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.

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.

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 ...

A triple murder in Moscow’s famous Gorky Park amusement centre rocks the capital - three corpses found in the snow, so badly mutilated that their identities can’t be verified. Chief Investigator Arkady Renko from the Moscow police takes the case. Renko is a brilliant investigator - dangerously so. Now, to identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and the police - and stay alive doing it.

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.

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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.

Certains crimes refusent de rester enfouis… En congé de la police du Kent, le DCI David Garrick se rend aux États-Unis, bien décidé à tourner enfin la page sur le meurtre brutal de sa sœur — une affaire liée à un club grotesque de tueurs en série. Accompagné de la journaliste Molly Meyers, Garrick découvre vite que traquer des meurtriers de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique est bien plus dangereux qu’il ne l’imaginait. Et le dernier tueur encore en vie n’a aucune intention de le laisser trouver la paix — le jeu ne fait que commencer. Alors que la frontière entre ...

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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...

In Wolves Eat Dogs, beloved detective Arkady Renko enters the privileged world of Russia's new billionaire class. The grandest of them all, a self-made powerhouse named Pasha Ivanov, has apparently leapt to his death from the palatial splendor of his ultra-modern Moscow condominium. While there are no signs pointing to homicide, there is one troubling and puzzling bit of evidence: in Ivanov's bedroom closet, there's a mountain of salt.

Et si nos proches n'étaient pas ce que nous croyions ? "Tu l'as laissée mourir..." Le soir de Noël, Christine Steinmeyer, animatrice radio à Toulouse, trouve dans sa boîte aux lettres le courrier d'une femme qui annonce son suicide. Elle est convaincue que le message ne lui est pas destiné. Erreur ? Canular ? Quand le lendemain, en direct, un auditeur l'accuse de n'avoir pas réagi, il n'est plus question de malentendu.

Au pied des sommets enneigés des Alpes françaises, un chef cuisinier en disgrâce, Gabriel Lefèvre, voit son existence déjà bouleversée se compliquer encore, lorsqu'une jeune Américaine est trouvée en danger de mort au pied du funiculaire du Mont-Blanc. Un unique indice semble permettre de l’identifier : la jeune femme s’est fait tatouer sur le bras d'étranges coordonnées géographiques. Des montagnes alpines aux rues animées de New York, des secrets enfouis depuis des décennies vont refaire surface. Scandales dans l'univers du vin, amours perdues, trahisons familiales et ...

UN PASSÉ OBSCUR, UNE TRAQUE SANS RÉPIT — LA VÉRITÉ POURRAIT TOUT DÉTRUIRE. DCI David Garrick est hanté par son passé — et cela va coûter encore plus de vies. Encore marqué par le meurtre brutal de sa sœur et tourmenté par des visions qu’il ne peut expliquer, Garrick peine à maintenir son équipe à flot lorsque des corps atrocement mutilés commencent à apparaître dans les villages idylliques du Kent. Chaque victime porte la même signature macabre : une trophée taillé dans la chair de la victime. En creusant plus profondément, Garrick découvre un monde clandestin de...

Ce qui devait être une croisière de rêve sur la Méditerranée se transforme en un jeu mortel. Gabriel Caballero, journaliste et détective à ses heures, embarque à bord du somptueux Sol Bahía pour rédiger un article sur l’univers feutré des riches et des célébrités. Mais la mort soudaine d’un chef fantasque fait de lui le suspect numéro un d’un meurtre sanglant. Tandis que le paquebot fend les eaux bleues du large, Gabriel mène sa propre enquête. Dans chaque couloir, un ennemi possible. Derrière chaque sourire, un secret mal dissimulé. Et plus il s’approche de la ...

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...