Evelyne Châtelain Books

J.M. Barrie is the Scottish writer who captures children's hearts worldwide with the memorable Peter Pan. This book, entitled My Lady Nicotine is humorous as well, though in a very different ways. A collection of hilarious tales concerning one man's attempts to giving up smoking. It includes tales of these attempts, and his general meditations and observations on smoking. They teach through humor, satire and parody, shunning the moralizing anti-smoking polemic of our day, which is not nearly as effective as humor. "I am much better without tobacco, and already have difficulty in sympathizing with the man I used to be," Barrie says on the opening pages. The tale of his struggle follows.

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat gets more mystery than she imagined when she arrives at her latest crime scene. The body of an unidentified woman has been found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left sitting on a Manhattan street. A startling enough death, but an even bigger shock comes when this new homicide surprisingly connects to the unsolved murder of Detective Heat's own mother. The gruesome killing of this Jane Doe launches Heat on a dangerous and emotional investigation, rekindling the cold case that has haunted her since she was nineteen. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she also digs into unexplored areas of her mother's background-areas Nikki has been afraid to confront before, but now must. Facing relentless danger as someone targets her for the next kill, Heat's search will unearth painful family truths, expose a startling hidden life, and cause Nikki to reexamine her own past. Heat's passionate quest takes her and Rook from the back alleys of Manhattan to the avenues of Paris, trying to catch a ruthless killer. The question is, now that her mother's cold case has unexpectedly thawed, will Nikki Heat finally be able to solve the dark mystery that has been her demon for ten years?

Le corps d'un magnat de l'immobilier est découvert au pied de son immeuble de Manhattan. Visiblement, quelqu'un lui a donné un coup de pouce pour qu'il fasse le grand saut... Dans le même temps, sa ravissante épouse au passé obscur échappe de justesse à une agression. Dans la fournaise new-yorkaise, les esprits s'échauffent, les passions se déchaînent. Un autre meurtre entraîne la police dans le monde opaque de l'immobilier, des paris, de l'argent douteux. Un univers où le secret et le silence font la loi. Mais Nikki Heat est là pour mettre de l'ordre dans cette sale affaire. Malgré la présence imposée d'un journaliste fort encombrant (mais charmant), l'enquêtrice de choc va découvrir un à un tous les secrets du mort, un flambeur et joli cœur qui ne manquait pas d'ennemis. Des secrets que pas mal de monde aurait préféré oublier...