French Noir

There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return. While Wyatt is time traveling, detective Tony ...

Following the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city.

You can die and you can lose your soul. They aren't the same. The pandemic is over, Jazz Fest pending in New Orleans, and French Quarter private detective Wyatt Thomas has a new client. Dita Lika, the headliner of this year's Jazz Fest is having a recurrent nightmare related to New Orleans. Will Wyatt solve the mystery of her Satan-related nightmare, or will the Prince of Darkness prevail, claim their souls and drag them both to hell? Take an intoxicating ride with Wyatt Thomas, the French Quarter's favorite private investigator, and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate as they chase the answers on an ...

Publié en 1830, Le Rouge et le Noir de Stendhal est un roman historique et psychologique qui dépeint l’ascension sociale et les ambitions de Julien Sorel, un jeune homme ambitieux issu d'une famille modeste. À travers ses tentatives pour gravir les échelons de la société, il se trouve souvent dans les intrigues au milieu de personnes influentes. Satire mordante de la société française du XIXe siècle, l'œuvre s'attaque aux hypocrisies de l'Église et des aristocraties, tout en constatant la folie des actions du protagoniste.

Bizarre New Orleans Death Ceremony Ends in Murder French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas meets a new client at an bizarre death ceremony in a revamped Canal Street movie theater. The man gives Wyatt a bag of cash and a single clue: a solid gold Krewe of Rex, 1948 Mardi Gras doubloon. His only request is for Wyatt to find the person or persons who murdered his mother. The case isn't simply cold, it's 50-years old. When his client is shot dead on the way out the door, Wyatt must go into hiding, solve both murders, or suffer the same fate

Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate suffers a fate worse than death A grieving couple hires paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas to find the person who killed their son. But is it murder if the victim isn’t dead? Wyatt goes undercover to discover the answer and soon learns death isn’t always a person’s worst fate. Will Wyatt solve the sticky mystery or fall victim to the seemingly supernatural killer and suffer a fate worse than death? Half Past Midnight is Book 10 of Eric Wilder’s intoxicating French Quarter Mystery Series set in that ‘exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans. Visit the ...

Le Chat noir relate l'implacable chute d'un homme. C'est l'une des nouvelles qui ont assuré la célébrité d'Edgar Poe, et ont décidé Charles Baudelaire...

Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas treks into the dangerous Honey Island Swamp in search of a forbidden convent where all the sisters are vampires When French Quarter detective Wyatt Thomas is awakened from a dark dream by his cat Kisses, he witnesses an eerie funeral procession from the balcony of his Chartres Street apartment. Riding in the limousine ahead of a hearse is his former lover, Desire Vallee - the first time he’s seen her since she became a nun and entered a convent. Desire’s skin is ashen, her once dark hair now ghostly white. He's left with a single clue. Is Desire in ...

When fates intertwine amid the madness of Mardi Gras, chaos reigns supreme. In the haunted French Quarter, where Creole spirits drift through Mardi Gras chaos, a malicious voodoo curse sparks mayhem in the Crescent City’s underground world. When a crew boat sinks, releasing sociopathic assassin Jacque Leguerre, the vengeful killer storms into New Orleans, hell-bent on making Catholic priest Father Alphonso pay for past sins in a chilling New Orleans noir story of paranormal crime. N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia hunts the ruthless mob murderer responsible for a brutal killing, ...

Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there. When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by ...

French Quarter P.I. Wyatt Thomas deals with murder and illusion at the Louisiana Hospital of the Insane Secrets fester, and danger lurks in the shadowed depths of Louisiana's bayous. Private investigator Wyatt Thomas is summoned to the sleepy town of Pinebridge by notorious mob boss Frankie Castellano. His mission is to find Frankie’s missing half-sister, Bella Donna Castellano, who vanished from the Louisiana Mental Hospital under suspicious circumstances. On his first night in town, Wyatt stumbles upon a gruesome murder, drawing him into a web of corruption and cruelty. Partnering with ...

