La première série télé tirée d’un scénario original d’Harlan Coben sera diffusée au Royaume-Uni à partir du 15 avril 2016 sur la chaîne Sky, annonce faite via la page facebook de l’auteur. Si la date de diffusion en France n’a pas encore été précisée, la série fait désormais partie du catalogue de Studiocanal !
Les premières images ainsi qu’une interview d’Harlan Coben disponibles dans cette vidéo de Sky 1.
THE LAST MILE est le deuxième volet de la nouvelle série de David Baldacci, où l’on retrouve l’agent FBI Amos Decker de MEMORY MAN, publié il y a un an par Grand Central Publishing.
Decker returns in a spectacular new thriller…
THE LAST MILE
(Amos Decker series #2)
by David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, April 2016
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution—for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier—when he’s granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime.
Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars’ case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men’s families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth.
The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars—guilty or not—a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now?
But when a member of Decker’s team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger—and more sinister—than just one convicted criminal’s life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.
David Baldacci made a big splash on the literary scene with the publication of his first novel, ABSOLUTE POWER, in 1996. A major motion picture adaptation followed, with Clint Eastwood as its director and star. In total, David has published 27 novels, all of which have been national and international bestsellers; several have been adapted for film and television. His novels have been translated into more than 45 languages and sold in more than 80 countries; over 110 million copies are in print worldwide. David has also published four novels for children. He has received numerous accolades for his writing; most recently, he was inducted into the International Crime Writing Hall of Fame and received the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.
Le roman d’Helen Philips est sélectionné pour le prochain prix littéraire du Los Angeles Times, catégorie fiction. Publié en août 2015, THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT a attiré l’attention de la presse américaine et notamment du New York Times. Safarà Editore le publiera en Italie et les droits télé ont été acquis par The CW.
Josephine must race to find her way through the labyrinthine bureaucracy, in order to save herself and to salvage the life she’s built
THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT
by Helen Phillips
Henry Holt, August 2015
Josephine has been out of work a long time, so when she is hired to work in a vast, windowless building, doing what at first appears to be a monotonous filing and cross-checking task, she’s mostly just relieved that her long period of unemployment has come to an end. Never mind that the person who hired her seems not to have a face and becomes known only as The Person With Bad Breath, or that Josephine works in a pale, airless room where the walls are completely bare, save some scratches Josephine fears may have come from those who held the job before her. She can endure any job in order to be able to build a future with her husband, Joseph. Under the watchful eyes of her sinister boss and an aggressively friendly coworker, she matches names to numbers and enters both into a seemingly infinite database, though she knows nothing about the true nature of her job nor the identity of the institution that employs her.
In the evenings, Josephine returns home to one of a series of strange sublets, and to Joseph, who often greets her with candles and dinner, until one day he doesn’t come home at all. Joseph also has a bureaucratic job, and the two have agreed never to discuss their work, but as Joseph grows mysteriously distant and begins to disappear more frequently without explanation, and as Josephine slowly comes to understand the meaning of the codes she’s entering into the system, the rituals of their daily lives shift from the mundane to something more sinister.
Is Josephine really being followed by The Man in the Grey Sweatshirt? How do her co-workers seem to know things about her before she knows them herself? Increasingly unmoored in her home life and uneasy in her work life, Josephine attempts to keep her paranoia in check and hold on to her sanity. But as her suspicions escalate and the terrifying truth about her work is revealed, she realizes that those she holds most dear are in fatal danger.
Mise à jour du 18 mars 2016 : droits cédés aux Bayard Jeunesse
Armand Baltazar, déjà artiste pour Pixar, est l’auteur de TIMELESS, une nouvelle triologie série middle-grade qui paraîtrat chez HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen à l’automne 2017.
La Fox en a acquis les droits audiovisuels, et Ridley Scott figure parmi les producteurs! Le film sera réalisé par Carlos Saldanha (« L’Âge de Glace » et « Rio »), comme annoncé sur The Hollywood Reporter.
A major new illustrated Middle Grade series by a former art director at Pixar Animation, with film rights sold to Fox
TIMELESS:
Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic (#1)
by Armand Baltazar
Katherine Tegen Books, Fall 2017
The world did not end. At least not permanently.
The Time Collision came from beyond the stars, a cosmic event that fractured time and space, tearing apart the earth and reshaping it into something entirely new. This is the world Diego Ribera was born into. The past, present, and future coexisting together.
Timeless.
In New Chicago, Diego’s middle school hallways buzz with kids from all eras of history and from cultures all over the world. The pieces do not always fit together neatly, but this is the world he loves. There are those, however, who do not share his affection.
On his thirteenth birthday, Diego learns of a special gift he has within, a secret that is part of something much bigger-something he cannot understand. When his father, New Chicago’s top engineer, is taken by the Aeternum, Diego must rescue him and prevent this evil group from disrupting the fragile piece humanity has forged.
With stunning illustrations, Armand Baltazar delivers an epic and imaginative new series, a cinematic tour de force about a boy and his friends embarking on a journey to save their world, and about the unshakeable bond of family.
Armand Baltazar was born on Chicago’s North Side, not far from the famed Wrigley Field. After attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Armand began a visual storytelling career in feature animation as a background artist, visual development artist, and art director for DreamWorks Studios, Walt Disney, and Pixar Animation. He currently resides in Northern California with his family, creating the art and stories for the epic adventure series Timeless.
Mise à jour du 21 avril 2016 : droits cédés à Bayard Jeunesse
Après sa série A HOUSE OF NIGHT (« Maison de la Nuit »), bestseller international avec plus de 12 millions d’exemplaires vendus, P.C. Cast fait son retour avec une nouvelle série pour jeunes adultes : TALES OF A NEW WORLD.
Le titre du premier volet sera MOON CHOSEN et Saint Martin’s Griffin le publiera en octobre 2016. L’auteur vient de l’annoncer sur son blog !
A new YA series from the bestselling author of A HOUSE OF NIGHT
MOON CHOSEN
(Tales From a New World)
by P.C. Cast
Saint Martin’s Griffin, October 2016
Mari is a strong young heroine finding her way as she overcomes unbeatable odds. She is an Earth Walker. As the daughter of the high priestess of their tribe, she stands to inherit her mother’s powerful title, and be tasked with keeping their people safe from enemy tribes. This is not exactly the destiny that Mari has dreamed of, as she barely knows herself and has secrets that the tribe can not find out. But when tragedy strikes, she is forced to make decisions she never thought possible and she experiences an explosion of power unlike anything any Earth Walker has ever known. Mari’s new found powers cannot prevent the undeniable draw she feels toward Nik, a young man who is considered her enemy. But as a greater darkness approaches, Mari and Nik must band together in a tumultuous alliance if they are to save their people…and each other.