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A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt. Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters to vampires....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke. His vast knowledge and magical skills are unfortunately matched by his talent for making powerful enemies and alienating friends. With little more than his integrity left, he accepts an offer of work from Lt. Karin Murphy of Chicago's Special Investigations Unit. He wants to redeem himself in Murphy's eyes and make enough money to quiet his rumbling stomach.

Hallucination ou fantasme ? C'est la question que se pose Agatha Raisin lorsque, au détour d'une route, surgit devant elle un homme dans le plus simple appareil. Paniqué, il dit avoir aperçu un cadavre... Pourtant, une fois sur place, nulle trace du corps. Si la police crie au canular, Agatha est persuadée que le nudiste dit vrai.

Rumba Stoner, avocate, est prise au piège dans son propre corps et par ses pensées. Elle oscille entre 1984, un présent dans lequel elle mène une bataille contre elle-même, et 1976, un passé qui lui revient. Comme si elle y était. Pour sortir de sa prison mentale, elle doit renouer avec ses souvenirs d'adolescence et reprendre le fil de sa toute première enquête. Un matin, à Chambéry, une jeune femme est retrouvée assassinée. Discrète et déterminée, la jeune Rumba suit son oncle à la trace, le commissaire Martinez, pour démasquer le coupable.

There's a price to pay for a life with a greater purpose. The healing of time is a damn liar when you're living a life as a dead man with no true home, and the silence couldn't be more deafening. Counting the days, good and bad, I exist as the world keeps spinning. I can never look back. All I can do is hope I took enough out of that life to carry me forward on those dead legs. Everything that was meant to give the tragedy of my life meaning ended up holding me prisoner in this wreckage of my past. Until now.

Après avoir échappé de justesse à une tentative d’assassinat, le journaliste John "Fox" Cattuso, du New Herald Post de Los Angeles, est envoyé par son rédacteur en chef en Italie pour faire un documentaire sur le Grand Jubilé du millénaire. Fox, accompagné de Nancy Shepard, jeune et belle stagiaire, s’intéresse particulièrement à l’étrange maladie de l’ingénieur Sorsi, responsable du système de surveillance du Vatican, et lui fait une visite à la clinique. Or, dès le lendemain, il apprend sa mort soi-disant causée par une embolie. Fox est loin d’être convaincu qu’on lui a dit la vérité.

The ultimate battle which will decide the fate of Heaven and Earth has finally come. Everett and Courtney Carroll have fared better than most through the past seven years of the Great Tribulation, but the eve of Armageddon refuses to let them live out the last hours of this present age without conflict, trouble, and persistent peril.

Donovan and I met at a coffee shop to do the suitcase exchange. Turned out, it wasn’t just his voice that was sexy. The man holding my luggage was absolutely gorgeous, and we had an immediate spark. He got me to admit that I’d snooped in his bag and then convinced me to make it up to him by letting him buy me coffee. Coffee led to dinner, dinner led to dessert, and dessert led to spending an entire weekend together. So what did I do to repay him for his kindness? I waited until he was in the shower, then ghosted him.