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En orbite autour de la Terre, Ciudad de Cielo est la première marche permettant à l'humanité d'atteindre les étoiles. Décrite comme un lieu utopique où le crime n'existe pas, la station spatiale est néanmoins contrôlée par des gangs qui se livrent une guerre sans merci : prostitution, contrebande et racket sont omniprésents. Jusqu'ici, les autorités ont toujours fermé les yeux. Mais les choses vont changer : un cadavre vient d'être découvert, flottant en mille morceaux dans la microgravité de cette ville dans le ciel.
L'enquête sur ce meurtre est confiée à Nikki ' Fix ' Freeman. Corrompue jusqu'à la moelle, c'est peu dire qu'elle n'est pas ravie d'être chaperonnée par Alice Blake, une jeune envoyée du gouvernement terrien fraîchement arrivée sur la station et particulièrement stricte dès qu'il s'agit du règlement.
Alors que les morts s'accumulent, les masques vont finir par tomber, et les vraies raisons de ce déchaînement de violence se révéler au grand jour.
Sous les dehors d'une enquête policière rondement menée, Chris Brookmyre explore dans ce face-à-face magistral entre deux femmes, et deux mondes, que tout oppose, les aspects les plus sombres de notre monde contemporain. Saluons l'entrée remarquée, et réussie, d'un grand nom du polar écossais dans la science-fiction.
"Voilà un roman qui aura bien du mal à se faire une place dans les cases parfois rigides que, éditeurs comme lecteurs, dressent
pour classer leurs ouvrages. On parle d'un polar qui prend place sur une station spatiale internationale. Une lecture originale
et addictive...ce thriller d'anticipation se
révèle d'excellente facture" Culturevsnews -
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE FOR CRIME WRITING 2018
"This is as close to a city without crime as mankind has ever seen."
Ciudad de Cielo is the 'city in the sky', a space station where hundreds of scientists and engineers work in earth's orbit, building the colony ship that will one day take humanity to the stars.
When a mutilated body is found on the CdC, the eyes of the world are watching. Top-of the-class investigator, Alice Blake, is sent from Earth to team up with CdC's Freeman - a jaded cop with more reason than most to distrust such planetside interference.
As the death toll climbs and factions aboard the station become more and more fractious, Freeman and Blake will discover clues to a conspiracy that threatens not only their own lives, but the future of humanity itself.
'Excellent hardboiled noir . . . absolutely gripping' SciFiNow
'An ingenious crime story' Scotsman
As smart as it is gripping, this is a terrifically engaging story from start to nerve-shredding finish Big Issue
'Places in the Darkness is another corker of a murder mystery, [Brookmyre's] new setting - with which he's clearly having a whale of a time - giving him the opportunity to wow us with an even twistier twist than usual' Guardian -
'Gloriously dark, deliciously twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH
ONE FAMILY, TWO HOLIDAYS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRET
To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs there lurks far darker emotions.
Sixteen years earlier, little Niamh Temple died while they were on holiday in Portugal. Now, as Amanda joins the family for a reunion at their seaside villa, she begins to suspect one of them might be hiding something terrible...
And suspicion is a dangerous thing.
From Chris Brookmyre, winner of the Theakstons and McIllvanney awards for Black Widow, comes a standalone psychological thriller full of twists, lies and betrayal.
PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE
'Guaranteed to keep you guessing'
Ian Rankin
'Extremely sophisticated crime'
Sunday Times
'Exceptionally good'
Guardian
'In the pantheon of great crime writers'
Elly Griffiths
'Scales new heights of invention'
Times Literary Supplement
'Brookmyre writes beautifully . . . I was hooked'
Literary Review -
The sixth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.
Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose.
Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes.
Jack Parlabane has lost everything: his journalism career, his marriage, his self-respect. A call for help from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike.
Pursued by those who would punish him for past crimes, Parlabane enters the world of Heike's band, Savage Earth Heart, a group at breaking point. Each of its members seems to be hiding something, not least its newest recruit Monica Halcrow, whose possible relationship with Heike has become a public obsession.
