by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon (2016)
"Une fille possédée par le diable, des villageois qui meurent chaque jour, une abbaye hantée depuis la mort de son abbé, une mystérieuse Dame blanche errant dans la forêt ... Le mal aurait-il envahi cette vallée perdue de Savoie? Et qui est cette jeune fille à la capuche rouge qui semble ne pas avoir peur du loup? Sur le chemin qui les ramène de Venise à Paris, le commissaire aux morts étranges et son père vont profiter de leur étape dans ce lieu insolite et reculé pour opposer les préceptes de la raison aux manifestations de l'inexplicable. Temporairement aveugle, le chevalier de Volnay doit s'en remettre à l'ingénue Violetta et à ses sens exacerbés par la tension ambiante. Son père, quant à lui, cache tant bien que mal son excitation sous sa robe de bure : car quoi de plus tentant, pour un moine hérétique, que de s'entretenir avec le diable lui-même? Quelque part entre 'L'exorciste', 'Le nom de la rose' et 'Le petit chaperon rouge', 'Entretien avec le diable' est sans conteste le volet le plus détonnant dans la série du commissaire aux morts étranges." [Source : 4e de couv.]
Georges Simenon
From amazon.com: "Prewar Paris - where buses still sported outside platforms and every neighborhood its own bistro, policemen took time for human problems, and car fumes hadn't yet smothered the smell of chestnut blossoms - serves as the setting for these seventeen stories, featuring Simenon's legendary Jules Maigret."
Lis Howell
In picturesque Tarnfield in the north of England, feuds and rivalries between the villagers typically lie dormant. The local vicar decides to shake the community up, bringing together an unlikely alliance between Suzy Spencer, a working mother, part-time television producer and full time mess, and Robert Clark, a conservative, "Mr. Perfect" widower from the parish. But the deadly flower arranger has already struck.
Janet Neel
"The death of shady businessman William Price during what seems to be a bizarre sexual experiment in auto-asphyxia begins the unravelling of a web of deceit, fraud, drug abuse, and domestic violence. Detective John McLeish is distracted by having to work with an old flame whilst his usually supremely confident wife Francesca, currently volunteering at a refuge for women escaping violent partners, finds herself attracted to a new flame. The biggest threat posed by the investigation just might be collateral damage to McLeish's marriage."-- cover page [4].
Peter May
Enzo Macleod is facing a death sentence. Having been diagnosed with a terminal illness, time is running out to solve the most confounding of unsolved murders in France. But as he begins investigating the death of a rent-boy in a Parisian apartment, he suddenly finds himself under arrest. Someone is threatening to destroy his character. Someone is trying to frame him for murder. If he can use his genius for forensics to crack the cold case, he might dodge one fatal blow before another strikes.