Jean-Christophe Grangé — Polars Pourpres

[Fredo]

Throwing the Bones, son prochain roman, paraitra le 11 février 2008 aux USA. Le titre de travail du roman était Crocodile ... et ce sera l'occasion de retrouver Jack Caffery, le personnage principal des deux premiers romans de Mo, Birdman et l'Homme du Soir.

Le forum des rivières pourpres est donc un des rares site français à vous présenter en avant première le résumé en anglais de son prochain livre !

Bristol: a multicultural city teeming with life. And teeming with death too.
When, one brooding summer, the horrifically mutilated limbs of two teenage boys are discovered in the river at the Portishead docks, the city turns overnight into a place of fear: neighbour mistrusts neighbour, colleague looks with suspicion at colleague. What is the meaning of these killings? Why, like a crocodile, does the killer choose to lodge the dismembered remains into underwater ledges and submerged structures? And the deaths themselves: are they drug related? Or does the answer lie in the city's African community? With each passing day the police begin to ask themselves a terrible question: are they dealing with one of Africa's darkest rituals: muthi healing?

At the centre of the investigation is PC Phoebe Angstrom - a diver with the Police Underwater Search Unit. Bright and determined she is a far more capable diver than her male counterparts. Trained earlier in life than the others she is nicknamed Flea for her energy, nimbleness and ability to squeeze into underwater nooks the larger men can't. She proves invaluable in the hunt for the remaining parts of the 'Crocodile's' victims. But her performance once again raises the long unanswered question: why, at the age of 30, has she not risen further up the ranks? What is holding her back?
The answer lies somewhere in Flea's off-duty lifestyle. Unlike other police officers she is single, childless. Home is a remote cottage overlooking her beloved sea, but she is rarely solitary. Her blind, almost pathological drive for sexual conquest is seen by many as inexplicably self destructive. "Like you think the world's going to end tomorrow….." Men enter and exit her life with startling rapidity: weekly, even daily. Sometimes she doesn't even ask their names first.

Only one man comes close to breaking Flea's pattern. The Met's DSupt Jack Caffery, newly promoted and with experience of the so called 'Adam' muthi killing case in London, arrives as a consultant in Bristol. Jack, increasingly disillusioned by his relationship with Rebecca embarks on an affair with Flea. The affair lasts a month and leaves them both changed: Jack is shaken by the experience: deeply attracted to her, he is chilled by the barriers she has built around her core. What is she searching for? Or worse, what is she hiding? As the hunt for 'The Crocodile' escalates, Flea is pushed increasingly into a corner. But will she open up and speak her truth? And, ultimately, will she be forced to reveal the terrible secret she has kept silently for more than ten years?
Source : www.superpouvoir.com
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[Dodger]

Après les cochons, les crocodiles... Hmm, ça promet

Merci pour cette avant-première, Fredo !

[holden]

VIENS JUSTE DE FINIR le deuxieme opus de jack cafferty
vite vite la suite
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[A Manc in Belgium]

[holden]

Spoiler:

son frère et tracey lamb

[norbert]

Confirmation : Rituel paraîtra le 05 Juin aux Presses de la Cité!

[Fredo]

Yeah, merci Norbert !
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[Fredo]

Le livre est annoncé pour le 10 Mars aux USA (voir dans le post 1 pour la couv UK) :


Couv US

Book Description
DI Jack Caffery is back on the beat in Mo Hayder's terrifying new bestseller.

Back Cover copy
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. Newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol, DI Jack Caffery is attempting to leave behind his failed personal life in London. Still haunted by the disappearance of his brother, he is looking for a man recently released from a high- security prison, a man who sleeps rough and walks the country roads as he relives the memories of a terrifying crime. Caffery and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared. Their search for him, and for his abductor, leads them into the darkest recesses of Bristol’s underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ... RITUAL is the opening novel in Mo Hayder’s Walking Man series.


Aux vues de cette dernière phrase, Rituel sera le premier d'une série consacrée au Walking Man.


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[norbert]

[norbert]

Bristol, Angleterre.
Quand le sergent "Flea" Marley, plongeuse de la police, ramasse une main humaine dans la paroi d' un quai du port, elle est encore loin d' imaginer le cauchemar qui la guette. Car la récupération des cadavres en milieu aquatique est son métier, et même une raison de vivre depuis la perte tragique de ses parents, plongeurs émérites eux aussi et disparus mystérieusement à l' issue d' une expédition en Afrique du Sud.
Le problème, c' est que cette main a été tranchée. Net. Flea fait part de ses doutes au commissaire-adjoint Jack Caffery, chargé de l' enquête après sa récente mutation. Caffery a en effet fini par se rendre compte qu' il n' était plus retenu à Londres par l' obsession de sa vie : retrouver le corps de son jeune frère Ewan, enlevé à l' âge de 9 ans par son vieux voisin pédophile. Et il s' est laissé attirer dans l' ouest de l' Angleterre par la remise en liberté d' un très étrange assassin, qui s' est transformé en vagabond et sillonne désormais la campagne du Somerset.
Leurs recherches initiales ne leur ayant permis de dégager que les contours d' un crime rituel particulièrement barbare, Flea et Caffery se lancent à corps perdu dans l' enquête, au risque de réveiller leurs propres démons...

[Dodger]

J'adore la couv', elle est superbement inquiétante !
Hm, il faut vraiment que je lise très vite Birdman et l'Homme du soir...

[norbert]

Moi il me reste L' homme du soir à lire avant aussi!

[Fredo]

vivement vivement vivement !
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Frédéric Fontès, News & Chroniques sur www.4decouv.com et C'est Culturellement Dingue sur TikTok

[holden]

dispo 1 sur pm pour les afficionados
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[El Marco]

Fiche modifiée dans Polars Pourpres avec la couverture définitive et le résumé en français.