Archives de catégorie : Crime & Thrillers

DARK AND SHALLOW LIES de Ginny Myers Sain

A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.

DARK AND SHALLOW LIES
by Ginny Myers Sain
Razorbill, September 2021
(via Park, Fine & Brower)

La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.

This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World—and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey’s best friend, disappeared six months earlier.

Grey can’t believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something—her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.

When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou—a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town’s bloody history—Grey realizes that La Cachette’s past is far more present and dangerous than she’d ever understood. Suddenly, she doesn’t know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent—and La Cachette’s dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.

* “Dreamy prose conjures a mythical Southern Gothic atmosphere, mixing violence with a Byronic characterization of Elora’s stepbrother Hart. Taut pacing builds sustained terror on the page with each successive suspect in this formidable debut.” Publishers Weekly, starred review

Haunting and arresting, this is one stunning debut. Ginny Myers Sain has written a totally engrossing small-town mystery about what happens when you finally dig up long-buried secrets.” —Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of They’ll Never Catch Us

Enchanting and chilling at once, you’ll instantly get sucked into this atmospheric tale of kindred spirits brimming with secrets that could tear them apart. Ginny Myers Sain’s haunting, lush, lyrical prose will keep you captivated till the end.” —Diana Urban, author of All Your Twisted Secrets

Ginny Myers Sain lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school students seriously intent on pursuing a career in the professional theatre. Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote settings. She is also the author of Secrets So Deep. Follow her on Twitter @stageandpage and on Instagram @ginnymyerssain, or find her on her website at ginnymyerssain.com

BAD NEWS DADS d’Adam Frost bientôt adapté en série TV

Warner Bros. Television a récemment remporté les droits d’adaptation audiovisuelle du roman BAD NEWS DADS du scénariste Adam Frost, dans des enchères très compétitives.

Greg Berlanti, connu pour Fly Me to the Moon, Love, Simon et Life as We Know It, produira la série, aux côtés de James Marsden (Paradise, Westworld, 27 Dresses et The Notebook) qui sera également producteur et acteur principal.

Voici une présentation du roman, dont les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles :

A hilarious and superbly plotted crime novel for fans of Richard Osman and Elle Cosimano.

BAD NEWS DADS
by Adam Frost
Emily Bestler Books/Simon & Schuster, Summer 2026 
(via Sterlin gLord Literistic)

The Bad News Dads are a recreational baseball team in Los Angeles—a terrible one, made up of a bunch of 40-something dads, several of them of the stay-at-home variety. Tired of the constant grind of packing lunches and coordinating school pick-ups, the team’s catcher, Ben, is looking for some action. When a teammate’s wife dies tragically, Ben and his two closest friends decide that something fishy has happened, and they blithely take it upon themselves to solve what they’re sure is a murder. But can they fall down the dark rabbit hole of a murder investigation without ruining their home lives? Without ruining their friendships? And without getting killed themselves?

Adam Frost was born in Vancouver, Canada. He is a writer, actor, and director known for Castle (2009), Extreme Movie (2008) and Tribal (2020).

NOBODY DESERVES THIS d’Andy Callahan

Written for fans of Liz Moore and Dennis Lehane, Andy Callahan’s debut has loads of insight about fathers and sons, and about the various privileges of the wealthy; but most of all, NOBODY DESERVES THIS is an expertly plotted thriller with twists that will leave you breathless.

NOBODY DESERVES THIS
by Andy Callahan
Celadon Books, Summer 2026 or Early 2027
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

Set in Philadelphia’s elite Main Line suburbs, 21-year-old screw-up Sean Mulcahy is careening toward rock bottom ever since his sister has gone missing and the cops seem unable to crack the case. He’s been thrown out of Brown University, his father has disowned him, and a private equity magnate still blames him for his sister’s disappearance. When another young woman suddenly disappears, Sean decides to follow his nose and investigate on his own, but he will need to reconcile with his father first and enlist his help.

*Pre-empted in the US

Andy Callahan graduated from Yale in 1997 and the Warner Bros. TV Writers’ Workshop in 2014. He has written for several network crime shows including Person of Interest, Lethal Weapon, Taken, and FBI. He has also written several produced features and his inspirational drama Searching For Obama is currently in production. Andy grew up in in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania and attended one of the elite high schools on the Main Line on a partial scholarship to play basketball for them, a memory he cherishes and which has inspired his book, both the good and the ugly.

HARD TIMES de Jeff Boyd

Set in Chicago the novel follows the ripple effects of a tragic shooting throughout the community, focusing especially the teachers, police officers and students. With a cinematic sense of place and scene along with a wide cast of richly-drawn characters, this novel provides equal parts heartbreak, suspense, and action.

HARD TIMES
by Jeff Boyd
Flatiron/SMPG, March 2026

Buddy Mack has been caught in the middle of two worlds at war. As an English teacher at a South Side Chicago high school lauded for their football team but at risk in every other way, he tries to instill a love of literature, and is especially concerned with a trio of boys who test him to no end but are full of promise and heart. There’s Zeke, the football star; Truth, the sweet-talking charmer; and Dontell, Buddy’s most promising student.

At home, his wife, Chrissy, a successful corporate lawyer, is ready to upgrade to a big house on the North Side and start a family. He’s torn over all the implications. And the closest person he has in his life to talk to about the pressure he’s feeling is Chrissy’s little brother, Curtis, a corrupt Chicago cop.

The push-and-pull of the two worlds collide in a shocking moment that requires Buddy to choose a side and fight for all that he holds dear. HARD TIMES takes stock of what it means to be there for your people whether you want to or not and unflinchingly confronts the American dream—a moving, engrossing, and necessary read.

Like S.A. Cosby, Jeff Boyd has written a crime novel that sits on a shelf with literary fiction and digs deep into the social aspect of crime. This book explores rich and complicated family dynamics, the vulnerability of the students, and the tension between a community and law enforcement. And it all comes together in a really extraordinary, page-turning read.

Jeff Boyd is the author of The Weight (Simon & Schuster, 2023). A former public school teacher from Chicago, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is currently a Visiting Instructor of Creative Writing at Pratt Institute and lives in Brooklyn with his partner and child.

A BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE MURDER de Claire Andrews

Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper, this historical murder mystery follows the cunning Irene Adler as she teams up with the mysterious Sherlock Holmes to discover who is murdering Oxford’s elite students in the All Souls class.

A BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE MURDER
by Claire Andrews
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, August 2025
(via Dystel, Goderich & Bourret)

Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She’s at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford’s brightest minds. But her peers and professors don’t know she’s a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland.

Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who’s responsible for the deaths, Irene—as Isaac—teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues. Their mission grows more dangerous by the day as someone tries to frame Isaac for the murders, and Irene’s own father, Dean Moriarty, begins to threaten her seat in school.

Readers will love following these classic and beloved characters through the twists and turns in the dark halls of Oxford, and discovering what secret lies behind the glitz and glamor of the elite.

Claire M. Andrews was raised in both Alaska and Scotland, but currently lives in Vermont. When not writing, she can usually be found outside swimming, skiing, or hiking across the state’s famous green mountains. She is the author of the Daughter of Sparta series and can be found on Instagram and Twitter at @cmandrewslit.