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El antaño flamante director de recursos humanos Alain Delambre ha perdido toda esperanza de encontrar trabajo y se siente cada vez más marginado. Cuando una empresa de reclutamiento considera su candidatura, está dispuesto a todo con tal de conseguir el empleo y recuperar su dignidad, desde mentir a su esposa hasta pedirle dinero a su hija para poder participar en la prueba final del proceso de selección: un simulacro de toma de rehenes. Sin embargo, la ira acumulada en años de agravios no tiene límites...y el juego de rol puede convertirse en un macabro juego de muerte.

Jean Garnier lives on the fringes - a lonely nobody who has lost everything dear to him. His girlfriend was killed in an unexplained accident, his mother has just been sent to prison - he has even lost his job after the sudden death of his boss. In one last, desperate cry for help, Jean sets up seven lethal bombs, hidden all over Paris and timed so that one will explode every 24 hours. After the first detonation, Jean gives himself up to the police. He has one simple demand: his mother must be released, or the daily explosions will continue.

El comandante Camille Verhoeven vive la vida perfecta: está casado con la maravillosa Irène, con la que espera su primer hijo. Pero su felicidad se resquebraja tras un asesinato inusualmente salvaje. Desde que la noticia se hace pública, la prensa lo acecha y cada uno de sus movimientos se convierte en noticia de portada. Verhoeven descubre que el asesino ha matado antes. Cada uno de sus crímenes parece rendir homenaje a una novela negra clásica, por lo que los periodistas se apresuran a darle un sobrenombre: "El Novelista".

Pierre Lemaitre tisse avec délice une toile inextricable dans laquelle un cinquantenaire au chômage est prêt à tout pour retrouver un travail, et sa dignité. Jusqu’où est-il prêt à aller ?

Dès le premier meurtre, épouvantable et déroutant, Camille Verhœven comprend que cette affaire ne ressemblera à aucune autre. Et il a raison. D'autres crimes se révèlent, horribles, gratuits... La presse, le juge, le préfet se déchaînent bientôt contre la "méthode Verhoeven". Policier atypique, le commandant Verhoeven ne craint pas les affaires hors normes mais celle-ci va le placer totalement seul face à un assassin qui semble avoir tout prévu. Jusque dans le moindre détail.

In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, 12-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief—and ongoing shame—he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with a fiancée and a promising future.

Jean Garnier lives on the fringes - a lonely nobody who has lost everything dear to him. His girlfriend was killed in an unexplained accident, his mother has just been sent to prison - he has even lost his job after the sudden death of his boss. In one last, desperate cry for help, Jean sets up seven lethal bombs, hidden all over Paris and timed so that one will explode every 24 hours.

Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. The only job offers he gets are for low-level, demoralizing positions. He has reached rock bottom and can see no way out. So when a major company finally invites him in for an interview, Alain is ready to do anything - borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters, and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves taking hostages. Alain vows to commit body and soul in this struggle to regain his dignity.

"Un événement est considéré comme décisif lorsqu'il désaxe complètement votre vie. Par exemple, trois décharges de fusil à pompe sur la femme que vous aimez." Anne Forestier, la nouvelle compagne du commandant Verhoeven, est l'unique témoin d'un braquage dans une bijouterie des Champs-Elysées. Elle a été violemment tabassée et laissée pour morte. Atmosphère glaçante, écriture sèche, mécanique implacable : Pierre Lemaitre a imposé son style et son talent dans l’univers du thriller.

Celebrated French crime writer Pierre Lemaitre and his English language translator Frank Wynne join us for an exclusive interview in the Audible Studios. In November 2014 Pierre won the top literary prize in France - the Prix Goncourt - for his novel Au revoir là-haut. His latest novel is a dark and disturbing thriller called Blood Wedding.

Sophie Duguet—young, successful, and happily married—thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she'd parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she'd said and done, too. And when she was detained by the police for shoplifting, a crime she didn't remember committing, the confusion and blackouts that had begun to plague her took on a more sinister cast.

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she is trapped in the middle of a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-Élysées. Shot three times, she is lucky to survive - and morbidly unlucky to remember the face of her assailant. Followed home from her hospital bed, Anne is in grave danger. But one thing stands in her favour - a dangerously vengeful partner, carrying the scars of devastating loss, who will break all the rules to protect the woman he loves: Commandant Camille Verhoeven.

Antoine is 12 years old. His parents are divorced, and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small backwater town surrounded by forests, where everyone knows everyone's business and nothing much ever happens. But in the last days of 1999, a series of events unfolds, culminating in the shocking vanishing without trace of a young child. The adults of the town are at a loss to explain the disappearance, but for Antoine, it all begins with the violent death of his neighbour's dog.

The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business manufacturing and exporting artisanal soaps. He hoped to pass the business on to his eldest son, Jean, but Jean doesn't have the sharpness or aptitude for such an enterprise. After nearly running the company into the ground, Jean marries a money-grubbing young woman who quickly makes him miserable, and they emigrate to Paris. But there's another reason Jean must leave - he has committed a terrible crime.

It is 1952 and the grown children of Louis Pelletier, a prominent businessman with a dark past, have settled in Paris. Jean, the menacing eldest brother, hides a terrible secret and is trapped in a stifling marriage, his days lightened only by his love for his three-year-old daughter. François, an up-and-coming reporter, is caught up in a volatile love affair. And Hélène, their younger sister, strives to make her own way as a journalist, but as a woman in a man’s world, she faces extraordinary challenges as she fights to expose a vast industrial scandal.

"Irène" er første bog i trilogien om Camille Verhoeven. Dette er historien, der går forud for ALEX. I 2015 udkommer tredje og sidste bog. Kriminalkommisaer Camille Verhoeven er lykkelig: Han er gift med den dejlige Irène og sammen venter de deres første barn. Men hans tilvaerelse bliver vendt fuldstaendig på hovedet, da han skal opklare et yderst voldsomt mord. Kun Camille ser forbindelsen i den umotiverede vold - drabsstedet ligner en scene beskrevet i en krimi af James Ellroy.

Beirut, 1948. Louis Pelletier e sua moglie Angèle sono emigrati da molti anni in Libano e hanno avuto quattro figli. Negli anni Venti Louis ha acquistato un modesto saponificio trasformandolo nel "fiore all'occhiello dell'industria libanese" e ne va enormemente fiero. Il figlio primogenito Jean, detto Bouboule, ventisette anni, è un uomo senza ambizioni, succube della terribile moglie Geneviève, con la quale si è trasferito a Parigi deludendo le aspettative del padre che l'avrebbe voluto alla direzione del suo impero.

"Autant prévenir tout de suite (j'espère que vous lisez ces lignes avant d'acheter...) : les amateurs de définitions maîtrisées, de monographies exhaustives, d'analyses thématiques seront déçus. C'est à un écrivain que l'éditeur a confié ce Dictionnaire amoureux, je parlerai donc ici en romancier et en lecteur. Il y aura des oublis impardonnables, des injustices criantes, des jugements contestables, c'est inévitable : c'est un dictionnaire de ce que j'aime et encore n'ai-je pas pu mettre tout ce que j'aime."

Sophie vive a Parigi, ha trent'anni, lavora come babysitter del piccolo Léo. Il resto della sua vita è un mistero, anche perché Sophie dimentica cosa ha fatto nel giro di poche ore e vive in un costante stato di oblio. Una sera si ferma a dormire dai suoi datori di lavoro. Il mattino dopo si ritrova sola in casa, nella cameretta il corpo di Léo, strangolato nel sonno. Inizia così la sua lunga fuga, una discesa fin negli abissi del crimine per salvarsi da un omicidio che non ha commesso ma per il quale è l'imputata perfetta. Fino a quando scoprirà cosa è davvero accaduto quella notte.

Vous voulez apporter des changements dans votre vie, mais vous vous dites que vous n'avez pas le temps, que ce n'est pas le bon moment et que, de toute façon, ça ne marchera pas ? Etes-vous de ceux qui se trouvent toujours des excuses pour ne pas passer à l'action ? Eh bien, ce petit guide est fait pour vous !