Novel / Adventure

The rising new generation of French-language romance offers you these 16 stories where passion, love, feelings, eroticism, tenderness and Valentine's Day are intertwined.
For Valentine's Day, 17 authors open their hearts to their readers. Take them in your hands and enjoy.

"A deep dive into the mind and impulses of a serial killer." Le Journal du dimanche

Delve into the private life of an anonymous serial killer,
A sociopath who is both frightening and fascinating.
From the initial act with a first victim to its grim denouement, the book takes you on a spiral of horror, dark humor, and social satire.
A blood-curdling journey that will leave you changed.

Jadowia, Poland. A land of heavy fields and dense forests, of gray souls and crimson sunsets. Though communist totalitarianism fell a few years earlier, its shadow still hangs over the village. Thus, Tomek's murder follows the established pattern: silence, oblivion, a pall of gloom. Only Leszek, an educated peasant, seems concerned with explaining it. But at what cost? The roots of this cowardly, collective guilt run far too deep, too ancient—and the dead do not forgive.

Are human beings uniquely endowed with a mind that strives to understand, interpret, and communicate, and the only ones to have invented instruments that peer into the depths of galaxies? Certainly not. We don't yet know where they are, how they live, or what they look like. But we can be sure that life exists elsewhere, somewhere among the hundreds of billions of stars and planets in the known universe.

"The green ogre had just accepted the mission entrusted to him by the stunted prince when the tires of the Kangoo crunched across the gravel in the courtyard. I froze the image on the screen and grabbed the rifle. I had already loaded it. I slowly walked around the sofa I was sitting on. I knelt down and placed the double-barreled shotgun on the garnet velvet back. The gravel began to crunch again. But this time, it was the footsteps of Mom and Luc that were making the noise. The door opened."

Married and father of a little girl named Héloïse, Hugues has just realized his greatest dream: owning a hotel on New York's Upper East Side. The only cloud on the horizon is that his wife is leaving him for another man. For Héloïse, the Hôtel Vendôme quickly becomes her home. She grows up there among the prestigious guests and staff, developing a strong character. A character that will give her father a run for his money... More than 90 novels published, 800 million copies sold worldwide

Back cover: Ángel Ros loves danger, the literature of Joyce, and the music of The Doors. During a summer in Barcelona, this young, aspiring writer falls for Ana, an eccentric South American woman, whom he follows like a shadow to the darkest depths into which her madness leads her. In their suicidal wanderings, this breathless couple will love each other, lose each other, gamble with their lives and the lives of others, terrorize and massacre absurdly in their search for an improbable escape.

Imagine this: you're strolling along the San Francisco waterfront on a Sunday when suddenly a bohemian woman grabs your hand to read your fortune. Amused, you let her, but in that instant her gaze freezes, she turns ashen. What she's about to tell you… you wish you hadn't heard it. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same, and it will be impossible to stay on the tracks of your usual routine. This is what happens to Jonathan in Laurent Gounelle's new novel.

Following The Heretical Gospel, Adrian Dawson, the new master of the esoteric thriller, delves into one of the Templars' best-kept secrets. 1132: Returning from Jerusalem, the Templars discreetly bring one of their most mysterious acquisitions back to the south of France. 1645: An unknown artist commissions the Flemish painter Teniers the Younger to create a painting depicting Saint Anthony and Saint Paul.

Our main character is a call center operator like so many others, in a company of the ever-increasing number. You'll never see his face. You won't even know his first name, since the company that employs him has given him another one. He's the one who finally answers after you've pressed the star, three, six, pound, and star keys in succession. 'Eric at your service.' Eric? No need to remember. On your next call