Roxane Azimi Books

Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid never gave her parents a moment's worry. Until one morning her mother wakes to find that Haley didn't come home the night before. Three months quickly pass without a word, and everyone assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to identify and bring down sexual predators via televised sting operations. Her latest target is Dan Mercer, a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens. But his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. CAUGHT tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realises she can't trust her own instincts about this story - or the motives of the people around her...

Paul Copeland's sister went missing twenty years ago. Now raising a daughter alone, after the death of his wife, Paul - known as Cope - balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything. Is this body one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Cope has to confront so much he left behind that summer so long ago: his first love, Lucy, his mother who abandoned the family, and the secrets that his parents might have been hiding even from their own children. Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to the light. Can he find absolution?

Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered. For the next eight years Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon, he receives an anonymous e-mail telling him to log on to a certain web-site at a certain time, using a code that only he and his wife knew. The screen opens on to a web cam - and it is Elizabeth's image he sees. Is it a practical joke? But as Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive, and what really happened the night she disappeared, the FBI are trying to pin Elizabeth's murder on him. And everyone he turns to seems to end up dead...

Marc Seidman's idyllic world is brutally ripped apart when he is gunned down in his home. Twelve days later he wakes up in hospital to learn that his wife is dead and his baby daughter Tara is missing. A ransom demand is made and agreed to. But something goes terribly wrong. The kidnappers escape, and Marc remembers the ransom note's ominous warning: there will be no second chance. An agonising eighteen months pass with no word. And then, as Marc has just about given up all hope of seeing his daughter again, a package arrives with a note attached: want a second chance? The note is chilling, but Marc sees only one thing: the chance to save his daughter. And, haunted by deception and deadly secrets - about his wife, about an old love, and about his own past - he vows to bring Tara home ... at any cost.

David and Cheryl Burroughs are living the dream - married, a beautiful house in the suburbs, a three year old son named Matthew - when tragedy strikes one night in the worst possible way. David awakes to find himself covered in blood, but not his own - his son's. And while he knows he did not murder his son, the overwhelming evidence against him puts him behind bars indefinitely. Five years into his imprisonment, Cheryl's sister arrives - and drops a bombshell. She's come with a photograph that a friend took on vacation at a theme park. The boy in the background seems familiar - and even though David realizes it can't be, he knows it is. It's Matthew, and he's still alive. David plans a harrowing escape from prison, determined to do what seems impossible - save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened that devastating night. ______________ Praise for Harlan Coben ... 'Unbelievably brilliant' RICHARD OSMAN 'A GREAT writer' JOHN GRISHAM 'Never lets you down' LEE CHILD 'Simply one of the all-time greats' GILLIAN FLYNN 'The modern master of the hook and twist' DAN BROWN 'One of the world's finest thriller writers' PETER JAMES

The school year is almost over. In these last pressure cooker months of high school, some kids will make the all too common and all too dangerous mistake of drinking and driving. But Myron is determined to help keep his friends’ children safe, and so he makes two neighborhood girls promise him that if they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they will call him. Several nights later, the call comes at two a.m. The next day, a girl is missing, and Myron is the last person who saw her. Desperate to fulfill a well-intentioned promise turned horribly wrong, Myron races to find her before she’s gone forever.

A convicted hitman suddenly confesses to a twenty-year-old murder - the slaying of a District Attorney's sister. Why he chose this moment to reveal his secret, he refuses to say... A businessman tries to go on the run from his family home when an old photograph turns up in a new roll of film. A photograph of him as a young man. But on leaving his house, he is immediately snatched by a vicious, trained killer and bundled into the back of a waiting car. These things are linked, but by what, or whom, no one knows. Only that the past is coming back to haunt the present and people are getting hurt...

Un vieil homme est sauvagement assassiné à New York. À ses côtés, une toile de maître disparue depuis vingt ans et une valise portant les inscriptions WHL III. Windsor Horne Lockwood III. Win. Un privé aux méthodes très spéciales, héritier d'une influente famille américaine. Quel lien entre ce crime abject et les Lockwood ? Si le FBI peine à comprendre, Win sait qu'il tient ici la chance de résoudre enfin l'énigme de l'enlèvement de sa cousine, survenu vingt ans plus tôt lors du vol du tableau. Il faut dire qu'il a trois atouts qui manquent au FBI : un lien direct avec l'affaire, une grande fortune et un sens de la justice très personnel...

Voici vingt-deux nouvelles noires, sélectionnées par la romancière de La Nuit du renard, ex-présidente de l'association des « Mystery Writers of America ». Certaines sont l'oeuvre de débutants, d'autres d'écrivains confirmés comme Joyce Carol Oates, Christianna Brand, P. D. James ou Laurence Black... Un chauffeur routier se lance à la poursuite d'un collègue qu'il croit responsable d'une série d'accidents ; un jeune homme étudie le vaudou pour venger la mort de son oncle ; deux garçons rôdent la nuit dans la cité en jouant au mortel « jeu du loup-garou »... Amour devenu haine, confiance trahie, solitude menant au meurtre : il y en a pour toutes les peurs ! Avec un point commun à tous ces récits : un art consommé de la narration et du suspense, qui entraîne le lecteur si irrésistiblement que celui-ci quitte son rôle de spectateur et s'identifie à la victime... ou au coupable !

Un mensonge Une femme qui disparaît Une effrayante machination New York, aujourd'hui. Avocat d'une quarantaine d'années, Adam Price mène une vie aisée et agréable avec son épouse Corinne et leurs deux garçons dans leur pavillon de banlieue cossue. Du moins c'était avant qu'un mystérieux individu lui fasse de troublantes révélations : son épouse adorée lui aurait menti quelques années plus tôt. Depuis, et pour la première fois de sa vie, Adam doute. Confrontée à son passé, Corinne ne se cherche pas d'excuse. Tout ce qu'elle demande, c'est du temps. Pour mieux se volatiliser... Seul avec ses deux fils, craignant pour la vie de Corinne et pour celle de ses enfants, Adam va se lancer dans une course-poursuite de tous les dangers. Quitte à découvrir une face jusqu'ici cachée de celle qu'il croyait pourtant connaître... Mensonges, trahisons, intimidations, un nouveau piège mortel machiavéliquement mis en place par le Boss du thriller.