Ian Rankin
The complaints
Nobody likes The Complaints–they’re the cops who investigate other cops. It’s a department known within the force as “The Dark Side,” and it’s where Malcolm Fox works. He’s a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything. Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There’s a cop named Jamie Breck, and he’s dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there’s more to Breck than anyone thinks–dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.
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Meurtrière ou pas ? Tout en scrutant la jeune veuve, Connor Maguire s’interroge : cette beauté diaphane au regard perdu a-t-elle assassiné son vieux mari, Aristide Pompasse, le plus célèbre peintre de son temps ? Même si nul ne parle encore de crime, lui, Maguire, ancien reporter, sait reconnaître un meurtre. Et le cadavre du peintre ne l’a pas trompé. Si Maguire a commencé à s’intéresser au peintre peu avant sa mort, c’est pour des raisons bassement mercantiles. Mais le voici maintenant poussé par la curiosité, n’hésitant pas à se faire passer pour un assureur et à enquêter discrètement dans la superbe résidence toscane du défunt. Une résidence où Charlie, l’épouse légitime qui a quitté le foyer conjugal plusieurs années auparavant, est revenue pour régler la succession. Entouré des “femmes” du peintre – la vieille favorite, la dernière maîtresse, Charlie -, Maguire cherche à résoudre le mystère de cette mort. Et dans la clarté chaude et ambrée de la campagne toscane, il est prêt à tout pour arriver à ses fins. A tout, y compris à séduire Charlie.
Every secret thing
En anglais – A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa’s pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family’s persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents’ relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.
We need to talk about Ross
En anglais – Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is many things to many people. But ten years after he lifted the Leinster Schools Senior Cup, Ireland’s most beloved rogue remains one of its most misunderstood figures. His accomplishments on the rugby field – and in the bedroom – remain the stuff of legend, but the truth about him remains hidden by the accretion of myth. Now, for the first time, the lid is lifted on the enigma that is South Dublin’s most eligible married man. In more than a hundred interviews with his family and friends – those who’ve loved him, hated him and slept with him – the first ever composite portrait of the Celtic Tiger’s most famous cub emerges. From the mother who didn’t want him to the father who wanted him too much, from the friends who shared his misadventures to the women who shared his bed – or, failing that, a back alley or bus shelter – this searingly honest biography fills in all the blanks in the life of the self-styled Cock of Foxrock.
Arequipa – Pérou, le 12 novembre 1934
Un cow-boy égaré au pays des gardians, un handicapé braqueur de Feria, une veuve de matador au fourneau, des mercenaires du virtuel face aux cornes, un serial-killer… ouvertes par un texte lauréat éblouissant de maîtrise et de concision, dix-sept nouvelles finalistes du Prix Hemingway 2008, dont la variété de tons, de styles et de sujets séduira tous les lecteurs.