Alex Prevost--kidnapped, savagely beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny wooden cage--is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her first? Apart from a shaky eyewitness report of the abduction, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, and no family or friends anxious to find a missing loved one. The diminutive and brilliant detective knows from bitter experience the urgency of finding the missing woman as quickly as possible--but first he must understand more about her. As he uncovers the details of the young woman's singular history, Camille is forced to acknowledge that the person he seeks is no ordinary victim. She is beautiful, yes, but also extremely tough and resourceful. Before long, saving Alex's life will be the least of Commandant Verhoeven's considerable challenges. A 2013 Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2014 RUSA Reading List Horror Award.

The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. A curated collection of the very best adventures of Arsène Lupin, France's most famous gentleman thief. The poor and the innocent have nothing to fear from Lupin; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to spoil his fun, however, must beware. They are the target of Lupin's mischief. With plans that frequently evolve into elaborate plots, Lupin is a gentleman burglar turned detective, and the most entertaining criminal genius in literature. These stories—the best of the Lupin series, including "The Queen's Necklace" and "Arsène Lupin in Prison"—are outrageous and witty, for the full enjoyment of those who love masters of disguise, extraordinary heists, and the panache found with Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Ocean's Eleven and Lupin. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. For French edition do an author search. [Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur]

Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. She is a French historian, archaeologist and a prolific crime writer. Her policiers (police procedurals) have won three awards from the Crime Writers Association and her knowledge of medieval history features prominently in her crime fiction. A good book for intermediate students of French.

Anna Heymes, the wife of a top-ranking Parisian official, suffers from amnesia and terrifying hallucinations. In an effort to understand her malady, a psychiatrist performs a series of tests, which reveal that she has undergone drastic cosmetic surgery, totally transforming her appearance. When, where, and why, Anna cannot remember. In the Turkish district of Paris, two policemen investigate the brutal murders of three women from the tenth arrondissement's underground workshops. At the heart of their investigation is a powerful and ruthless group of right-wing Turkish mafia members, the "Grey Wolves," who are involved in every conceivable manner of illegal trafficking. The link between Anna and the three murders becomes increasingly clear as her past is revealed and each of these characters—prey and predator, manipulated and manipulator—race toward an astonishing and horrible collision in the murky streets of a clandestine Paris and in the shadowy confines of Istanbul. A riveting blend of terror and mystery from the author of Blood-Red Rivers, "the best thriller since The Silence of the Lambs" (Le Figaro), The Empire of the Wolves is a gripping, hair-raising page-turner from "France's own Stephen King" (VSD).

Maurice Leblanc was born in 1864. He is the creator of the character Arsène Lupin (many call him the French counterpart of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. He was influenced by such greats as Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. He lived in Étretat, a commune in Normandy that still recognizes the legacy of this famous author. Gentleman Burglar is the first collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc telling the adventures of Arsène Lupin. It features the first nine stories depicting the character. Inspiration for numerous interpretations and adaptations in film, television, comic books, and games. For French edition do an author search. [Aventures extraordinaires d'Arsène Lupin]

French edition of The Empire of the Wolves.

Jablonka tells the story of Laëtitia Perrais, who was kidnapped, stabbed, strangled and dismembered by Tony Meilhon. The book traces Laëtitia’s life and analyzes the media’s role in the case as well as the way violence against women is perpetuated in contemporary society. In 2016, the book won the Prix Médicis and the Prix littéraire du Monde.

The Phantom of the Opera is a timeless piece of gothic horror that invites the reader into the dark world of obsession beneath the Palais Garnier opera house and reveals the secrets of the masked man who lives there. Gaston Leroux was a French journalist and detective fiction writer. He was born in 1868. His job as a court reporter and theater critic for "L'Écho de Paris" and later as international correspondent for "Le Matin" gave him fodder for some of his literature. He was present at the 1905 Russian Revolution.This French edition of Le fantôme includes original illustrations by Jacques Carelman.

Joël Dicker is a Swiss novelist who specializes in thrillers. He has won many awards including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française and Prix des écrivains Genevois. He has been compared to Nabokov and Philip Milton Roth and his work has been called a Swiss answer to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". His work at one time trumped Dan Brown's "Inferno" on the best seller list. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair was made into a television mini-series. He was also a contributer to "America: An Anthology of France and the United States "L'Amérique comme vous ne l'avez jamais lue". His piece is called "The Yellowstone Chronicles". This novel is about the Goldman families. There were two Goldman families. The Goldmans of Baltimore and the Goldmans of Montclair. The Goldmans-of-Montclair, from whom Marcus Goldman, author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, is a middle-class family living in a small house in Montclair, New Jersey. The Goldmans of Baltimore are a prosperous, happy-go-lucky family, living in a luxurious home in a wealthy suburb of Baltimore, to whom Marcus had boundless admiration. Eight years after the Drama, it is the story of his family that Marcus Goldman decides to tell this time, when in February 2012, he leaves the New York winter for the tropical heat of Boca Raton, in Florida, where he comes to tackle to his next novel. Through the memories of his youth, Marcus looks back on the life and destiny of the Goldmans of Baltimore and the fascination he once felt for this upscale American family, between vacations in Miami, the vacation home in the Hamptons. and pranks in private schools. But the years pass and the veneer of the Baltimores crumbles as the Drama looms. Until the day everything changes. And this question that has haunted Marcus ever since: what really happened to the Goldmans of Baltimore?

Gaston Leroux was a French journalist and detective fiction writer. He was born in 1868. His job as a court reporter and theater critic for "L'Écho de Paris" and later as international correspondent for "Le Matin" gave him fodder for some of his literature. He was present at the 1905 Russian Revolution. This 1907 novel, The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most famous "locked-room mysteries". Preface by Jean Cocteau ; illustrations by Jean Rouzaud.

