Télécharger le livre :  The Widow Couderc
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'Sensuously detailed . . . edgy . . . riveting' Financial TimesTwo strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late husband left behind, while trying to keep out of the way of her predatory in-laws....

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Parution : 2023-06-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1
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'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This...

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Parution : 2022-10-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The People Opposite
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'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.'Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Black Sea, he receives only suspicion and hostility from the locals. His...

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Télécharger le livre :  Maigret's Madwoman
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'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'He hadn't seen her arrive. She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Police Judiciaire, where the small staff cars were parked. She ventured as...

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Parution : 2019-10-03

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Télécharger le livre :  This Poison Will Remain
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** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2019-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Maigret's Pickpocket
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'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one could tell from what lay beneath some of his utterances. Yet alongside...

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Parution : 2019-04-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Maigret and the Saturday Caller
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'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily but when the calls suddenly stop Maigret finds a murder on...

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Parution : 2018-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  The Accordionist
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clément Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like an open-and-shut case.Desperate for a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2017-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Maigret's Revolver
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'One of the great psychological novelists of this century' IndependentThey ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it. Through a break in the clouds a little later, Maigret caught a lucky glimpse of the sea, sparkling as if covered in ...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2017-02-02

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Télécharger le livre :  The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
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A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces.'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers'Kees Popinga is a...

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Parution : 2016-11-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Maigret Sets a Trap
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'The most addictive of writers' Observer 'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rosé wine was being served ... Yet a hundred metres further on, the little alleyways were deserted, and the killer might...

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Parution : 2016-03-24

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin
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The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Liège, book ten in the new Penguin Maigret series.In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. A great empty space. Some warmth is still seeps from the...

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Télécharger le livre :  This Night's Foul Work
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On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison. Is there a connection...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-07-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Chalk Circle Man
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Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas’s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series‘The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction’ Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-07-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Three Evangelists
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The opera singer Sophia Siméonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-07-10
Collection : The Three Evangelists
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mahé Circle
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'Powerful . . . unputdownably gripping' Guardian'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas'During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles Dr Mahé caught a glimpse of...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-06-05

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Télécharger le livre :  A Crime in Holland
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'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in its place, like ornaments on the mantlepiece of a careful housewife ....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Dog Will Have His Day
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Shortlisted for the CWA International DaggerHOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A tiny...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-04-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
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‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2013-03-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Library of Unrequited Love
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One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and ignorant public, the strictures of the...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2013-01-13

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