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I byen Promise Falls er det lige så let at få hævn som at tælle til 1, 2, 3 ...

Dagen begynder som en helt almindelig lørdag – et bad, en kop kaffe, morgenmad. Men pludselig bryder helvede løs i Promise Falls.

Folk falder døde om på gaden, hospitalerne og beredskabet bliver lagt ned af det høje antal ofre. Er det massemord gennem madforgiftning, en virus eller noget endnu mere dystert? Er der mon nogen, der står bag?

Alle forbrydelser har konsekvenser. Alle byer har hemmeligheder. En ung pige bliver dræbt af en spritbilist. Lokalsamfundet er rystet over tragedien og kræver retfærdighed. Det betyder ikke noget, at den anklagede selv kun er et barn. Da han får en mild dom, lyder der et ramaskrig. Under truslen om hævn hyrer drengen og hans desperate familie privatdetektiv Cal Weaver til at beskytte ham. Men der er øjne overalt, og gengældelsen kan komme fra alle sider … Der er noget ved hele sagen, der ikke stemmer, og Weaver spekulerer over, hvad det er, han overser.

College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal life. Until, driving along a deserted road late one night, he surprises a murderer disposing of a couple of bodies. That’s when Paul’s "normal" existence is turned upside down. After nearly losing his own life in that encounter, he finds himself battling PTSD, depression, and severe problems at work. His wife, Charlotte, desperate to cheer him up, brings home a vintage typewriter. But Paul swears it’s possessed and types by itself at night - and that it's somehow connected to the murderer....

Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it's one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn't want told that's about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she's really hiding when a local newspaperman threatens to do an exposé on her - not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon.

Glen Barber isn't the only person in the small town of Milford with things on his mind. The recession has been bad for his construction business, especially after a mysterious fire destroys one of his buildings. But everyone else in Milford seems to have problems too, as the financial pressures begin to pinch. Glen's troubles, however, are about to escalate to a whole new level.

The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job - even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was - and Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn't arrive home at her usual time, he thought she'd probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn't answer her phone he began to worry.

The morning it all started, newspaper reporter David Harwood had plenty to worry about. A single parent with no job, forced to return with his young son to the small town of Promise Falls to live with his parents, the future wasn't looking too rosy. So when his mother asked him to look in on his cousin, Marla, who was still not quite right after losing her baby, it was almost a relief to put the disaster his own life had become to one side. The relief wouldn't last long.

It starts with a trip to a local amusement park. David Harwood is hoping a carefree day at Five Mountains will help dispel his wife Jan's recent depression, black moods that have led to frightening thoughts of suicide. Instead, a day of fun with their four-year-old son Ethan turns into a nightmare. When Jan disappears from the park, David's worst fears seem to have come true. But when he goes to the police to report her missing, terrified that she's planning to take her own life, the facts start to indicate something very different.

The media have descended on Garrett Island, a small, isolated community that is the setting of a visionary experiment. All the residents’ cars were sent to the mainland and for the past month the islanders have been “driving” the Arrival, a revolutionary autonomous vehicle. With a simple voice command, an Arrival will take you wherever you want to go and, because the fleet is networked and aware of one another, car travel is now 100% safe. The future, it seems, has arrived.

Entre suspense effréné et humour décapant, un des tous premiers thrillers du créateur de frissons. Une série d'ores et déjà culte sur les drôles d'aventures de Zack Walker, le plus attachant des antihéros. Son épouse et ses ados respirent, Zack Walker a trouvé un job. Lui, l'angoissé chronique, l'obsédé de la sécurité, a renoncé à son rôle d'homme au foyer/écrivain de science-fiction pour entrer à la rédaction du journal local.

Aux États-Unis, de nos jours. Zack Walker a une obsession : la sécurité. Marié et père de deux enfants, cet auteur de science-fiction a préféré quitter un environnement urbain qu'il estime trop dangereux, pour une vie de banlieue bien paisible. Paisible ? A voir. Car Zack, en bon parano, continue de voir le danger partout : ses ados s'obstinent à laisser la porte d'entrée ouverte aux cambrioleurs potentiels et surtout, sa femme Sara laisse son sac à main à disposition de tous.

