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Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and out-manoeuvre anyone...For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets ? and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro.

A Boston en 1926, Joe, le plus jeune fils du capitaine Coughlin, veut entrer dans le milieu de la pègre. Il commet l'erreur de séduire la maîtresse du parrain local et se retrouve en prison. Il y fai

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe''s journey to becoming one of the nation''s most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America...A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.

Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the story "Running out of Dog" which was featured in "The Best American Mystery Stories 2005" and "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century". It also includes the full text of the acclaimed play "Coronado". Infused with the compelling narrative drive, piercing insight, and psychological drama that have made his novels bestsellers, "Coronado" is sure to satisfy this acclaimed writer's devoted following while they eagerly await his next novel.

Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. The case is rife with oddities: Amanda's strangely indifferent mother and her dangerous, drug-addled friends; her loving aunt and uncle; and two cops who have found so many abused or dead children they may already be over the edge.As the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone - banished so completely that she seems never to have existed. And when a second child disappears, Kenzie and Gennaro face a local media more interested in sensationalizing the abductions than helping to solve them, a police force seething with lethal secrets, and a faceless power determined to obstruct their efforts. Caught in a deadly tangle of lies and betrayal, they must confront the horror of what the world can inflict on its children in order to unravel a riddle that's anything but child's play.

Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once one of America''s most feared and prominent gangsters, he now moves effortlessly between the social elite, politicians, police and the mob. He has everything he could possibly want; money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity.But in a town that runs on corruption, vengeance and greed, success can''t protect Joe from the dark truth of his past -- and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full . . .Chilling, heart-breaking and gripping, this is the most complex and powerful novel to date from Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.

Joe Coughlin is untouchable. Once one of America''s most feared and prominent gangsters, he now moves effortlessly between the social elite, politicians, police and the mob. He has everything he could possibly want; money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity.But in a town that runs on corruption, vengeance and greed, success can''t protect Joe from the dark truth of his past -- and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full . . .Chilling, heart-breaking and gripping, this is the most complex and powerful novel to date from Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.

Summer, 1954. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels.

Septembre 1918, Babe Ruth, gloire montante du base-ball, est à bord d'un train qui l'emmène à Boston. Le train s'immobilise dans l'Ohio, en panne. Le champion part se promener et tombe sur un groupe de Noirs s'adonnant à son sport favori. Babe, rejoint par ses coéquipiers, lance un défi aux amateurs. Tout va bien, jusqu'au moment où les Noirs commencent à gagner. Un joueur particulièrement doué, Luther Laurence, parvient même à tenir Babe en échec. C'est alors que les Blancs trichent. Luther et ses amis quittent le terrain. Ce prologue pose d'emblée les thèmes de l'inégalité des races, de l'abus de pouvoir, de la conscience de la morale qui sous-tendent l'ossature d'un récit épique qui parle du retour de guerre des soldats remis sur le marché du travail, des ravages de la grippe espagnole, des actions anarchistes, de la chasse aux bolcheviques, de la Prohibition, de la corruption du base-ball, du virage à droite de l'Amérique, de l'écrasement des mouvements ouvriers... Traduit de l'américain. Du même auteur : Mystic River ; Gone baby gone.

Set at the end of the Great War, "The Given Day" offers an unflinching, utterly spectacular family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpr

Once every couple of years, a Big Literary American novel comes along and blows everyone away. This is it.

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Boston, 1926. En pleine Prohibition, l'alcool coule à flots dans les speakeasies et Joe, le plus jeune fils du commissaire adjoint Thomas Coughlin, est bien décidé à se faire une place au sein de la

Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter.

Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaros relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, this book brings them together again to close down a predator.

En cet été de 1974, dans la banlieue irlandaise de South Boston, Mary Pat Fennessy mène une existence routinière. Un soir, Jules, sa fille de dix-sept ans, ne rentre pas à la maison, et sa trace disp