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Fabrice Pointeau

    Cemetery lake
    22 novembre 1963
    Toyer - a novel of suspense
    Company of Liars
    The Rosary girls
    Joe Victim
    • 2016
    • 2013

      Cemetery lake

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(176)Add rating

      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?

      Cemetery lake
    • 2011

      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.

      Toyer - a novel of suspense
    • 2010

      22 novembre 1963

      • 204 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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.

      22 novembre 1963
    • 2010

      Midsummer's Day, 1348. On this day of ill omen, plague makes its entrance. While panic and suspicion flood the land, a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the breakdown in law and order. When one of their number is found hanging from a tree, the discovery confirms something more sinister than plague in their midst.

      Company of Liars
    • 2005

      The Rosary girls

      • 544 pages
      • 20 hours of reading
      4.0(6314)Add rating

      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.

      The Rosary girls