Polar Thriller

Mitch Matthews is writer struggling to make ends meet when his wife's brother offers them a first-class seat on a flight from Hong Kong to New York. When his wife needs to stay behind, it becomes an opportunity for some quality daddy-daughter time with his five-year-old Lilly. At check-in, they run into a strange Norwegian arguing with a huge Russian. A mysterious redhead is guarding a package in the business lounge. But everything is fine...right up until the event. Within hours of Allied Airlines 695 disappearing, a massive international search is launched.

When two killings take place thousands of miles apart in Canada and Alaska, Detective Bernadette Callahan's instincts tell her there's a link. But her superiors disagree, and they move to silence her. Undeterred, Callahan delves deeper and finds an ally deep in rural Alaska. A fellow detective, also under pressure to close his inquiries. The pair are forced into the shadows to work, where they uncover unlikely suspects and a conspiracy linked to Alaska's billion-dollar oil supply.

In 2040, as poachers close in on the last polar bear on earth, an Inuit scientist named Nuli must use her abilities to save the bear’s life, even at the risk of her own. Nuli feels caught between two cultures, but when she develops a shamanic gift to communicate with the bear she calls Anuk, her mystical revelation is mind-blowing; Anuk has a plan of her own.

Chill of Truth: A Murder Mystery Danger and Betrayal in the Arctic Polar Bear Capital When world-famous supermodel Elena Hart boards a private jet to the remote polar bear capital of Churchill, Manitoba, she expects an icy photo shoot—not a deadly mystery at 35,000 feet. But when she’s found dead mid-flight, her entourage of friends, rivals, and hidden enemies become prime suspects. Enter Detective Ethan Steele—trapped in an isolated Arctic lodge with a killer among them. With a vicious snowstorm closing in and time running out, Steele must unravel layers of deception, betrayal, and ...

Dans la salle de rédaction à moitié vide d’un quotidien, où trainent encore des guirlandes de Noël, des reporters rentrent lentement au travail, tandis qu’à Saint-Albert-sur-le-Lac, village niché au coeur des Cantons-de-l’Est, on constate les conséquences tragiques d’un incendie. Le journaliste Michel Duquesne est dépêché sur place. Une révélation étonnante, puis des traces emprisonnées dans la glace vont l’amener sur une piste qui l’exposera à des dangers insoupçonnés, tout en réveillant en lui des monstres de son enfance.

The elf had been murdered, that much was evident... Christmas is only days away, and Santa is facing the greatest crisis of his career. Pinkie Merryvale, head of the elves' union, has been brutally murdered, the most obvious suspect none other than Santa himself - for years he and Merryvale had clashed over the working conditions of the North Pole's workforce. The elves, worked to exhaustion, issue an ultimatum in response. If Santa can't find the killer and prove his innocence before Christmas Eve, they STRIKE, and Christmas worldwide will be ruined.

In the second installment in the Arkady Renko series from internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, Renko goes up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web and discovering more than he bargained for. Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town...

Detective Arkady Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—returns in this tense thriller set amid the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith’s celebrated Arkady Renko series, the legendary Moscow...

The Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times). It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen...

A gripping science thriller in the Arctic! Mysterious nanoparticles in a Greenland ice core confront biologist Nora Grimm with a fascinating puzzle. At first, she believes the 400,000-year-old ice is contaminated. But then the bizarre crystals suddenly show signs of life. Nora realizes that she has discovered far more than just prehistoric climate records. Also, Exobiologist Robert Greaves is on his way to Greenland to investigate a connection to a similar finding by the Mars rover Curiosity. Is this really an extraterrestrial life form that has been lying slumbering in obscurity since ...

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A Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko series. In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and...

« 18 décembre 1897, Massif des Carpates Un refuge isolé. Un corps. Une mort mystérieuse. Alexander Hartman, détective expert en langues et symboles, et sa fille Lucy sont entraînés dans une enquête macabre où les morts s'accumulent. Tandis qu'ils sont confrontés à des tragédies liées à un ancien manuscrit disparu, le Livre d’or, leur quête les mène face à leurs terreurs les plus profondes. Pourront-ils démêler les fils de ce mystère avant qu'il ne soit trop tard ? » Par l’auteur d’ « Aztèques », roman lauréat du Salon du Livre Paris 2017 par le jury Amazon KDP...

Pour Laura Badía, l’experte en criminalistique chargée de l’enquête, cette affaire est celle de sa vie: il va lui falloir élucider un assassinat d’une extrême sauvagerie et la disparition du domicile de la victime de treize pointes de flèches taillées par le peuple Tehuelche il y a des milliers d’années. Une collection dont tout le monde parle mais que presque personne n’a jamais vue, qui renferme la clé d’un des plus grands mystères archéologiques de notre temps, dont la valeur scientifique est inestimable, tout comme sa valeur sur le marché noir.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton and his team suppress a mass shooting attempt in the tiny coastal town he calls home, the realization of how deadly his life has become sends him on a journey to separate himself from that violence and save his relationship with the woman he loves. The laidback holiday promises to rekindle the relationship and heal old wounds, until a brutal attack leaves a beloved friend fighting for her life. Chase has no choice but to put his experience, training, and lethal skill set back into action to find and eliminate the threat.

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From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a mystery that reaches international proportions in this entertaining fourth title in the Arkady Renko series. Former Inspector for the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko, is summoned to Cuba to identify a liquefying...

Une onde de choc parcourt le prestigieux lycée international de Garches lorsqu’une enseignante est retrouvée étranglée dans sa salle de classe. Peu après, le corps sans vie d’un agent d’entretien est découvert sur les lieux. Quel est le lien entre les deux victimes ? Un tueur en série rôde-t-il dans cette banlieue huppée ? Confronté à l’hostilité de puissants parents d’élèves qui ne font pas confiance à un policier de banlieue, le capitaine Thomas Sturm devra lutter pour conserver la responsabilité de l’enquête. Et surtout, il lui faudra lutter pour percer une ...

Back from exile, Renko must defeat the powerful black-market crime lords in this third installment to the Arkady Renko series by internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith. Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his...

Six cadavres dans une casse automobile. Une voiture explose au démarrage : aucun survivant. Qui rôde derrière ces meurtres en cascade? Et quel lien entre ces victimes? Pour découvrir la vérité, le capitaine Thomas Sturm ira jusqu’en Calabre, où plane l’ombre de la mafia locale, la terrible ‘ndrangheta. Et soudain, Sturm et son équipe sont en danger de mort.