Paris, un siècle après l’apocalypse. La capitale est plongée dans les pluies de printemps et Chet, dans une affaire qui le dépasse. Des sosies apparaissent pour lui faire porter le chapeau de crimes dont il est innocent. Du lagon du Trocadéro au repaire lacustre des pirates de la Villette, Chet arpente les bords de la Seine en crue à la recherche de ces mystérieux doubles, autant que de lui-même. L’autrice multiprimée Estelle Faye (Les Seigneurs de Bohen, La Voie des oracles) retrouve son héros jazzy Chet pour une nouvelle aventure indépendante dans l’univers poétique et fantastique d’Un Éclat de givre.

Aurélien n’a jamais oublié Maxence. Leur amitié évidente, fusionnelle. L’été magique de ses onze ans. Et puis son départ brutal, sans même qu’il puisse lui dire au revoir. Depuis, sept ans ont passé. Au village, Aurélien s’occupe seul du café de ses parents ; il a mis tous ses rêves de côté. Jusqu’à ce matin de juillet où il découvre, assis sur la terrasse, un garçon aux traits familiers. Maxence n’a jamais oublié Aurélien. Un coup de foudre immense. Un raz de marée dans sa vie bien rangée. Cet été-là, Maxence a compris qu’il préférait les garçons et que ses parents ne l’accepteraient jamais. Depuis, il tait ses sentiments, ses peurs, ses espoirs, tout ce qu’il subit au lycée... Jusqu’à cette nuit-là et le coup de fil in extremis à son père qui lui offre la possibilité d’une seconde chance, dans le Sud... où vit encore Aurélien. Mais tant d’années après, la réalité sera-t-elle à la hauteur de leurs souvenirs ?

Aurélien n’a jamais oublié Maxence. Leur amitié évidente, fusionnelle. L’été magique de ses onze ans. Et puis son départ brutal, sans même qu’il puisse lui dire au revoir. Depuis, sept ans ont passé. Au village, Aurélien s’occupe seul du café de ses parents ; il a mis tous ses rêves de côté. Jusqu’à ce matin de juillet où il découvre, assis sur la terrasse, un garçon aux traits familiers. Maxence n’a jamais oublié Aurélien. Un coup de foudre immense. Un raz de marée dans sa vie bien rangée. Cet été-là, Maxence a compris qu’il préférait les garçons et que ses parents ne l’accepteraient jamais. Depuis, il tait ses sentiments, ses peurs, ses espoirs, tout ce qu’il subit au lycée... Jusqu’à cette nuit-là et le coup de fil in extremis à son père qui lui offre la possibilité d’une seconde chance, dans le Sud... où vit encore Aurélien. Mais tant d’années après, la réalité sera-t-elle à la hauteur de leurs souvenirs ?

Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy gothic romance worthy of the heavens in Song of the Six Realms. Xue, a talented young musician, has no past and probably no future. Orphaned at a young age, her kindly poet uncle took her in and arranged for an apprenticeship at one of the most esteemed entertainment houses in the kingdom. She doesn’t remember much from before entering the House of Flowing Water, and when her uncle is suddenly killed in a bandit attack, she is devastated to lose her last connection to a life outside of her indenture contract. With no family and no patron, Xue is facing the possibility of a lifetime of servitude playing the qin for nobles that praise her talent with one breath and sneer at her lowly social status with the next. Then one night she is unexpectedly called to the garden to put on a private performance for the enigmatic Duke Meng. The young man is strangely kind and awkward for nobility, and surprises Xue further with an irresistible offer: serve as a musician in residence at his manor for one year, and he’ll set her free of her indenture. But the Duke’s motives become increasingly more suspect when he and Xue barely survive an attack by a nightmarish monster, and when he whisks her away to his estate, she discovers he’s not just some country noble: He’s the Duke of Dreams, one of the divine rulers of the Celestial Realm. There she learns the Six Realms are on the brink of disaster, and incursions by demonic beasts are growing more frequent. The Duke needs Xue’s help to unlock memories from her past that could hold the answers to how to stop the impending war… but first Xue will need to survive being the target of every monster and deity in the Six Realms.

