in a small town in Virginia where Roman’s character decides to return when his father is the victim of a strange road accident. But his native town is now plagued by poverty, drugs and extreme violence. A completely stunning noir novel.
The King of Ashes
Sonatine
405 pages
If cats could talkPiergiorgio Pulixi
Cagliari bookseller Marzio Montecristo tours Sardinia on a cruise in this second part of the series, which follows on from The Black Cats Bookstore. With Inspector Caruso, who is considering joining his “Tuesday Investigators” book club, he must confound a murderer convinced of having committed the perfect crime. A tribute to Agatha Christie that will appeal to lovers of mystery novels… and cats.
If cats could talk
Gallmeister
330 pages
A white calmRagnar Jónasson
After Death in whitehere is a new investigation by Inspector Helgi signed by the man nicknamed the master of Icelandic crime fiction. When a writer famous for her detective novels disappears, Helgi must penetrate her world and her flawless image as a queen of crime to discover the truth. But the affair forces him to confront his own darkness.
A white calm
La Martinière
366 pages
GangnamIan Manook
Behind the pseudonym Ian Manook, the French novelist Patrick Manoukian took us on a journey to Mongolia with investigator Yeruldelgger, then to Iceland with his counterpart Kornelius Jakobsson. This time, he takes us to South Korea, where Inspector Park teams up with a former mafia police officer to find a tourist kidnapped in Seoul. With the same caustic and slightly mocking tone that has become his signature.
Gangnam
Flammarion Quebec
400 pages
The shameArttu Tuominen
The Finnish author of Oath navigates here between the police investigation and the family drama. In the small Finnish town of Pori, a teenage girl disappears without a trace. When crime squad inspector Linda Toivonen looks into the case, which reveals other similar disappearances, linked to a predator and a worrying online network, she comes to fear the worst for her own daughter.
The shame
La Martinière
419 pages
Hide and seekSøren Sveistrup
Highly recommended by Chrystine Brouillet on the show There will always be culturethis is the second title from Danish writer and screenwriter Søren Sveistrup (creator of the series The Killing). Disappearances, harassment and perverse games are hidden behind this imposing pavement with multiple ramifications, where the duo of investigators formed by Mark Hess and Naia Thulin must curb a terrible revenge.
Hide and seek
Albin Michel
700 pages
Rosa & BjörkThe fairy tale Rämö
Satu Rämö is a young author born in Finland and who lives in Iceland – where she sets her thrillers. It takes us to the small town of Ísafjörður, shaken by the murder of a local politician. Assisted by her Finnish trainee, inspector Hildur Rúnarsdóttir tackles the case, hoping at the same time to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her sisters, 25 years earlier.
Rosa & Björk
Threshold
427 pages
Black RiverNilanjana S. Roy
This thriller written by an Indian journalist has received praise from numerous Anglo-Saxon newspapers, including the Guardian. From Delhi to Faridabad, he makes us discover India differently, alongside inspector Ombir Singh, who must investigate the murder of a child. And in a tense context between the Hindu and Muslim communities, time is running out to prevent an innocent person from paying the price for this crime.
Black River
Dawn
409 pages
8.2 secondsMaxime Chattam
The newspaper Liberation spoke of it as a “very great thriller”. Breathtaking. The French novelist sets his new thriller just south of the Canadian-American border. At the heart of the story, two women whose destinies will intersect: one takes refuge in her chalet after a tragedy, the other is a police officer in New York and investigates a bloody assassination.
8.2 seconds
Albin Michel
391 pages
The house of silencesDonato Carrisi
Child psychologist – and hypnosis specialist – Pietro Gerber is back in this new psychological thriller from Donato Carrisi that mixes reality and the supernatural. When the expert tries to cure a boy’s nightmares, he realizes that his visions hold clues to an unsolved crime and will have to confront his own demons in order to save innocent people.
The house of silences
Calmann-Lévy
296 pages
