François Guérif Books

Summer, 1954. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems, and neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumours of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? Rumours that hint of drug experimentation, surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing . . . As the investigation deepens, the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped an island from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? Why is there no record of a patient committed just one year before? What really goes on in Ward C? Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards? The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane...

In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother - and himself. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer - author of American Tabloid and White Jazz - tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten - and to reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is an epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.

Jean-Paul Belmondo (* 9. April 1933 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) ist ein französischer Film- und Theaterschauspieler. Belmondo wurde in den späten 1950er Jahren zunächst als einer der wichtigsten Darsteller der Nouvelle Vague bekannt. Ab Mitte der 1960er Jahre war er zwei Jahrzehnte lang als Komödiant und sportlicher Held actionbetonter Filme einer der erfolgreichsten Stars des europäischen Kinos.

Bank Arbaugh, a cop whose daughter has been missing for seven years, and his partner, Mark Steiner, must find a missing teenage girl, and before long, the two cases intersect

Part one of David Peace's 'Tokyo Trilogy', and a stunning literary thriller in its own right, from the bestselling author of GB84 and The Damned Utd.August 1946.

Créatif dans la publicité, Thomas se sent étranger au monde digital et ultra-connecté d'aujourd'hui. Le voyeurisme et le consumérisme qui se sont épanouis dans le sillage d'internet le rebutent, ce qui compromet son avenir professionnel. Mais une mystérieuse officine entend exploiter son inadaptation à la toile pour retrouver « l'inconnu », personnage qui défie l'ordre des choses en vivant totalement en dehors d'internet, et qui a paradoxalement des millions de fans. Comment poursuivre quelqu'un qui n'a rien fait de mal (ni de bien, du reste) ? Comment pister un individu dont le signe distinctif est de n'en avoir aucun, et qui n'apparaît nulle part ? Un individu qui n'existe pas sur internet peut-il encore réellement exister ? Derrière cette mission unique, c'est une véritable quête existentielle qui se profile. L'être humain du XXIe siècle sera-t-il un avatar digital... et immortel?