Zack Walker a le cœur sur la main, une générosité quasi pathologique qui lui vaut d'être régulièrement dans le pétrin. Et son karma ne va pas s'améliorer : Trixie, sa charmante voisine, comptable le jour, dominatrice la nuit, a besoin d'aide pour empêcher le reporter Martin Benson de dévoiler la nature illégale de sa "profession". Zack, plus chevaleresque que jamais, est prêt à tout pour rendre service à son amie ; quitte à rogner sur la déontologie pour aller menacer son confrère...

Newspaper writer, family man and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what he's about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father's lakeside fishing camp. As always, Zack fears the worst. And this time his paranoid worldview is dead on. While the locals attribute the death to a bear attack, Zack suspects something far more ominous - a predator whose weapons include arson, assault and enough wacko beliefs to fuel a dozen hate groups.

Parfois, mieux vaudrait ne pas savoir d'où on vient... Millionnaire de quarante-deux ans, Miles Cookson a tout ce dont il peut rêver. Tout sauf du temps : atteint d'une maladie incurable, il doit rapidement mettre son testament au clair. Et affronter son passé. Car vingt ans plus tôt, Miles a vendu son sperme pour financer ses études. Neuf enfants existent, quelque part, qu'il est déterminé à rencontrer avant de mourir. Première sur la liste, Chloé, vingt-deux ans, trop heureuse de faire la connaissance de ce géniteur.

One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder—it’s always the husband, isn’t it?—but the police could never build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom—he drank too much to numb the pain, was abandoned by all his friends save one, nearly lost his business, and became a pariah in the place he once called home.

Cuando los vecinos de al lado de la familia Cutter, los Langley, mueren asesinados en su propia casa una calurosa noche de agosto, el mundo de los Cutter cambia para siempre. Que hayan ocurrido muertes tan violentas tan cerca de ellos, en los suburbios de Promise Falls, es escandaloso, pero al menos los Cutter pueden consolarse pensando de que los rayos nunca caen dos veces en el mismo sitio. A menos, por supuesto, que los asesinos se hayan equivocado de casa.

Hay veces en que el peligro se oculta donde menos lo esperas... Una cálida tarde de sábado. Un parque de diversiones. David Harwood tiene esperanzas de que un día sin preocupaciones ayudará a disipar la reciente depresión de su esposa, Jan, que la ha llevado a contemplar el suicidio. Pero el día de diversión con el hijo de ambos, Ethan, se convierte en una pesadilla. Cuando Jan desparece del parque, los peores miedos de David parecen haberse vuelto reales. Acude a la policía para denunciar su desaparición, pero los hechos comienzan a indicar algo muy diferente.

Your dad’s not a good person. Your dad killed people, son. These are some of the last words Jack Givins’ father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could. Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He’s a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book. So when the U.S. Marshals approach him with a lucrative opportunity, he’s in no position to turn them down.

Des bébés qui disparaissent, des écureuils pendus, un fétichiste du chiffre vingt-trois : méfiez-vous de Promise Falls ; derrière son apparente tranquillité, cette petite bourgade américaine cache la plus longue liste de faits divers jamais recensés... Dans un univers digne des premiers épisodes de "Twin Peaks", Barclay tisse une trilogie déroutante et pleine d'humour.

Aider une jeune autostoppeuse : où est le mal ? Surtout dans une petite ville, où tout le monde se connaît, se fait confiance. Et pourtant... Cal Weaver, ex-flic au grand cœur, pourrait vite découvrir qu'entre bon Samaritain et ennemi public numéro un, la ligne est souvent très mince. Avec ce puzzle meurtrier, brillant et angoissant à souhait, le créateur de frissons signe un millésime 2016 d'exception ! État de New York, près de la frontière canadienne, de nos jours.