Fabrice Pointeau Books

This brawny, hard-edged novel from an emerging star of suspense pits two besieged Philadelphia homicide detectives against a fiercely intelligent and relentlessly brutal serial killer--a monster fueled by a twisted, sacrilegious fury.

In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all—propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.(Length: 17 hours, 40 minutes)

A sadist is stalking beautiful women in Los Angeles to perform surgical operations which leave them in a permanent coma. Reporter Sara Smith tries to find him and he traps her. Will she, too, finish in a coma? A novel based on a play by the author.

Le 22 novembre 1963, une date que le monde n'oubliera pas, celle de l'assassinat de John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A la manière de Short Cuts de Robert Altman, Adam Braver met ici en scène quelques-uns des protagonistes du 22 novembre 1963, premiers rôles et figurants, durant les heures qui précédèrent et suivirent le drame. Le livre s'ouvre avec le départ de Jackie Kennedy pour Dallas, il se referme quelques heures plus tard, lorsque la first lady, désormais veuve, rentre au milieu de la nuit à la Maison-Blanche. Autour de Jackie Kennedy, quelques personnages vont vivre eux aussi une journée très particulière : un tailleur de Dallas, dont le nom et le film amateur vont ensuite faire le tour du monde, un médecin de l'hôpital Parkland, qui ne se doute pas en se levant qu'il va faire quelques heures plus tard l'autopsie du corps du Président, le personnel de la Maison-Blanche en charge des enfants du couple, etc. Entrelaçant la grande et les petites histoires qui, dans ce contexte, prennent un poids très particulier, Adam Braver nous fait littéralement entrer dans l'intimité des acteurs du drame. S'attachant à l'aspect humain, il nous permet de poser un regard complètement neuf et poignant sur cette tragédie qui continue de marquer tous les esprits. Servi par une écriture magnifique de précision et par une construction ensorcelante, il nous offre un roman hypnotique.

What began as a routine exhumation of a suspected murder victim quickly turns complicated for private investigator Theodore Tate... Theo Tate is barely coping with life since his world was turned upside down two years ago. As he stands in the cold and rainy cemetery, overseeing the exhumation, the lake opposite the graveyard begins to release its grip on the murky past. When doubts are raised about the true identity of the body found in the coffin, the case takes an even more sinister turn. Tate knows he should walk away and let his former colleagues in the police deal with it, but against his better judgement he takes matters into his own hands. With time running out and a violent killer on the loose, will Tate manage to stay one step ahead of the police? Or will the secrets he has buried so deeply be unearthed?