French Noir

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 ...

Dark, twisty and compulsively readable, Annika is for fans of Gillian Flynn and Lisa Jewell. Behind every family story lies another no one dares to tell. Annika pushes her baby's stroller into the snow and disappears. Her partner, Harvey, reports her missing, but his story has cracks the police can't ignore. In Indiana, thirteen-year-old Daphne insists trouble always finds her. Living with a father she can't trust, she writes stories no one wants to believe. But this time, the trouble closing in will change more than her own life. Taut and unsettling, Annika is a novel of fractured families...

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 ...

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, ...

Publié en 1830, "Le rouge et le noir" est un monument de la littérature française. Roman réaliste où l'ambition côtoie la cruauté d'une jeunesse inconsciente. Julien Sorel, fil de charpentier, veut gravir les échelon de la société,pour cela deux carrières s'offrent à lui : le clergé ou le militaire ; c'est finalement par les femmes que Julien parviendra à ses fins.

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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

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.

Description Description du produit Un cœur pur peut illuminer la nuit la plus noire. Même au cours de la plus terrible époque de l'Histoire. Jocelyne est la gardienne de la Bibliothèque de Saint-Malo, une orpheline qui se raccroche à la littérature et à son mari, Antoine. Mais le couple est en danger : l'arrivée des troupes allemandes dans la ville, notamment celle du commandant Adolf Bauman qui a pour mission de dérober certains des ouvrages incunables que protège jalousement la bibliothèque, a décidé de mettre un terme à son bonheur. Le capitaine Hermann von Choltitz, un ...

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, ...

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

A killer who stages his victims like works of art. A detective who refuses to look away. When the body of a young woman is found posed with unnerving precision behind an abandoned warehouse on Cleveland’s riverfront, Major Crimes Detective Marisa DiBenedetto is called in. Soon, more victims appear, each arranged with the same grotesque signature. A pattern is emerging, and it’s terrifying. This is no ordinary investigation. The killer is watching. A devoted mother of four, Marisa has built her life on faith, family, and an unshakable sense of justice. But as media pressure intensifies, ...

J’étais professeure et j’apprenais aux femmes à donner un nom à leurs ombres – jusqu’au jour où quelqu’un a transformé la mienne en arme. Un cours magistral. Un flux piraté. Mes recherches privées se sont déversées dans les haut-parleurs, mêlées au bruit de ma propre chute. Ils m’ont licenciée, filmée, transformée en blague ambulante avec un doctorat. Puis un testament, une clé, une maison accrochée à la falaise : Whisper House. Des miroirs voilés. Des couloirs secrets. Des caméras qui clignent comme des yeux. Et trois hommes qui portent leurs masques comme ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...