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| Author: | Title: | Description: |
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| Adamo, C. | Requiem pour un poisson | Thriller revolving round the mysterious discovery of a fish supposedly extinct… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.90 | ||
| Amette, J.-P. | Le Lac d'or | Written by a prizewinning author, this masterpiece is more than just an ordinary crime thriller. The action takes place in the atmospheric 13ème arrondissement of Paris, weaving together the fate of a policeman, his ex-mistress and a prostitute. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £18.40 | ||
| Asensi, M. | Le Salon d'ambre | Crime novel translated from the Spanish "El Salón de Ámbar". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.35 | ||
| Attia, M. | Alger la Noire | Murder mystery set during the Algerian civil war. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £9.60 | ||
| Attia, M. | Pointe rouge | In the aftermath of the Algerian war, four characters become embroiled in a ghastly political murder. From the author of the successful thriller "Alger la Noire". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £12.80 | ||
| Aubert, B. | Une âme de trop | When a housebound nurse on sick leave hears of the murder of three women linked to the hospital where she works, she ups the home vigillance. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.65 | ||
| Aubert, B. | Les Quatre fils du Dr March | A woman is employed as a maid for a respectable family and discovers a journal in which a series of horrific murders are recorded. Convinced that it was written by one of the sons, she investigates and the game of cat and mouse begins… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.50 | ||
| Aubert, B. | Reflets de sang | From a prizewinning author whose novels are translated into more than 20 languages. After a woman is murdered, Emilie discovers that her husband's sister is not who she believes her to be and she begins to fear for her life…An exciting thriller. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £20.95 | ||
| Aurousseau, N. | Bleu de chauffe | An employee witnesses his boss breaking into his own business and raiding the safe… he has pictures as evidence but can he afford to lose his job? |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £16.85 | ||
| Barrière, M. | Meurtres à la pomme d'or | 1556. François, a medical student in Montpellier, turns detective when his teacher is arrested for murder. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £17.95 | ||
| Bartelt, F. | Le Jardin du bossu | A thief is caught red-handed and becomes the slave of the person he was attempting to rob. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.30 | ||
| Battisti, C. | Les Habits d'ombre | Reprint of Battisti's first novel tracing the lives of ex-Red Brigade members now living clandestinely in different parts of the world. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Beinhart, L | Le bibliothécaire | Translation of American novel "The Librarian". Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2006. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £8.35 | ||
| Belletto, R. | Régis Mille l'éventreur | The first in the trilogy which explores adventures taking place Lyon; in this novel, 50 fast paced and breathless chapters follow the unconventional police inspector Michel Rey who attempts to piece together the puzzle of a killer murdering women. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Benson, S. | Requiem en bleu | A young militant environmental activist gets involved in a toxic chemical scandal. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.30 | ||
| Besson, P. | Un homme accidentel | High quality literature from a bestselling author who proves his originality in turning this crime thriller into a captivating love story. Two men cross paths when a prostitute is brutally murdered. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £21.70 | ||
| Bialot, J. | Route story | A 13 year-old boy embarks on a road trip across France. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.30 | ||
| Bourcy, T. | La cote 512 | A police investigation takes place when a young lieutenant is murdered by someone from his own camp during the First World War. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.35 | ||
| Bruen, K | Toxic Blues | Translation of the Irish crime novel "The Killing of the Tinkers". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Brussolo, S. | Le Masque d'argile | In imperial Rome, two merceneries lead an investigation… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.45 | ||
| Cornwel, P. | Une peine d'exception | A translation of "Cruel and Unusual". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.95 | ||
| Crouzet, V. | Rouge intense | A thriller set in the international world of diamond trading. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.85 | ||
| Crumley, J. | Le Dernier baiser | Translation of "The Last Good Kiss". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £8.35 | ||
| Daeninckx, D. | Je tue il… | Set in post-war Japan as American troops leave the locals to face the aftermath, a love story and a mystery combine fact and fiction. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Daeninckx, D. | Meurtres pour mémoire | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Daeninckx, D. | Nazis dans le métro | Detective Le Poulpe gets to work on the case of an elderly politically engaged writer who may have unearthed something he shouldn't. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Delepierre, P. | Sous les pavés l'orage | In May 1968, a slogan marks the façade of a college where the principal is murdered. Police inspector Thibaud is called in to investigate the series of murders which ensue. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £16.95 | ||
