Archives de catégorie : Crime & Thrillers

CHILD ZERO de Chris Holm

A fast-moving, page-turning thriller about a world in which antibiotics no longer have the ability to fight off disease.

CHILD ZERO
by Chris Holm
Mulholland/Little Brown, 2022

A quick, straightforward, fast-paced read about Mateo, a boy who not only can fight off disease in a world where antibiotics have lost all of their power, but can heal others. This amazing kid is being hunted by those who want to harness and potentially extinguish his ability. When two detectives find themselves caught in the crossfire of the pursuit, they put their careers and their lives at risk, deciding to deliver Mat to The Resistance—an organization they’ve been trained to view as an enemy to the State but soon start to realize is probably society’s last, best hope.

Chris Holm is a former molecular biologist with a U.S. patent to his name so in this case especially, he knows of what he writes. He is the author of the cross-genre Collector trilogy which recasts the battle between heaven and hell as old-fashioned crime pulp; the Michael Hendricks thrillers which feature a hitman who only kills other hitmen; and thirty-plus short stories that run the gamut from crime to horror to science fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcok’s Mystery Magazine and The Best American Mystery Stories. His Collector trilogy garnered praise from National Public Radio and was nominated for several awards, including a Stoker and an Anthony. His first Hendricks novel, The Killing Kind, was named a Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2015, and Strand Magazine‘s Top Book of 2015. It won the 2016 Anthony Award of Best Novel and was nominated for a Barry, a Lefty and a Macavity. He and his wife live in Portland, Maine.

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.

Les studios Paramount adapteront RAZORBLADE TEARS de S. A. Cosby pour le grand écran

Paramount Players vient de remporter aux enchères les droits d’adaptation audiovisuelle de RAZORBLADE TEARS de S. A. Cosby. Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Pirates des Caraïbes, Armageddon…) et Chad Oman produiront le film, dont le réalisateur et la date de sortie n’ont pas encore été annoncés. Le scénario sera adapté du roman par Virgil Williams, co-scénariste du film Mudbound sorti en 2017.

RAZORBLADE TEARS se déroule dans le sud des États-Unis et raconte l’histoire de deux hommes qui s’associent dans leur quête rédemptrice de vengeance après les meurtres de leurs fils respectifs, victimes de l’homophobie et des préjugés des états ruraux du Sud. Le livre paraîtra chez Flatiron Books en juillet 2021.

Le précédent roman de l’auteur, Blacktop Wasteland paru en juillet 2020 aux États-Unis, a rencontré un grand succès critique. Numéro un des ventes Amazon et sélectionné comme « Amazon’s Editor Pick – Best Book of the Year » dans la catégorie mysteries/thrillers aux USA, il a reçu, entre autres, la distinction « New York Times Notable Book of the Year ». Il paraîtra prochainement aux éditions Sonatine.

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.

FORTY ACRES de Dwayne Alexander Smith bientôt adapté par Netflix dans un long-métrage produit par Jay-Z

Le long-métrage, à mi-chemin entre La Firme et le film d’horreur Get Out, sera produit par Jay-Z, James Lassiter et Aaron Kaplan de la société de production Kapital Entertainment. Le scénario sera écrit par Cheo Hodari Coker, créateur de la série Marvel Luke Cage sur Netflix. (Lire l’article de Deadline)

Dans le thriller politique FORTY ACRES de Dwayne Alexander Smith publié chez Atria aux États-Unis en juillet 2014, Martin Grey, un jeune avocat noir intelligent et talentueux, est pris sous l’aile d’une société secrète composée des hommes noirs les plus puissants et les plus riches des États-Unis. Il est ébloui par ce qu’ils ont accompli, et eux semblent penser qu’il a le potentiel pour devenir l’un des leurs. Ils l’invitent à passer un week-end loin de tout, sans épouses ni téléphones portables. Mais ce que Martin découvre est une réalité alternative troublante qui remet en cause ses convictions les plus profondes…

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