J'aime votre peur
Translated title: I Like Your Fear
Author: Giebel, Karine
Genre: Short Stories / Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 456 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91810
The queen of noir fiction presents her finest short stories, collected in a beautifully produced volume. Karine Giebel offers a collection of 14 short stories: her best works, representative of the diversity of her oeuvre.
A blend of thriller, suspense, mystery, romance, and social commentary, this collection features unforgettable characters struggling against despair, the darkness of the human soul, and social injustice.
These are powerful stories of life where darkness intertwines with resilience, courage, and the most beautiful expressions of love. An ideal book to discover or rediscover one of the greatest voices in contemporary noir fiction
Douze ans après
Translated title: Twelve Years Later
Author: Gardner, Lisa
Genre: Mystery
Year: 2026 | Pages: 455 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91803
Frankie Elkin vowed to find the missing and forgotten. But she never expected Kaylee Pierson, a death row inmate, to ask her to find her sister, Leilani. She gives her three weeks. Used to challenges, Frankie accepts the mission. Twelve years earlier, five-year-old Leilani disappeared in Hawaii. Now, her trail has been picked up on an atoll an hour's flight from Honolulu, where Kaylee's former boyfriend, now a tech mogul, plans to build a luxury ecolodge.
If she wants to uncover the truth and perhaps save the girl's life, Frankie must infiltrate a remote base camp. The obstacles? The hostility of a few individuals. Countless dangerous secrets. No way to call for help. And a tropical storm on the way
A Shot in the Dark
Author: Lee, Victoria
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 408 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91800
Elisheva Cohen returns to Brooklyn after being rejected by her Orthodox community because of her drug addiction. Wyatt Cole was discharged from the army and disowned by his family after coming out as transgender.
To keep moving forward despite their hardships, they both find refuge in photography: she by returning to her studies, he through his flourishing artistic career. They meet one evening, discover each other, and recognize themselves in their shared pain; the chemistry is undeniable...
... until Ely realizes that Wyatt is her new mentor. This new teacher-student relationship complicates things. Will they be able to overcome the pain of the past? How do you cope when you want what you can't have?
Le peuple des ombres
Translated title: Patel & Pardoe #3 - The Shadow People
Series: Volume 3
Author: Masterton, Graham
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 370 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86875
Translated
Jerry Pardoe and Jamila Patel hunt down a ritualistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals in the new chilling horror from Graham Masterton.
Det. Sgt. Jamila Patel and Det. Con. Jerry Pardoe have reluctantly acquired a reputation in the Metropolitan Police for their ability to tackle bizarre and apparently supernatural crimes. Now they have been called back together after three bodies are found in a London basement... bodies which have been taken apart, roasted and eaten.
The markings on the wall suggest this might have been done by some kind of religious cult -and as more people are kidnapped and cannibalised, Patel and Pardoe realise they are dealing with a group of devil-worshippers invoking an ancient god who has not been worshipped since the Neolithic age
À retardement
Translated title: Delayed
Author: Thilliez, Franck
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 480 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91816
Not all criminals are monsters. But are we ready to accept that? Eléonore Hourdel, a psychiatrist in a unit for difficult patients, receives a new patient. Delusional, undocumented, and unfit for police custody, the man inexplicably pushed a passenger onto the tracks and claims he was 'fleeing from worms.' Fifty kilometers away, Commander Sharko and his team discover the body of Denis Liénard in his home, riddled with screwdriver wounds to the abdomen.
Even more astonishing than this incomprehensible murderous rampage? Forensic technicians find no fingerprints or traces of DNA in the house, not even the victim's. And the mystery deepens when the police identify Eléonore Hourdel as his daughter. Summoned to the forensic institute to identify the body, she confirms that this man is not her father
Maîtresse
Translated title: Mistress
Author: Marra, Valerio
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 289 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91814
Are you ready to step through the doors of a kindergarten? A psychological horror thriller that tells the story of a teacher's descent into hell. You should always be wary of children's drawings...
'Who is that in this drawing? - He's mean. He'll kill me. - What are you saying? You're a child... - He'll kill me. When I grow up.'
When Giulia becomes Teo's teacher, she notices a boy who only communicates with his crayons.
As the days go by, the child's scribbles become increasingly frightening. When Giulia discovers elements that concern her, a slow descent into hell begins
La maison vide
Translated title: The Empty House
Author: Mauvignier, Laurent
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2025 | Pages: 752 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91817
In 1976, my father reopened the house he had inherited from his mother, which had remained closed for twenty years. Inside: a piano, a chest of drawers with a chipped marble top, a Legion of Honor medal, photographs from which a face had been cut out with scissors.
A house filled with stories, where two world wars intersect, along with rural life in the first half of the twentieth century, but also Marguerite, my grandmother, her mother Marie-Ernestine, Marie-Ernestine's mother, and all the men who had been part of their lives.
Each and every one of them had left their mark on the house and had gradually faded away. I tried to bring them back into the light to understand what their story might have been, and how it cast its shadow over our own
Susan: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme
Translated title: Susan: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations
Series: Volume 7
Author: Gagnon, Hervé
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2025 | Pages: 0 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91862
Montreal, May 1895. With the arrival of spring, a preacher as fervent as he is suspicious settles in Saint-Henri-des-Tanneries. Through fiery sermons, he quickly stirs up devout Catholics against Freemasons, whom he blames for all the ills plaguing French-Canadian society. A series of events combine to create an explosive situation: a ghost story terrorizing the residents of Griffintown; the publication of a scandalous book by Jules-Paul Tardivel, a radical ultramontane influenced by the anti-Masonic ravings of the French fabulist Léo Taxil; and the construction of a new building by the Grand Lodge of Quebec on Dorchester Boulevard. The fervent demonstrations encouraged by the preacher spiral out of control and erupt into riots. Meanwhile, Freemasons are murdered and prostitutes are disfigured. Joseph Laflamme, George McCreary, Emma Laflamme and Mary O'Gara investigate - with the help of a ghost no one expected anymore
Le Motesine
Translated title: The Motesine
Author: Jade, Maoh
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 493 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91796
Gabrielle De Luca thought she had escaped her fate. The daughter of a mafia boss, she left Italy to lead an anonymous life in New York with her father's blessing, on one condition: the day he died, she would have to marry his successor.
Convinced she was finally free, her hopes were quickly dashed when, one night, men tried to kidnap her. Rescued by a mysterious stranger, she discovered too late that Tonio Motesine hadn't appeared in her life by chance... and that her savior was anything but innocent.
For Gabrielle's father was no more, and whoever married the Cosa Nostra heiress would have absolute power over the cartel. At the heart of a game of betrayals, fragile alliances, and a ruthless succession war, Tonio was her only protection. Or perhaps, her greatest threat
Les heures fragiles
Translated title: The Fragile Hours
Author: Grimaldi, Virginie
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2025 | Pages: 331 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91822
Diane has always had simple dreams. A husband, two children, a job she loves - it's more than she ever dared hope for. The day Seb leaves her, her world crumbles.
Consumed by her grief, she doesn't see the real drama unfolding elsewhere. Right next to her, in the room across from hers, her daughter's laughter is fading. Lou is sixteen, struggling with growing up, and her first heartbreak is bringing her more than just tears.
When Diane understands, she's ready to do anything to help her. Even return to a past she had fled. Together, mother and daughter walk a tightrope. Beneath their feet, the torrent of life roars, sweeping away their fragile moments