A méga-cowboy milliardaire + une star de la musique sous couverture = un romance soap ultra torride Après que Layla Matthews a choisi son frère jumeau identique plutôt que lui, Andrew Sinclair part s’installer dans le Montana, jurant d’oublier l’ex-petite amie qui lui a échappé. Mais quand elle débarque au Montana—plus insolente et plus sexy qu’il ne s’en souvenait—et qu’elle cherche refuge dans son ranch pour invités, il ne sait pas combien de temps il pourra tenir sa promesse… ni résister à l’envie d’embraser ses nuits du Montana. Sauf que cette Layla ...

Son harceleur de lycée… est aujourd’hui son PATRON ! Il y a quinze ans, Josie Witherspoon a juré de quitter l’Alabama et de ne plus jamais, au grand jamais, penser à Beau Prescott, le riche quarterback du lycée qui lui a brisé le cœur. Eh bien… La vie n’a pas vraiment suivi ce plan. Après un mariage désastreux qui s’est soldé par un échec, elle se retrouve de retour en Alabama, à travailler comme femme de ménage pour Beau Prescott, désormais quarterback professionnel, après qu’une terrible blessure a bouleversé sa vie. Son plan : rester discrète, faire son ...

Tragiquement connue pour son histoire violente et chaotique ainsi que pour la catastrophe qui l’a frappé en 2010, Haïti est le pays le plus pauvre des Amériques - et l’un des plus riches sur le plan littéraire. Cette anthologie de dix-huit nouvelles, projet lancé avant le tremblement de terre, réaffirme le talent des auteurs contemporains haïtiens, aussi bien francophones qu’anglophones, qu’ils vivent sur place ou qu’ils soient issus de la diaspora, sur un terrain où ils ne sont pas forcément attendus : le genre noir.

Beneath the glitter of Mardi Gras lies the sleaze of Bourbon Street; under the celestial sounds of JazzFest, the nightmare screams of a city once at war within its neighborhoods, but after Hurricane Katrina, seemingly at war with nature and the rest of the country as well. New Orleans is a third world country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a Puritan nation.

Ils se sont réveillés derrière des miroirs. Aucune porte. Aucune issue. Aucune pitié. Elle aurait dû rentrer chez elle après la fête. À la place, elle s’est réveillée dans une cellule — nue, dépouillée de ses choix, de son nom. Et il était là, lui aussi. Dean. Le meilleur ami de son frère. Son obsession secrète. Désormais son seul allié en enfer. Leur geôlier voit tout. Exige l’obéissance. Punit la moindre révolte par la souffrance. Récompense la honte par le silence. Ici, la douleur est l’ordre. La peur est l’intimité. L’humiliation est la langue de la ...

Il n’a aucune conscience quand il s’agit d’elle… et elle n’a nulle part où aller. Cera Winslow, future professeure, est à trois jours de se retrouver à la rue lorsqu’un chèque de banque arrive, avec un seul mot sur la ligne « mémo » : JUIN. Au moment où elle est la plus désespérée, un mystérieux bienfaiteur se présente et lui offre plus d’argent qu’elle n’en a jamais rêvé… en échange de trois choses : JUIN, JUILLET et AOÛT. Il la veut. Dans son lit. Tout l’été. Sauf que Cera ignore qui il est… Pourquoi il fait ça… Et ce qu’il peut bien vouloir...

In this first installment in Georges Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of doubles, intrigue, and hidden crimes. When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from...

Nouvelle édition, regroupant les quatre tomes du Mage de la tour noire.

No one is who they seem Private Investigator Wyatt Thomas takes a seductive journey through the dark, glittering streets of New Orleans, where passion and danger collide. Wyatt is no stranger to the Crescent City’s secrets, but when a mysterious voodoo mambo draws him into the heart of the French Quarter’s underworld, he finds himself entangled in a web of deceit, lust, and murder. As the nights grow hotter, so do the stakes, and Wyatt must navigate the twisted desires of the city’s most dangerous inhabitants. But in the world of the Night People, no one is who they seem—and Wyatt ...