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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The survivor
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Balade choreïale
Azir : le premier monde habité découvert par l’humanité. Un monde à la technologie balbutiante, divisé en minuscules provinces. Bientôt, les hommes vont arriver en masse, avec leur savoir et leur réalisme économique, et menacer de changer le visage de la planète. Nerbrume, la gouvernante azirie, et Méline, ambassadrice du Conseil de l’humanité, vont-elles réussir à inventer un nouveau mode de coexistence ?
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