French Crime Fiction

In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie...

The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on...

Brought to you by Penguin. Return to the dark underbelly of Ardnakelty in the thrilling new sequel to The Searcher. It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. Two years have passed since retired Police Detective Cal Hooper...

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?

La sœur de Lana Fleming a mystérieusement disparu du tournage de la série télévisée la plus regardée d’Amérique, et personne ne semble s’en préoccuper. Déterminée à obtenir des réponses, Lana décide de se glisser sur le plateau en tant que figurante. Elle se retrouve coincée avec Griffin Hart, une star de films d’action connue pour ses abdominaux parfaits et sa tendance à prendre de mauvaises décisions.

Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place, is still on the Murder squad, but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going well - but the rest of her working life isn't. Antoinette doesn't play well with others, and there's a vicious running...

Following the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city.

Florence et Julian Livingstone, un couple d’Américains fortunés, réunissent chaque été un petit cercle d’amis dans leur somptueuse maison du cap d’Antibes, la Villa Starlight. Mais ce monde idyllique s’effondre la nuit où Oscar, leur fils de trois ans, est enlevé dans des conditions mystérieuses.

A frantic phone call from an old and dear friend on the other side of the world sends Henrie O to San Antonio, Texas, in search of her friend's granddaughter, Iris Chavez. Iris had been working at the family-owned Tesoros Gallery, a shop renowned for the priceless treasures it hunts for its...

Quatre noms sur une liste. Quatre victimes introuvables. Comment les identifier et briser le silence ? L'adjudant Maxime Monceau, spécialiste du langage non verbal, se voit chargé d'enquêter sur une affaire mystérieuse qui met la Brigade de recherches dans une impasse. Un homme étrange s'est présenté de lui-même à la gendarmerie pour s'accuser d'assassinat. Problème, hormis une unique phrase qu'il psalmodie en boucle, l'inconnu reste totalement muet sur son identité et les raisons qui l'ont poussé à l'acte.

A New York Times bestseller and a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, The Boston Globe, LitHub, Vulture, Slate, Elle, Vox, and Electric Literature “Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet.” —The New York Times An “extraordinary”...

The Red Room is a terrifying and gripping psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French. Enter the Red Room - where nightmares become reality. He almost took your life. Now his is in your hands… After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious.

(11th in Dead on Demand series) The Women's Club prides itself on the success of its annual White Elephant Sale, but this year's sale is marred by a bizarre turn. A blackmailer coerces five of the town's citizens into donating valuable artifacts. When a volunteer fails to show up on time, Henny...

In his latest adventure Bruno, France's favourite country cop, investigates a long-buried war crime and faces a devastating flood that threatens the town he polices and the people he loves. 'FRENCH TOURISM SHOULD RAISE A GLASS TO WALKER'S DORDOGNE MYSTERIES' Daily Mail The long arm of history...

Automne 1910. Ophélie a quinze ans lorsque son père, un éminent juge montréalais, la confie au monastère des Augustines, à Québec. La faute qu’elle a commise dépasse l’entendement, argue-t-il, pour cette infâme, c’est le cloître ou la prison ! Abandonnée dans le silence, l’adolescente est en proie à une profonde détresse. Au fil des ans, devenue sœur Marie-Hosanna, religieuse infirmière, elle parvient à donner un sens nouveau à sa vie en soignant les malades, jusqu’au jour où, à vingt-deux ans, son désir de liberté se fait trop pressant…

Best Book of 2020 New York Times |NPR | New York Post "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet . . . Its own kind of masterpiece." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "A new Tana French is always cause for celebration . . . Read it once for the plot...

A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 A New York Times Best Crime and Best Thriller Novel of 2024 A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2024 An NPR, New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 A Wall Street Journal, Parade...

Secret Smile is a gripping psychological thriller from the top-ten best-selling author Nicci French. You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over. You're dead wrong.... Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he's intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening - then even more terrifying than a girl's worst nightmare.

They say your memory can't be trusted. They say your story doesn't check out. They say you were never blindfolded...starved...or imprisoned in a filthy shed like an animal. But you know it happened. And you know it can happen again. This masterful novel of brilliantly drawn characters and harrowing suspense will shock you at every turn and force you to walk the fine line between madness and fear. Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.

Beneath the Skin is a gripping psychological thriller by the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French. Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives - and promises that he will bring those lives to a violent, horrible end.