French Noir

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.

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 ...

Un livre intemporel qui s'est imposé comme un classique de notre temps. L'enfant noir grandit dans un village de Haute-Guinée où le merveilleux côtoie quotidiennement la réalité. Son père, forgeron, travaille l'or au rythme de la harpe des griots et des incantations aux génies du feu et du vent. Respectée de tous, sa mère jouit de mystérieux pouvoirs sur les êtres et les choses. Elle sait détourner les sortilèges et tenir à l'écart les crocodiles du fleuve Niger. Aîné de la famille, le petit garçon est destiné à prendre la relève de son père à l'atelier et, surtout, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 the living sleep, the dead come out to drink In the sultry haze of New Orleans, where shadows whisper secrets and history bleeds through the soil, private investigator Wyatt Thomas—renowned for untangling the city’s haunted past—tackles the enigma of Belle Reve’s destruction. The antebellum plantation mansion lies in charred ruins, officially blamed on an electrical fault. But the streets hum with darker tales: arson fueled by vengeance, fanned by social media vitriol hailing the fire as “justice” for the estate’s brutal slaveholding legacy. Some point to descendants of ...

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 ...

A broken investigator, an island full of secrets, and a Cajun legend that hunts by the light of the moon Out of work, grieving, and nursing a bruised soul with a stiff drink, disbarred-attorney-turned-paranormal-P.I. Wyatt Thomas is in no position to turn down a payday. When a prominent movie producer hires him to investigate a grisly murder at a secluded island resort, Wyatt leaves the French Quarter for the wetlands of south Louisiana. Located just forty miles south of New Orleans, Goose Island feels like another world. It is a bizarre refuge shared by Hollywood elite, eccentric artists, ...

Trois femmes vivaient dans un village. La première était méchante, la deuxième était menteuse, la troisième était égoïste. Elles possédaient pourtant un point commun, un secret en quelque sorte : toutes les trois rêvaient de fuir... Le jour paraît sur Giverny. Du haut de son moulin, une vieille dame veille, surveille. Le quotidien du village, les cars de touristes... Des silhouettes et des vies. Deux femmes, en particulier, se détachent : l'une, les yeux couleur nymphéa, rêve d'amour et d'évasion ; l'autre, onze ans, ne vit déjà que pour la peinture.

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...

Turner Classic Movies host and Dark City Dames author Eddie Muller and Criterion Channel host Imogen Sara Smith offer an essential tour of international film noir, highlighting renowned movie classics and obscure noir masterpieces from around the world. Film noir has long been considered...

It's not good to live in the past; even worse to die in it Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas awakens from a vivid dream in his French Quarter apartment. He finds an antique double-moonstone pendant placed in his hand by the ghost of a voodoo mambo. One of the two moonstones is missing, and both gemstones are needed to make the pendant magical. The rightful owner of the pendant is a supernatural fairy named Maurelle. Someone chopped off Maurelle’s wings and buried her alive in the ruins of a French Quarter Creole townhouse. A mystical beast still haunts the grounds of the estate. Now, ...

Dans cette version vous trouverez une biographie détaillée de l'auteur. L'ouvrage s'ouvre sur une citation d'Aimé Césaire : « Je parle de millions d'hommes à qui on a inculqué savamment la peur, le complexe d'infériorité, le tremblement, l'agenouillement, le désespoir, le larbinisme. » Il s'agit de faire une analyse, d'un point de vue psychologique de ce que le colonialisme a laissé en héritage à l'humanité, et ceci en partant du rapport entre le Noir et le Blanc. C'est tout un jeu de définitions qui se font par différenciation, et pour cela le premier chapitre pose des ...

"Bill Nighy is The Yellow Dog’s narrator, and he has a ball voicing [author Martin] Amis’s larger-than-life protagonists...Nighy succeeds not only in making the characters believable but great fun to be around." — The Guardian An eerie mystery in which a local wine dealer is shot and a...

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.