L'Homme Marqué (Victor Carl, #6)

"Lashner keeps the reader spellbound."-Harlan Coben New York Times bestselling author William Lashner takes a brief hiatus from his popular series character, lawyer Victor Carl (Hostile Witness, Fatal Flaw, A Killer's Kiss et al), and electrifies with Blood and Bone-a relentlessly exciting standalone thriller. A gripping story of a hard-luck slacker pulled into a deadly conspiracy surrounding the late father he barely knew, it enthralls and surprises on every page. The Washington Post raves: "Lashner is as impressive as anyone writing thrillers today." Blood and Bone is the proof.

Blood and Bone

La femme d'un chef cuisinier français, François Dubé, a été sauvagement assassinée. Son mari, accusé du meurtre et emprisonné, clame son innocence : il contacte le cabinet d'avocats Derringer & Carl pour trouver de nouvelles preuves en sa faveur afin de faire réviser son procès. Le hic, c'est que Victor Carl ne croit pas une seconde à l'innocence de l'arrogant Français - et il faut toute la force de persuasion de son associée Beth, tombée sous le charme de leur client, pour qu'il accepte l'affaire. Comme si Victor n'avait pas d'autres soucis en tête. Toujours célibataire et désargenté, le voilà qui souffre en plus d'une terrible rage de dents. Partagé entre effroi et résignation, il se décide à consulter l'énigmatique "docteur Bob", un dentiste peu orthodoxe, déterminé à faire le bonheur de ses patients. Sur la fiche que doivent remplir ceux qui entrent dans son cabinet, on peut lire notamment la question suivante : "Avez-vous une sexualité satisfaisante ?" Et non content de soigner la dentition ravagée de Victor, ce bon Samaritain décide de le prendre en main - en commençant par lui faire changer de cravate, et en lui présentant une compagne idéale... Victor Carl a-t-il enfin rencontré son ange gardien ?

Rage de dents (Victor Carl, #5)

Dette De Sang (Victor Carl, #4)

It means something to be a client. It means he gets my loyalty, whether he deserves it or not. It means he gets my absolute best for the price of an hourly fee. It means in a world where every person has turned against him there is one person who will fight by his side for as long as there is a battle to be fought.-Victor CarlAuthor of the acclaimed novels Fatal Flaw, Bitter Truth, and Hostile Witness, bestselling writer William Lashner crafts dark, witty, engrossing tales of suspense involving one of the most intriguing characters of modern popular fiction: Victor Carl. A defense attorney who lives his life in shades of gray, Victor Carl fights all the right fights for all the wrong reasons. With a failing legal practice, a dead-end love life, a pile of unpaid traffic tickets, and a talent for mixing it up in tough working-class bars and sparring with obstinate cops, Victor skates on the razor's edge of legal ethics in search of the easy buck. But the one absolute in Victor's life is loyalty, especially to a client-even if he happens to be dead. Like Joey Cheaps, a no-account who takes a knife to the throat down on the waterfront, but not before he shares with his lawyer his part in a terrible crime. With his client murdered, Victor must search for a killer. But solving the crime means investigating the darkest spot in Joey Cheaps's misspent youth, sending Victor on a twisting journey that leads to a missing suitcase stuffed with money, photographs of a mysterious naked woman, and a Supreme Court justice with a secret to hide. And most dangerous of all, Victor steps into the crosshairs of a vengeful enemy with a past full of pain and a taste for blood. As thrilling as it is darkly evocative, Past Due is a superb tale of crime and justice that takes the intrepid Victor Carl into brilliant new territory and confirms William Lashner's place among the top suspense writers of our time.

Past Due

"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing." -- Albert Camus "I suppose every hundred million dollars has its own sordid story and the hundred million I am chasing is no exception..." So begins "Veritas, " William Lashner's riveting follow-up to his bestselling debut novel, "Hostile Witness." Victor Carl--lawyer, loser, hapless hero of "Hostile Witness, " and a Philadelphian way out of his element--has come to the sweat-drenched jungles of Berize to chase his fortune. Finding it is something else entirely.Coerced into defending an unpleasant parade of mob enforcers, two-bit hoods, and other Philadelphian riffraff, Carl wants out of his shabby, squalid life more than ever. So when a terrified young woman offers Carl an unusual--but substantial--proposition, he leaps at the opportunity to trade in his grubby existence for a life of wealthy excess.The job--proving that the recent suicide of wealthy Philadelphian heiress Jacqueline Shaw was not a suicide at all but murder--plunges Carl into an eerie shadow world, where events buried deep in the past exert an awful weight in the present, a world of overturned gravesites, gruesome secrets, and a haunted, lonely estate that houses the broken and dying heirs of a once-powerful family.Simultaneously caught up in an exploding mob war and the machinations of an avaricious cult, Carl realizes too late that he's in way over his head, as he races against time to collect his fee and get out alive. As Carl edges closer to the truth, a truth that is concealed in the mists of a bygone era and now awaits him in the rainforests of Belize, he learns firsthand that the most terrifying darkness crouches not in theheart of the jungle surrounding him but in the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Veritas (Victor Carl, #2)

Rien n'est plus facile - ni plus dangereux - que de se retrouver au lit avec une ancienne maîtresse. Surtout lorsqu'on s'appelle Victor Carl. Jadis, Victor avait été brièvement fiancé à une prénommée Julia - une femme superbe, élégante, exigeante ; bref, pas le genre à finir avec un avocat de seconde zone perpétuellement au bord de la faillite. Victor pensait bien qu'elle l'avait définitivement rayé de sa liste. Or la voilà de retour - talons hauts et rouge à lèvres, traînant dans son sillage un capiteux parfum de danger. Le mari de Julia a été assassiné, ses empreintes digitales sont partout sur la scène du crime, et 1,7 million de dollars en liquide ont disparu. Julia a donc un besoin urgent de renouer avec son ancien amant avocat. De son côté, Victor est bien du genre à douter d'avoir jamais guéri de sa déception amoureuse. Au point de se convaincre lui-même que Julia veut vraiment se racheter, qu'ils pourraient avoir un avenir ensemble, et que les Beatles avaient raison : " All you need is love. " Jusqu'à ce que deux flics débarquent dans son appartement, bien décidés à lui coller le meurtre sur le dos... Après une vie passée à faire les mauvais choix, Victor Cari décide que, cette fois, on ne l'y reprendra plus avec les sentiments : il est temps de penser à sauver sa peau.

Le Baiser du tueur - Occasion

A stained legal career spent defending mob enforcers, two-bit hoods, and other dregs of humanity has left Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl jaded and resentful -- until a new client appears to offer him an escape and a big payday. Caroline Shaw, the desperate scion of a prominent Main Line dynasty, wants him to prove that her sister Jacqueline's recent suicide was, in fact, murder before Caroline suffers a similar fate. It is a case that propels Carl out of his courtroom element and into a murky world of fabulous wealth, bloody family legacies, and dark secrets. Victor Carl would love nothing more than to collect his substantial fee and get out alive. But a bitter truth is dragging him in dangerously over his head, and ever closer to the shattering revelation that the most terrifying darkness of all lies not in the heart of a Central American jungle...but in the twisted soul of man.

L'Homme Marqué (Victor Carl, #6)

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