Monica's own story, however, reveals a far darker truth. Fixated on Heike from day one, she has been engulfed by paranoia, jealousy and fear, as she discovers the hidden price of fame.
From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it's too late, all while the walls are closing in on him... -
The third book in the Jasmine Sharp series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.
One crime brought them together . . .
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp should have wanted him dead.
Yet somehow, Jasmine bonded with Glen Fallan, the man who killed her father before she was born. Now he has been arrested for the murder of a local gangster, and Jasmine must finally enter his violent domain to seek answers.
. . . a second will break them apart
Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod is in fear for her life.
When she discovers a symbol daubed on the head of Fallan's alleged victim, it unearths secrets that will threaten everything Catherine holds dear.
One murder. Two women. A lifetime of lies revealed. -
Snowy London, a few days before Christmas, and a civil servant realises she has a chance for revenge.
Kendra has spent her whole life struggling against the Etonian powers-that-be, so when she realises her boss is up to no good, she turns whistleblower, calling a journalist who is looking for a way to fight back himself.
Jack Parlabane is a hack who will go to desperate lengths for a good story, and these days desperate is the word.
Reduced to peddling PR puff pieces, Parlabane is delighted when Kendra's information threatens to blow up a national corruption case at the highest levels. But as he follows the threads and others get wind of his investigation, Parlabane realises this story might prove dangerous to both of them.
This is one Christmas present Parlabane might regret opening.
Suspense, conspiracy and Jack Parlabane - a journalist who doesn't know what's good for him - lie within this superb short story prequel to the forthcoming novel Dead Girl Walking. -
'A celtic Gone Girl... guaranteed to keep you guessing' --- IAN RANKIN
*****WINNER Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year*****
*****WINNER Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Novel of the Year*****
Did she do it? Did he deserve it?
Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing.
Then she meets Peter. He's kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past: the second chance she's been waiting for.
Within six months, they are married. Within six more, Peter is dead in a road accident, a nightmare end to their fairytale romance.
But Peter's sister Lucy doesn't believe in fairytales, and tasks maverick reporter Jack Parlabane with discovering the dark truth behind the woman the media is calling Black Widow...
'Black Widow is a stand-out thriller'
Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer -
PREORDER Chris Brookmyre's new novel The Cracked Mirror now, the most inventive and unique crime novel of the year.
'Chris Brookmyre is a genius, every new book of his is a cause for celebration' --- RICHARD OSMAN
'Keeps you guessing until the very end - after an avalanche of revelations and twists' --- THE TIMES, BOOK OF THE MONTH
One hen weekend, seven secrets... but only one worth killing for
Jen's hen party is going to be out of control...
She's rented a luxury getaway on its own private island. The helicopter won't be back for seventy-two hours. They are alone. They think.
As well as Jen, there's the pop diva and the estranged ex-bandmate, the tennis pro and the fashion guru, the embittered ex-sister-in-law and the mouthy future sister-in-law.
It's a combustible cocktail, one that takes little time to ignite, and in the midst of the drunken chaos, one of them disappears. Then a message tells them that unless someone confesses her terrible secret to the others, their missing friend will be killed.
Problem is, everybody has a secret. And nobody wants to tell.
PRAISE FOR CHRIS BROOKMYRE
'Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - there's nothing he can't do'
Mick Herron
'I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me guessing'
Marian Keyes
'A twisty spiralling rabbit hole of a book that draws you deeper with every chapter. Brilliantly original, compulsively readable, right to the final page'
Ruth Ware
'Dark, heartfelt, stylish and thrilling, the kind of wonderfully original tale I just adore. Chris Brookmyre is a storytelling mastermind'
Chris Whitaker
'This is a special novel. A brilliant, original, up-to-the-minute tale with all of the dark, edgy, humorous brilliance we've come to expect from one of the finest crime fiction writers in the world'
Abir Mukherjee