| Fajardie, F.-H. | Gentil, Faty! | A monster killer is on the loose in Paris. Police inspector Kasbarian and his principal Stievet lead the investigation, one that will be the last for both of them… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.45 | ||
| Férey, C. | Plutôt crever | Fred should have read the instructions for the gun his best friend gave him for his birthday! |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Férey, C. | Utu | An expert in Maori culture investigates the apparent suicide of a friend in Australia who had been involved with a shaman. Was it really suicide? |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £9.30 | ||
| Frégni, R. | Lettre à mes tueurs | Death of a writer in mysterious circumstances... Set in Marseille. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.30 | ||
| Giesbert, F-O. | L'Abatteur | Chilling detective novel set in the hospitals and abattoirs of Provence and Normandy. Commissaire de police Marie Sastre investigates… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.35 | ||
| Giesbert, F.-O. | L'immortel | A man is left for dead but wakes up from his coma, intent on taking revenge on his enemies. A sort of modern day Monte-Cristo and will be adapted into a film starring Jean Reno later this year. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.90 | ||
| Graham, P. | L'Évangile selon Satan | A fantastic, gripping thriller which takes the reader from the Rocky mountains to the Vatican with serial killers and exorcists on the loose…Winner of the Prix Maison de la presse 2007. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £9.40 | ||
| Grangé, J-C. | Le serment des limbes | Bestselling crime from the author of the chilling "L'Empire des loups". A series of murders seem to have something in common… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £27.10 | ||
| Izner, C. | Le léopard des Batignolles | A murder mystery set in the Paris of 1893. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £8.55 | ||
| Japp, A.H. | Un violent désir de paix | A woman living under an assumed identity learns that her serial killer husband is once again on the rampage…. Another case for FBI investigators Doyle and Lorca. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.25 | ||
| Japrisot, S. | Le Passager de la pluie | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £3.50 | ||
| Jauffret, R. | Autobiographie | The autobiography of an egotist. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.25 | ||
| Jonquet, T. | Du passé faisons table rase | The past never forgets, as a politician with a questionable past begins to find out. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | La part du mort | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.35 | ||
| Khadra, Y. | Le quatuor algérien | Four investigations from the police inspector Llob evoking Algeria in the 1990s marked by violence and tragedy. Written by one of the most important authors of our generation and whose works have been translated into more than 30 languages. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £9.35 | ||
| Lashner, W. | Vice de forme | Translation of the American crime novel "Fatal Flaw". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.90 | ||
| Le Roy, P. | Le dernier testament | Grand Prix de littérature policière 2005. Nathan Love's investigations into the murder of researchers in Alaska lead him to the Vatican where he discovers humanity's best kept secret — the testament of Yehoshua Ben Yossef or Jesus. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £22.60 | ||
| Loevenbruck, H. | Le Rasoir d'Ockham | An analyst is confronted with a violent case as a serial killer is on the loose, a bloodthirsty sect has suddenly appeared and six pages of a famous manuscript from the 13th century have mysteriously disappeared. An action-packed thriller. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £22.50 | ||
| Martin, L. | L'Ivresse des dieux | Max Ripolini is investigating some nasty goings-on in a small town. A killer is on the loose. "Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière" 2003. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Pécherot, P. | Brouillards de la Butte, Les | Grand Prix de littérature policière 2002. A young man in post-war Paris must risk everything just to get by. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Pecherot, P. | Soleil noir | An assorted bunch of losers plot to break into an armoured van. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £18.20 | ||
| Pouy, J.-B. | Train perdu wagon mort | In the middle of the night, a train stops suddenly and the passengers find themselves in the middle of nowhere. Some leave to seek help, but their bodies are found in a deserted and destroyed town… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.40 | ||
| Le Roy, P. | La dernière arme | A man decides to investigate the sudden and rapid disappearances of young, beautiful, successful and intelligent victims. From a prizewinning author. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £9.20 | ||
| Roy, V. | Muséum | The discovery of a meteorite throws the Museum of Natural History into Paris in turmoil as a series of murders take place. Two researchers attempt to solve the mystery. International bestseller. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £8.40 | ||
| Various | Sable noir | A collection of six short stories by some of France's most celebrated crime writers. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.30 | ||
| Sardou, R. | Personne n'y échappera | New Hampshire. Winter 2007. Twenty four dead bodies are discovered, all killed by one bullet in the heart. A ritual killing? An assisted suicide? The act of gangsters? Once you start reading this book, you will not be able put it down! |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.45 | ||
| Schlink, B. | Le Nœud gordien | Mystery by the German author made famous internationally with his novel "The Reader". Set in the south of France. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Sigaud, D. | L'Inconfort des ordures | The body of an escort girl is found in a skip. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £9.45 | ||
