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Londres, 1935. Geats travaille pour la police des Moeurs. Misanthrope et hargneux, il dirige la racaille de Soho selon un code moral élastique. Ses ruelles étroites sont peuplées de jazzmen, de bookmakers, de mafieux et de michetons. Aussi, lorsque le corps d'une prostitué est retrouvé au-dessus d'un club, les détectives de la criminelle se contentent de classer l'affaire comme un suicide. Geats, quant à lui, flaire déjà la piste d'un tueur pervers et insaisissable que l'on surnommera le Brigadier.
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WHITE CITY ; 'THE BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024' THE TIMES
Dominic Nolan
- Headline
- 7 Novembre 2024
- 9781035416752
''Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer'' CHRIS WHITAKER
''Crime writing of the highest quality'' DAILY MAIL
It''s 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.
An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof.
For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery.
Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house.
Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale.
She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband''s disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy ''Mother'' Nunn, a sociopathic, evangelising outlaw and top lieutenant in Billy Hill''s underworld.
Drawn together through the years in the city''s invisible web of crime and poverty, the fates of the broken families and violent men collide in 1958, as the West Indian community of Notting Hill''s slums come under attack from thugs and Teddy Boys. For Addie, Claire, Dave and Mother, old scores will be settled and new dreams chased in the crucible of London''s violent summer.
Praise for Dominic Nolan:
''Brings the obsessional dread of James Ellroy to 1940s London'' IAN RANKIN
''Extraordinary...a career-defining performance'' THE SUNDAY TIMES, CRIME BOOKS OF THE YEAR
He writes like a dream - a dark, fevered, frenzied dream'' HARRIET TYCE
''Deserves to be compared with the unforgettable James Ellroy'' DAILY MAIL
''Savage, beautiful, mesmeric'' CHRIS WHITAKER
''A stirringly ambitious novel.... Extraordinary'' A. J. FINN -
The only thing Detective Abigail Boone remembers...is the worst thing that ever happened to her. 'A great story told with real poise ' Simon Kernick, Sunday Times bestseller From a blistering new voice in crime fiction, PAST LIFE is a gripping and razor-sharp debut perfect for fans of Susie Steiner's MISSING, PRESUMED , Ian Rankin and Tim Weaver. 'It's gripping, addictive, a thrill of a ride. This is crime as it should be written. One of the best, original introductions of a protagonist I've read.' Jo Spain 'I really loved this...a twisting, heart-wrenching story with wonderfully vivid characters' Claire McGowan *** Waking up beside the dead girl, she couldn't remember anything. Who she was. Who had taken her. How to escape. Detective Abigail Boone has been missing for four days when she is finally found, confused and broken. Suffering retrograde amnesia, she is a stranger to her despairing husband and bewildered son. Hopelessly lost in her own life, with no leads on her abduction, Boone's only instinct is to revisit the case she was investigating when she vanished: the baffling disappearance of a young woman, Sarah Still. Defying her family and the police, Boone obsessively follows a deadly trail to the darkest edges of human cruelty. But even if she finds Sarah, will Boone ever be the same again? 'An amazing debut novel ' Anne Bonny Book Reviews 'I highly recommend to anyone but especially to those who like their crime fiction to have genuine depth...loved it.' LizLovesBooks
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HOW CAN YOU SOLVE A CRIME IF YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE? Epic, thrilling and beautifully written, AFTER DARK is a twisting masterpiece of crime fiction that fans of Ian Rankin, Tim Weaver, Belinda Bauer and Tana French will love. A girl held captive her entire life After a shocking discovery, the police must unravel a mystery that horrifies the nation. A detective condemned as a criminal Violently abducted while searching for a missing woman, D.S. Abigail Boone suffered retrograde amnesia - remembering nothing of her previous life. Defying the law to hunt those responsible, she now languishes behind bars. A monster hiding in the shadows In desperation, police turn to Boone - who fears a connection to the disappearance of a child three decades earlier...and a mysterious underworld figure whose name is spoken only in whispers. Freed from prison, what will Boone sacrifice - and who must she become - to uncover the terrifying truth? Praise for Dominic Nolan's debut PAST LIFE: 'A great story told with real poise ' Simon Kernick, Sunday Times bestseller 'A book that grabs you and refuses to let go till the very end' Alex Gray 'Crime as it should be written...gripping, addictive, a thrill of a ride.' Jo Spain, international bestseller 'A beautifully written debut... this is a moving story, poignantly told . ' Daily Mail 'This powerhouse novel is not for the fragile-hearted...one hell of a debut' Heat 'A smart, distinctive debut' Sunday Mirror
