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DEEP INTO THE DARK de P.J. Tracy

New York Times bestseller P. J. Tracy returns with DEEP INTO THE DARK, a brand new series set in LA and featuring up-and-coming LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan and murder suspect Sam Easton.

DEEP INTO THE DARK
by P.J. Tracy
Minotaur, January 2021

Sam Easton―a true survivor―is home from Afghanistan, trying to rebuild a life in his hometown of LA. Separated from his wife, bartending and therapy sessions are what occupy his days and nights. When friend and colleague Melody Traeger is beaten by her boyfriend, she turns to Sam for help. When the boyfriend turns up dead the next day, a hard case like Sam is the perfect suspect. But LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, whose brother recently died serving overseas, is sympathetic to Sam’s troubles, and can’t quite see him as a killer. She’s more interested in the secrets Melody might be keeping and the developments in another murder case on the other side of town. Set in an LA where real people live and work—not the superficial LA of Beverly Hills or the gritty underbelly of the city—DEEP INTO THE DARK features two really engaging, dynamic main characters and explores the nature of obsession, revenge, and grief.
P. J. Tracy is known for her « fast, fresh, and funny » characters (Harlan Coben) and her « sizzling » plots (People); the Monkeewrench series was her first, set in Minneapolis and co-written with her mother. Now with DEEP INTO THE DARK she’s on her own―and it’s a home run.

P. J. Tracy is the pseudonym of Traci Lambrecht, bestselling and award winning author of the Monkeewrench series. Lambrecht and her mother, P. J., wrote eight novels together as P. J. Tracy before P. J. passed away in 2016. Lambrecht has since continued the Monkeewrench series solo. She spent most of her childhood painting and showing Arabian horses, and graduated with a Russian Studies major from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she also studied voice. She now lives outside Minneapolis.

Claire Foy qui interprète la reine Elisabeth II dans la série télévisée « The Crown » tiendra le rôle principal dans l’adaptation de THE PISCES de Melissa Broder

Lucy est une thésarde en panne d’inspiration qui s’éprend d’un homme-sirène. A travers leur idylle étrange et sensuelle, l’histoire explore la définition de l’amour et les limites entre plaisir et possession, fantasmes et réalité.

L’auteure Melissa Broder et la réalisatrice Gillian Robespierre ont écrit ensemble le scénario du film. (Lire l’article de Deadline]

Publié en 2018 par Hogarth Press aux États-Unis, THE PISCES paraîtra en traduction française au printemps prochain aux Éditions Christian Bourgois, qui publieront aussi le prochain roman de l’auteure, Milk Fed (Scribner, février 2021).

THE BALLERINAS de Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a trio of ballerinas who meet as students at the Paris Opera Ballet School.

THE BALLERINAS
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
St. Martin’s Press, December 2021

Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg—taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now thirty-six years old, Delphine has returned to her former home and to the legendary Palais Garnier Opera House, to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart the next phase of her career—and, she hopes, finally make things right with her former friends. But Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed while she’s been away…and some secrets can’t stay buried forever. Moving between the trio’s adolescent years and the present day, THE BALLERINAS explores the complexities of female friendship, the dark drive towards physical perfection in the name of artistic expression, the double-edged sword of ambition and passion, and the sublimated rage that so many women hold inside—all culminating in a twist you won’t see coming, with magnetic characters you won’t soon forget.

Rachel Kapelke-Dale is the co-author of Graduates in Wonderland (Penguin, 2014), a memoir about the significance and nuances of female friendships. The author of Vanity Fair Hollywood’s column “Advice from the Stars,” Kapelke-Dale spent years in intensive ballet training before receiving a BA from Brown University, an MA from the Université de Paris VII, and a PhD from University College London. She currently lives in Paris.

Les romans YA de Jenna Evans Welch bientôt adaptés par Netflix

Netflix vient d’acquérir les droits audiovisuels des trois romans de Jenna Evans Welch publiés chez Simon Pulse aux États-Unis : LOVE & GELATO, LOVE & LUCK et LOVE & OLIVES, tous les trois des New York Times Bestsellers. C’est le scénariste et producteur Brandon Camp (Coup de foudre à Seattle, 2009 ; Benji, 2018) qui écrira, réalisera et produira les trois adaptations. Aucune date n’a été annoncée pour l’instant.

Le dernier roman de l’autrice, LOVE & OLIVES, paru en novembre 2020, est un standalone inspiré de la comédie musicale Mamma Mia ! dans lequel une jeune Américaine d’origine grecque, Liv Varanakis, va retrouver à Santorin son père absent qu’elle n’a pas vu depuis des années pour l’aider dans ses recherches sur la cité disparue d’Atlantis. C’est là-bas, dans la librairie de son père, qu’elle fait la rencontre de son assistant Theo…

Jenna Evans Welch publiera prochainement d’autres titres YA chez Simon Pulse.

Les droits de LOVE & OLIVES sont toujours disponibles.

BREATHLESS by Amy McCulloch

Mise à jour du 10/3/2021 : droits cédés à Michel Lafon Publishing

The debut adult thriller from bestselling children’s author Amy McCulloch, BREATHLESS follows a journalist covering an attempt to summit Manaslu, who quickly starts to suspect that someone on the expedition is out to sabotage it. A claustrophobic setting and page-turning suspense.

BREATHLESS
by Amy McCulloch
Michael Joseph/Penguin UK, Early 2022

After a near-death experience in Snowdonia, journalist Cecily Wong swore she’d never go to the mountains again. But when she’s offered the career opportunity of a lifetime – to interview world famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh as he completes his record-breaking mission in Nepal – she has no choice but to take it. There’s just one caveat: she has to summit the mountain first. It’s a mammoth task that Cecily fears she cannot handle, especially when disaster strikes before they’ve even left for base camp in the form of an earthquake that seriously injures one of the team, and an anonymous note left pinned to her tent, warning her there’s a murderer on the mountain.
Charles inspires them to carry on. Except isolated on the mountain, with only intermittent contact with the outside world, not only does Cecily have to contend with the perils of high altitude life – the lack of oxygen, deep yawning crevasses in the ice and terrifying avalanches – but with a series of mishaps that make her suspect someone on the mountain is trying to harm her – and that some of her darkest secrets might not be so secret, after all.
As the body count steadily rises, Cecily faces up to the terrifying truth: there’s a murderer on the mountain, and he’s hunting them one by one. After all, where better for a serial killer to thrive than a place already known as the ‘Death Zone’?

Amy McCulloch is an internationally bestselling Chinese-White author, born in the UK and raised in Ottawa, Canada, now based in London, UK. She has written eight novels for children and young adults, including the #1 bestselling YA novel The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow with Zoe Sugg, and has been translated into over ten different languages. BREATHLESS is her adult fiction debut. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was editorial director for a leading children’s publisher in London and was named one of The Bookseller‘s Rising Stars. In addition to writing, she loves adventure, travel and mountaineering. In September 2019, she became the youngest Canadian woman to climb Mt Manaslu in Nepal – the world’s eighth highest mountain at 8,163m (26,781ft). She also summited the highest mountain in the Americas, Aconcagua, in -45C and 90mph winds, and has visited all seven continents.