| Simenon, G | Le chat | The latest Simenon mystery. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | L'Ane rouge | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Au rendez-vous des Terre-Nuevas | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Betty | Betty, drunk, stumbles into a bar on the outskirts of Paris where a kindly old woman takes care of her and helps her get back home. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Blanc à lunettes | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Chambre bleue | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Charretier de la providence | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Chien jaune | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Colère de Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Une confidence de Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Un crime en Hollande | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Danseuse du Gai-Moulin | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Disparition d'Odile | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | L'Écluse no. 1 | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | L'Énigme de la Marie-Galante | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £2.50 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Évadé, L' | When a respected professor, husband and father uncharacteristically lashes out at a student, it's just the start of a Jekyll & Hyde style personality swap... |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.35 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Fantômes du chapelier | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Feux rouges | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Fiancailles de M. Hire | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Fou de Bergerac | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La fuite de Monsieur Monde | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.50 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Haut mal | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | L'Homme de Londres | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Jument-perdue | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Lettre à mon juge | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.50 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Liberty Bar | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret à New York | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret a peur | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret au Picratt's | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret aux assises | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret chez le ministre | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et l'affaire Nahour | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et l'homme du banc | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et l'indicateur | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et la grande perche | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et la jeune morte | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et le corps sans tête | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et le marchand de vin | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et les braves gens | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et les petits cochons sans queue | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et Monsieur Charles | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret et son mort | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret se trompe | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret tend un piège | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Maigret voyage | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Maison des sept jeunes filles: La châle de Marie Dudon | Guillaume Adelin has a crazy wife and seven daughters. What is more he is going bankrupt! Classic Simenon. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Marie du port | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Mon ami Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Monsieur Gallet décédé | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Noces de Poitiers | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Un Noël de Maigret | On Christmas Eve, a girl sees a man who resembles Father Christmas and receives a doll as a present. Over the next five chapters Simenon builds up and opens out the investigation. An intriguing, moving and satisfying narration. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Nuit du carrefour | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.15 | ||
| Simenon, G. | L'Ours en peluche | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le passage de la Ligne | A fictional transposition of elements of the author's life, Simenon traces the upward mobility of a man who breaks through the class barrier three times; twice with the help of others, the third time by himself. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Patience de Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Pietr le letton | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La pipe de Maigret | The latest Maigret mystery. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Port des brumes | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Première enquête de Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Président | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Quartier nègre | When employee Dupuche gets stuck in Panama, events take a strange turn…. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.30 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Quatre jours du pauvre homme | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Rescapés du Télémaque | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le Revolver de Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Sept minutes | A boat that had been grounded for months is found abandoned at sea; no-one saw it leave and on board is the body of a young woman… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.35 | ||
