French Suspense

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY “[Tana French is] required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence, and ingenious plotting.” —The New York Times A New York Times bestselling novel in the Dublin Murder Squad series that “proves anew...

French Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level – Mystery and Suspense Edition is a captivating collection designed for learners at the B1 level who want to take their French reading skills to the next level while diving into thrilling tales of mystery and suspense. This edition features 30 short stories crafted to engage your curiosity and challenge your language abilities.

Althea is done with games. It’s time to right the wrongs that began decades ago. There will be no more murders while she is in New Orleans … unless the killer gets to her first. With tensions escalating in the paranormal community, trust is in short supply, even within her own coven. Determined, Althea teams up with her closest friends to uncover haunting truths. As if the existing challenges weren’t enough, Althea also wrestles with family secrets, which could change everything.

In this “skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish” (Fresh Fiction), family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller. In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher...

Jack is stunned to receive a call from his estranged mother, Sybil, asking him to drop everything and come to France. Together with Flora, his fellow sleuth, they pack their suitcases, dreaming of fragrant lavender fields and freshly baked pain au chocolat. It’s only when they arrive that they discover the shocking truth—Sybil’s friend was killed on a street in Paris, and she is desperate for their help.

Late spring, 1936. As Kitty Underhay steps onto the sun-drenched station platform in Nice, on orders from Whitehall to track down a missing man, she hopes there will still be time to lie by the pool, preferably with a cocktail in hand. But when she and her husband Matt take a brief evening stroll, instead of finding a perfect croissant, they stumble across a body. Kitty and Matt quickly realise it is Fred Bennett, the man from Whitehall they were hoping to find. Had he simply drunk too much fabulous French wine, or is something fishy going on in this seaside city?

Venise, 1725. Alors qu'une épidémie de variole ravage la population, l'une des femmes les plus illustres de la ville est retrouvée la poitrine ouverte dans l'eau glacée. Giovanni Antonio Canal, dit « Canaletto » est convoqué pour l'une de ses œuvres qui représentent exactement ce lieu : existe-t-il un lien entre le peintre et ce meurtre ? Le Doge de Venise lui confie alors une mission délicate : enquêter discrètement sur cette affaire de meurtre.

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 ...

Tout le monde a quelque chose à cacher. Mais certains secrets sont plus terribles que d’autres… Au cœur de la nuit, un meurtre a eu lieu dans le manoir de Romain Delatour, célèbre auteur de thrillers. Trois ans plus tard, alors qu'il tente de tourner la page en publiant son nouveau roman...

Toute cette affaire n'avait au départ l'air de rien : un gamin fugueur qui se réfugie dans un cabanon et se nourrit en se servant dans les placards d'une vieille dame. Mais quand le shérif Walt Longmire essaie de ramener Cord chez lui, il se retrouve face à une propriété gardée par des miradors qui abrite une communauté polygame. Et tout ce petit monde, orchestré par un patriarche habile et un homme de main au passé trouble, affirme ne rien savoir de l'adolescent. Le shérif s'engage alors avec son équipe dans une enquête très glissante dont ils ne ressortiront pas indemnes.

Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France for the season. She plans to do what a glamorous lady abroad should: long lunches on the balcony followed by lazy afternoons lounging by the pool. But when Clifford examines the wine cellar, he discovers there are no decent reds, but there is a very dead body. The victim is famous American movie-star Rex Armstrong. Poor Rex seems to have been stabbed with a sword from the film set. So how did he end up in Eleanor’s villa?

Le 11-Septembre n'était que le début ! Vingt années se sont écoulées depuis que les États-Unis ont été attaqués sur leur territoire et qu'ils ont décidé de faire payer les coupables. Mais dans l'ombre, l'ennemi a été patient. Il a appris et s'est adapté. Et il est prêt à frapper à nouveau.

Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery?

Tired of boring textbooks and children's stories? Finding authentic French literature too overwhelming? Imagine improving your French fluency with a story so captivating, you forget you’re even studying. A story that keeps you on the edge of your seat, turning pages late into the night. Welcome to Les Voix Oubliées (The Forgotten Voices), the psychological thriller specifically written for intermediate to advanced French learners (B2-C1) who are ready to take their skills to the next level. When Alex inherits an old stone house deep in the French countryside, he hopes to escape the ...

Yet again, Lizzie has taken on the task of organising the annual summer getaway in France for her longtime friend group. After all, she’s got the time: The others are married, with families and high-powered jobs, while Lizzie is a perpetually single personal assistant. This year, though, she’s excited to show off her charming new boyfriend, Mal. While the holiday group chat buzzes with questions for Lizzie, Mal stays quiet, but once they gather at the château, he’s all charisma—even as dangerous mishaps begin to mount.

In the hallowed city of Tours, the death of a sixteen-year-old dressed as an 'Immortal Knight' appears to be a tragic overdose. Juge d'instruction Matthieu Lombard is called in to investigate. When, weeks later, a provocative author is found brutally murdered, Lombard suspects the two deaths are connected by a sinister, coercive force. As he digs deeper, the case begins to challenge his loyalties and unearth disturbing echoes from his own past. What started as apparent roleplay turns into something far darker — and far deadlier.

It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal.

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...

Murder is never pretty In the vibrant chaos of French Quarter Fest in Orleans, P.I. Wyatt Thomas faces a daunting task—recovering a stolen treasure that transcends the boundaries of mere literature. The missing item is no ordinary book; it’s the priceless first edition of Mosquitos, William Faulkner’s legendary tale of New Orleans dynasties. As Wyatt delves into the underbelly of the city’s secrets, he discovers that a powerful patriarch from the Garden District is willing to pay a staggering million dollars for its return. The question looms: What dark revelations lie within the ...

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 ...