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Drama unfolds case by case as the heroes of The Poisoner's Handbook—chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler—investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald, Barnum and Bailey's Famous Blue Man, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies, and many others. Each case presents a deadly new puzzle and Norris and Gettler work with a creativity that rivals that of the most imaginative murderer, creating revolutionary experiments to tease out even the wiliest compounds from human tissue. Yet in the tricky game of toxins, even science can't always be trusted, as proven when one of Gettler's experiments erroneously sets free a suburban housewife later nicknamed "America's Lucretia Borgia" to continue her nefarious work. From the vantage of Norris and Gettler's laboratory in the infamous Bellevue Hospital it becomes clear that killers aren't the only toxic threat to New Yorkers. Modern life has created a kind of poison playground, and danger lurks around every corner. Automobiles choke the city streets with carbon monoxide; potent compounds, such as morphine, can be found on store shelves in products ranging from pesticides to cosmetics. Prohibition incites a chemist's war between bootleggers and government chemists while in Gotham's crowded speakeasies each round of cocktails becomes a game of Russian roulette. Norris and Gettler triumph over seemingly unbeatable odds to become the pioneers of forensic chemistry and the gatekeepers of justice during a remarkably deadly time. A beguiling concoction that is equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten New York.

Alistair est un génie. Derrière son écran, il a appris les mathématiques, la planétologie, la science des matériaux et même à décrypter les émotions des gens. Mais à vingt et un ans, Alistair n'est jamais sorti de l'appartement où il vit seul avec sa mère. Son rêve : aller sur la Lune. Il est prêt. Et sa mère l'a promis : le jour où elle montera au ciel, il pourra faire ce qu'il voudra. En voyant ce jeune type à l'air un peu paumé sortir de l'immeuble, Yaro, dix-huit ans, sans-papiers, pense avoir flairé la bonne affaire. Quand il comprend dans quelle galère il s'est fourré, il est déjà trop tard... Commence alors pour ce duo improbable et attachant une série d'aventures rocambolesques qui les aideront à se reconstruire et à se réconcilier avec la vie. Un roman d'apprentissage drôle et décalé qui nous encourage à suivre nos rêves, même les plus fous.

Alistair est un génie. Derrière son écran, il a appris les mathématiques, la planétologie, la science des matériaux et même à décrypter les émotions des gens. Mais à vingt et un ans, Alistair n'est jamais sorti de l'appartement où il vit seul avec sa mère. Son rêve : aller sur la Lune. Il est prêt. Et sa mère l'a promis : le jour où elle montera au ciel, il pourra faire ce qu'il voudra. En voyant ce jeune type à l'air un peu paumé sortir de l'immeuble, Yaro, dix-huit ans, sans-papiers, pense avoir flairé la bonne affaire. Quand il comprend dans quelle galère il s'est fourré, il est déjà trop tard... Commence alors pour ce duo improbable et attachant une série d'aventures rocambolesques qui les aideront à se reconstruire et à se réconcilier avec la vie. Un roman d'apprentissage drôle et décalé qui nous encourage à suivre nos rêves, même les plus fous.

Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind. As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children. The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.

CG Drews, acclaimed author of Don't Let the Forest In, returns with another deeply unsettling and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of murder and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Evander has lived like a ghost in the forgotten corners of the Hazelthorn estate ever since he was taken in by his reclusive billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, when he was a child. For his safety, Evander has been given three ironclad rules to follow: He can never leave the estate. He can never go into the gardens. And most importantly, he can never again be left alone with Byron's charming, underachieving grandson, Laurie. That last rule has been in place ever since Laurie tried to kill Evander seven years ago, and yet somehow Evander is still obsessed with him. But when Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family's vast wealth. There’s just one caveat: He must choose a new guardian from amongst Laurie's scheming, backstabbing relatives to help manage the estate until he turns eighteen. Except Evander's sure his guardian was murdered, and Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer before they come for Evander next. Perhaps even more concerning is how the overgrown garden is refusing to stay behind its walls, slipping its vines and spores deeper into the house with each passing day. As the family’s dark secrets unravel alongside the growing horror of their terribly alive, bloodthirsty garden, Evander needs to find out what he’s really inheriting before the garden demands to be fed once more.

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America’s feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.

Enfant abandonné, Ichirô est élévé comme un fils par un mystérieux samouraï qui lui enseigne la voie du sabre. Vivant reclus dans les montagnes, au cœur d'une nature sauvage, il grandit au rythme des saisons, entre une insouciance bienheureuse et un apprentissage qui exige persévérance et courage. Mais par une nuit terrible, Ichirô voit sa vie basculer. Il doit tourner le dos à son enfance pour affronter le monde et son destin.