| Simenon, G. | La Tête d'un homme | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Touriste de bananes | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.90 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Trois chambres à Manhattan | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Les Vacances de Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simenon, G. | Le voleur de Maigret | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.95 | ||
| Simmons, D. | Une balle dans la tête | American crime novel. Original title "Hard as Nails". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.90 | ||
| Slocombe, R. | Un été japonais | A well-renowned photographer's Tokyo exhibition of photos of uniformed Japanese youths from WW1 gets him in trouble with Yakuza, the Japanese mafia. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Staalesen, G. | La Femme dans le frigo | Translation from the Norwegian crime novel "Kvinnen I Kjøleskapet". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.35 | ||
| Sylvain, D. | La fille du samouraï | The young actress dies in the hotel. The investigatigation results suggest suicide, but her father does not believe it. Second part of adventures of Ingrid and Lola - main characters of Passage du Désir. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.60 | ||
| Tabachnik, M. | J'ai regardé le diable en face | Thriller. Hundreds of women are being murdered in Ciudad Juarez. The cases are never solved. A reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle attempts to shed light on the crimes. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.85 | ||
| Taddeus, T. | La Corde aux jours impairs | An assassin with a partiality for odd numbers. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £17.70 | ||
| Teran, B. | Discovery Bay | Thriller translated from the American. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.90 | ||
| Thilliez, F. | Deuils de miel | A police inspector investigates the death of a woman found naked and shaved with butterflies on her skull - an ominous, cryptic message? You will not be able to put this thriller down! |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.85 | ||
| Thilliez, F. | La forêt des ombres | Gripping thriller about an enigmatic millionaire on the brink of realising a morbid dream. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.35 | ||
| Thompson, J | Éliminatoires | Translation of the American "Wild Town". |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.30 | ||
| Todde, G. | La Peur et la chair | The second investigation for Efisio Marini. Set in Cagliari in 1861. Translated from the Italian. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Vaïner, A. & G. | 38, rue Petrovka | Bestselling Russian crime. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.90 | ||
| Varel, B. | Mémoire enfouie | Set in the Grenoble region, a police lieutenant investigates the murder of three women and the disappearances of their daughters… |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £18.70 | ||
| Vargas, F. | Dans les bois éternels | Welcome back to the world of cult crime writer Vargas. Investigator Adamsberg is well on the way to supplanting Sherlock Holmes! Vargas" tenth novel and an addictive read. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £20.40 | ||
| Vargas, F. | Un Lieu incertain | Bestseller. Bloodcurdling crimes are committed in Highgate cemetery in London and Adamsberg is led on a journey through Europe and Serbia to shed light on the mystery. Vargas' latest novel does not disappoint! |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £20.40 | ||
| Vargas, F. | Salut et liberté, suivi de La nuit des brutes | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £3.20 | ||
| Vargas, F. | Sous les vents de Neptune | The discovery of a young girl stabbed to death reminds a police investigator of his brother who disappeared after being suspected of murdering his friend thirty years ago. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £8.70 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.30 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | Coule la Seine | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £4.30 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | Debout les morts | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.30 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | L'Homme à l'envers | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | L'Homme aux cercles bleus | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.30 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | Jeux de l'amour et de la mort | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £7.30 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | Pars vite et reviens tard | |
| French: Crime Fiction Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Vargas, Fred | Un peu plus loin sur la droite | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £5.70 | ||
| Vargas, Fred | Sans feu ni lieu | |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £6.15 | ||
| Vautrin, J. | Billy-ze-Kick | Co-founder of the "Néo-polar" movement in France and former Goncourt winner. A policeman thinks he's going to have an easy time during his boss" absence until his daughter Julie-Berthe comes on board! |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £3.50 | ||
| Y.B. | Commissaire Krim | From the author of successful novel "Allah Superstar," a policeman investigates the death of a muslim woman among the young people in the city and Islamists. A humorous and gritty parody, mixing a Beckett-like style with the classic detective story. |
| French: Crime Fiction Price: £20.30 | ||