Georges Simenon is a Belgian author who wrote over 500 novels. His most famous character was Jules Maigret, a fictional detective. His time in France was marked with considerable controversy during the war years, some calling him a collaborator, others a mere opportunist. He was at the same time suspected of being Jewish by the Gestapo. Nonetheless, he continued to produce a large volume of work during these years. Simenon spent time in Canada and the US though ultimately returned to Europe. He died in Lausanne, Switzerland. In this novel, Maigret, persuaded to sail to New York by a fearful young law student, finds himself drawn into the city's underworld, and a wealthy businessman's closely guarded past. Maigret's first impressions of the USA color this sparkling new translation, book twenty-seven of the new Penguin Maigret series. What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his life, he had met people with cold eyes, those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human contact. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' The Independent.

Georges Simenon is a Belgian author who wrote over 500 novels. His most famous character was Jules Maigret, a fictional detective. His time in France was marked with considerable controversy during the war years, some calling him a collaborator, others a mere opportunist. He was at the same time suspected of being Jewish by the Gestapo. Nonetheless, he continued to produce a large volume of work during these years. Simenon spent time in Canada and the US though ultimately returned to Europe. He died in Lausanne, Switzerland. In this novel, Maigret, persuaded to sail to New York by a fearful young law student, finds himself drawn into the city's underworld, and a wealthy businessman's closely guarded past. Maigret's first impressions of the USA color this sparkling new translation, book twenty-seven of the new Penguin Maigret series. What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his life, he had met people with cold eyes, those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human contact. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' The Independent.

In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring it back to Paris to publish it. The book is a sensation, prompting fevered interest in the identity of its author - apparently one Henri Pick, a now-deceased pizza chef from Crozon. Sceptics cry that the whole thing is a hoax: how could this man have written such a masterpiece? An obstinate journalist, Jean-Michel Rouche, heads to Brittany to investigate. The delightful first title in a new series - a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books. [Mystère Henri Pick]

This reissue of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera is the first title in The Haunted Library, a new horror classics series presented by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks. Gaston Leroux was a French journalist and detective fiction writer. He was born in 1868. His job as a court reporter and theater critic for "L'Écho de Paris" and later as international correspondent for "Le Matin" gave him fodder for some of his literature. He was present at the 1905 Russian Revolution. The award-winning musical based on Leroux's work is world-famous, but many people are unaware that the show was inspired by a novel, originally published in a serialized form by French journalist and detective writer Gaston Leroux. The Phantom of the Opera is a timeless piece of gothic horror that invites the reader into the dark world of obsession beneath the Palais Garnier opera house and reveals the secrets of the masked man who lives there. An introduction by Bram Stoker and in-depth annotations will bring this epic love story to life for today's readers.

Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. She is a French historian, archaeologist and a prolific crime writer. Her policiers (police procedurals) have won three awards from the Crime Writers Association and her knowledge of medieval history features prominently in her crime fiction. A good book for intermediate students of French. This Poison Will Remain, in French, Quand sort la recluse" is loosely translated as "when the recluse goes forth". In this novel, Commissaire Adamsberg investigates the death of three men linked by their childhood at an orphanage in Nimes, all killed by the venom of the recluse spider. A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly into the region of Nîmes, where three old men have died of spider bites. The recluse has a sneaky attack, but is that enough to explain the deaths of these men, all killed by the same venom? At the National Museum of Natural History, Adamsberg meets a pensioner who tells him that two of the three octogenarians have known each other since childhood, when they lived in a local orphanage called The Mercy. There, they had belonged to a small group of violent young boys known as the "band of recluses". Adamsberg faces two obstacles: the third man killed by the same venom was not part of the "band of recluses", and the amount of spider venom necessary to kill doesn't add up. Yet after the Nîmes deaths, more members of the old band succumb to recluse bites, leading the commissaire to uncover the tragedy hidden behind the walls of the orphanage. [Quand sort la recluse]

Joël Dicker is a Swiss novelist who specializes in thrillers. He has won many awards including the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française and Prix des écrivains Genevois. He has been compared to Nabokov and Philip Milton Roth and his work has been called a Swiss answer to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". His work at one time trumped Dan Brown's "Inferno" on the best seller list. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair was made into a television mini-series. He was also a contributer to "America: An Anthology of France and the United States "L'Amérique comme vous ne l'avez jamais lue". His piece is called "The Yellowstone Chronicles". A twisty, fast-paced, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book within a book, for fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and Donna Tartt Marcus Goldman is riding high. The twenty-eight-year-old writer is the new darling of American letters, whose debut novel has sold two million copies. But when it comes time to produce a new book, he is sidelined by a crippling case of writer's block. He travels to Somerset, New Hampshire, to see his mentor, Harry Quebert, one of the country's most respected writers, hoping to jar his creative juices as his publisher's deadline looms. But Marcus's plans are upended when Harry is sensationally implicated in a cold-case murder: Fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan went missing in 1975, and Harry admits to having had an affair with her. Following a trail of clues through the backwoods and isolated beaches of New Hampshire, Marcus must answer two questions, which are mysteriously connected: Who killed Nola Kellergan? And how do you write a book to save someone's life? Named a Best Book of the Summer by CBS This Morning, Us Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Parade, Houston Chronicle, New York Post, Tampa Bay Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The Daily Beast Now a 10-part TV series on EPIX, starring Patrick Dempsey, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr., and Virginia Madsen. [Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert]