Christian Jacq
A young and pretty actress achieves something extraordinary: she forces the door of Higgins’ country estate. She begs him to investigate the strange death of Sir Charles, a famous and wealthy ...
Bernard Minier
Poor fallen souls, I had to kill you… May 1993. Two sisters, Alice 20 years old and Amber 21 years old, are found dead on the banks of the Garonne. Clad in communion dresses, they face each ...
Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves
A lost lake in Ontario and, in the middle, a cragged little island where the evil wind of suspicion blows. Max King, a pianist beloved worldwide, lives there reclusively, a prisoner of his ...
Christian Jacq
The Island of Peliz is the only island in Lake Geneva. On this piece of land, almost entirely covered by a hundred-year-old plane tree, the corpse of an English billionaire and former secret ...
Mireille Calmel
“Think back to the first volume of The Venetian Lionesses. In October 1627, Lucia, the young and mischievous Venetian, helplessly watched as fire engulfed her modest family’s print shop. The day ...
José Frèches
A Great Epic Novel. The exciting story of an animal that has become a legend. “You all know it, with its splendid black and white attire, its good-natured aura, its insatiable appetite and its ...
The Machine rules over the entire world. Created by humans, it now controls them in all domains. Who oversees it? No one. It is self-sustaining, diminishing all areas of freedom in the name of ...
Laurent Decaux
Champagne, 1382. When, after six years of crusade, Jacques de Charney finally returns to his land, he is astonished to discover an enormous crowd huddled in front of the castle church. Pilgrims ...
Christian Jacq
The incredible adventure of the French scholar who deciphered the hieroglyphs From July 1828 to December 1829, Jean-François Champollion made his dream come true and finally travelled the land of ...
Mireille Calmel
VENICE, APRIL 1627. When three masked men arrive to kidnap her father, a printer, the young Lucia barely escapes a gunshot. What do they want from Don Carlo, her father? Lucia is not one to give ...
Nicolas Vanier
Paris, 1930. Paul had only known one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the working class Parisian suburbs. But then one day he is taken in by a joyful ...
Guillaume Musso
“Art is a lie that tells the truth…” Paris, an artist’s workshop hidden at the end of a lush green alleyway. Madeline has rented it to allow herself some rest and isolation. Due to a ...