Edward Chisholm was born in Dorset, England, and moved to Paris in 2012 where he worked all manner of low-paid jobs, from waiting and bar work to museum security and market hand, while trying to build a career as a writer. His memoir, A Waiter in Paris, has sold over 100,000 copies and has been […]
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Eva Jurczyk was born in a mining town in Poland and wound up halfway around the world in a Canadian city that often masquerades as New York in the movies. As her day job, she buys books, building library collections for the University of Toronto Libraries. She travels to Paris whenever the wind is good […]
Writer and screenwriter, ex-lieutenant in the Paris banlieues, Olivier Norek is the author of seven widely acclaimed international best-selling novels. They have sold 3 million copies in France alone, won over twenty prestigious literary prizes and been translated in more than 20 languages. His novel Between Two Worlds was The Times and Sunday Times “Crime […]
Nicholas Shakespeare is a novelist and biographer. His books include The Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs (adapted for film by John Malkovich in 2001), Inheritance, Priscilla, Six Minutes in May, and acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin and Ian Fleming. His most recent thriller featuring John Dyer […]
From the acclaimed author of A Waiter in Paris comes a captivating true crime story about an unsolved murder in 1960s Paris that scandalized a nation. October 1968. When a body discovered on the outskirts of Paris was identified as Stefan Marković, a former bodyguard and friend of the international film star Alain Delon, what […]
From the bestselling author of The Boat People comes a page-turning moral drama about money, the dark side of philanthropy, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons. They have the best of intentions. What could go wrong? Claire Talbot is the publicist at Children of the World, […]
“Sophie Hénaff lance une nouvelle série aussi savoureuse qu’hilarante.” Avantages Les célébrités? Des victimes comme les autres, ou presque… Une nouvelle série signée Sophie Hénaff, l’autrice des célèbres Poulets grillés ! Automne 2024. Une vague de cambriolages de plus en plus violents touche les célébrités. À la PJ de Paris, Cathy Martini et sa brigade […]
After their successful solving of three cold cases and exposing corruption at the very highest level of the Paris police force, Anne Capestan’s squad of misfits and no-hopers should be in a celebratory mood. However, now despised by their colleagues at 36 quai des Orfèvres and worried for their future, morale has never been lower […]
Officer Anne Capestan”s team of misfits will have to work together to investigate a decades-old unsolved murder . . . and in the process uncover a trail of corruption that leads to the top of the Paris police force. Was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? […]
Welcome to the NOVA Prize gala dinner, where one Nova Scotian author will go home with the $100,000 grand prize… unless they don’t go home at all… Val Jenkins is stuck. A journalist for the Halifax Post, she’s been writing a local books column for over a decade. But ever since she was a precocious […]
From the award-winning author of The Hole, a “Simmering” (New York Times Book Review) and “Compelling” (Wall Street Journal ) thriller—”A mystery masterpiece . . . Hye-young Pyun at her best” (Books & Bao), named a “Best International Crime Novel of 2020” (CrimeReads) and selected as one of “Our 65 Favorite Books of the Year” […]
A compulsively readable and razor-sharp campus novel about the impact of power and consent in a university setting Perfect for fans of Cho Nam-joo, I May Destroy You, and If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio. Riveting and uncompromising, Another Person explores the long-lasting consequences of the sexism and misogyny fostered in universities. Vacuum […]
From #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham, “the reigning queen of Canadian historical fiction” (Kristen Harmel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a dazzling novel set at an elegant hotel in Toronto in 1929 about a young chambermaid, a handsome waiter, and a murder that will reverberate for a century. Welcome to the Dominion, where […]
A movie censor murdered, a leading lady vanished—the glamour, romance, and intrigue of the beginnings of Bollywood come to vivid life in the thrilling new installment of the Perveen Mistry historical mystery series. India, 1922: Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, has secured her biggest client yet: Champa Films, a movie studio run […]
The fifth instalment in the Priscilla Tempest mystery series, set in the glamorous world of 1960s London high society. It’s midnight at the Savoy Hotel, and the doorman notices a Rolls-Royce parked in a spot where it shouldn’t be. In the back seat is a man who is, most regrettably, dead—clutching a love note addressed […]
In turn-of-the-century California, two Japanese amateur detectives uncover the dark underbelly of their multicultural city—from the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author of Clark and Division. Pasadena, 1903: Eighteen-year-old Ryunosuke “Ryui” Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, Japan, ready to reinvent himself after the untimely deaths of his parents. Though battling loneliness and culture shock, […]
Fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons struggling to keep inmates inside and escapees desperate to get out. A convict who returned to the prison he had recently escaped from in a vain attempt to foment a mass breakout; a murderer on the run who veered from folk hero to persona non grata after […]
A final reckoning… With the fate of her missing sister, Ísafold, finally uncovered, Áróra feels a fragile relief as the search that consumed her life draws to a close. But when Ísafold’s boyfriend – the prime suspect in her disappearance – is found dead at the same site where Ísafold’s body was discovered, Áróra’s grip […]
In this zen and zany crime debut, a shady lawyer transforms his life through mindfulness—and uses his newfound techniques to kill his way to the top. Original series now streaming on Netflix. Criminal defense lawyer Björn Diemel has been given an ultimatum: repair his work-life balance, or his wife will leave him—and take their daughter. […]
The remarkable, true story of an unusual childhood, complete with gangsters, guns, diamonds, drug smuggling, and fraud—just like any other little girl’s life. At twelve years old, Leslie Bradford-Scott watched police cars swarm her family’s suburban home in Ontario. Hours later, she, her mom, and her grandmother were fleeing across the border into Florida with […]
The Agnes Sharp mystery series ends with a bang in this explosive finale from the author of Three Bags Full. The octogenarian housemates at Sunset Hall are busy preparing for the wedding of one of their own, the blind and blushing bride Bernadette, but as the big day approaches, they must fend off a mysterious […]
Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream. Post-war Riverton has little to offer Richard, a mild-mannered loner working a dead-end job at Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company. When he meets Marlon, a smooth-talking confidence man, Richard finds his partner in […]
Twenty-three years ago, a young woman was murdered on the Swedish island of Lidingö. The island has kept its silence. Until now… As autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenaged boys are murdered. Their bodies are left deep […]
Hank Idsinga, whose grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust, became the country’s leading homicide detective; he shares his insights into tracking down murderers and serial killers over his colourful and decorated thirty-year career. From the age of ten, Hank Idsinga knew he wanted to become a homicide detective, when he learned that his grandfather had […]
