Coffret en 2 volumes : Un dernier verre avant la guerre ; Ténèbres, prenez-moi la main

Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream.Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one - neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover - can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spellbinding tour de force of betrayal and redemption, music and murder, that brings fully to life a bygone era when sin was cause for celebration and vice was a national virtue.

Ils vivent la nuit

Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous, drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back. Despite enormous public attention, rabid news coverage, and dogged police work, the investigation repeatedly hits a brick wall. Led into a world of drug dealers, child molesters, and merciless executioners, Patrick and Angie are soon forced to face not only the horrors adults can perpetrate on innocents but also their own conflicted feelings about what is best, and worst, when it comes to raising children. And as the Indian summer fades and the autumn chill deepens, Amanda McCready stays gone, banished so completely that she seems never to have existed.Then another child disappears. . . . Dennis Lehane takes you into a world of triple crosses, elaborate lies, and shrouded motives, where the villains may be more moral than the victims, the missing should possibly stay missing, and those who go looking for them may not come back alive.Settle in and turn off the phone. From its haunting opening to its shocking climax, Gone, Baby, Gone is certain to be one of the most thrilling, talked-about suspense novels you read this year.

Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro #4)

Lorsqu'il découvre un chiot blessé dans une poubelle, il est loin d'imaginer qu'il va devenir la cible du propriétaire de l'animal, un déséquilibré nommé Eric Deeds. Toutefois, les menaces de Deeds ne sont rien comparées à la mafia tchétchène qui fait désormais la loi dans le quartier. Depuis que Chovka s'est emparé du bar de Marv, impossible pour Bob d'ignorer les trafics qui s'y déroulent. Surtout quand les livraisons qui transitent par le bar (devenu un « money drop » pour les gangsters) suscitent la curiosité de l'inspecteur Torres et la convoitise de petits malfrats prêts à tout pour empocher quelques milliers de dollars...

Quand vient la nuit

Paperback edition of the latest standalone novel from the acclaimed crime author, whose books include }Shutter Island{, }Gone, Baby, Gone{ and }The Given Day{. Set in the prohibition era of 1920s America, it follows a small-town thief who becomes a feared and respected gangster

Live By Night

Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, Darkness, Take My Hand, got the kind of high octane reviews that careers are made of. Now Lehane not only survives the dreaded third-book curse, he beats it to death with a stick. Sacred is a dark and dangerous updating of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, as dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires Kenzie and Gennaro to find his daughter, Desiree. Patrick's mentor, a wonderfully devious detective named Jay Becker, has already disappeared in St. Petersburg, Florida, while working the case, so the two head there to pick up a trail. Desiree, of course, is nothing like the sweet and simple beauty described by her father, and even Chandler would have been amazed by the plot twists that Lehane manages to keep coming.

Sacré (Kenzie & Gennaro #3)

Patrick Kenzie est toujours détective privé à Boston, mais il s'est séparé de sa fidèle coéquipière, Angela Gennaro. 
Lorsque Karen, une jeune femme victime de harcèlement, a recours a ses services, il règle rapidement le problème et pense ne plus en entendre parler. Jusqu'au jour où il apprend que Karen s'est jetée du vingt-sixième étage d'une tour. Il semble qu'une invraisemblable succession de malheurs ait poussé à bout la jeune femme... Mais  Patrick ne croit pas à une telle série de coïncidences et, confronté à un tueur qui ne tombe sous le coup d'aucune loi, il va avoir besoin de l'aide d'Angela. Avec ce cinquième épisode de la saga Kenzie-Gennaro, Dennis Lehane confirme son statut d'auteur de best-sellers.

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Journaliste en pleine ascension, Rachel Childs s'effondre en direct devant des millions de téléspectateurs. C'est le début de la chute. En peu de temps, elle perd tout : son emploi, son conjoint, sa vie idéale. En fait, peut-être pas si idéale que cela. Rachel avait une mère manipulatrice, quant à son père, elle ne l'a jamais connu. C'est en cherchant à en savoir plus sur ses origines qu'elle croise la route de Brian Delacroix. Un homme qui va tout faire basculer...

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