Quand Abbie se réveille, elle pense être sur un lit hôpital. L'homme à son chevet, Tim, se présente comme son mari. C'est un génie de la tech, le fondateur de l'une des start-up les plus innovantes de la Silicon Valley. Il lui dit qu'elle est une artiste talentueuse, la mère dévouée de Danny, leur jeune fils - et la femme parfaite. Cinq ans plus tôt, elle aurait eu un grave accident. Son retour à la vie serait un miracle de la science, une révolution technologique dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle, à laquelle il a sacrifié dix ans de son existence. Et pour cause : Abbie est désormais un compagnon-robot, un « cobot ». Mais Tom est-il sincère dans ses motivations, et peut-elle se fier à sa version des événements ? Doit-elle le croire quand il affirme qu'il souhaite que leur couple dure toujours ? Et qu'est-il réellement arrivé à l'ancienne Abbie ?...
Lorsqu'elle découvre le One Folgate Street, Jane est conquise par cette maison ultramoderne, minimaliste, parfaite pour tourner la page après le drame éprouvant qu'elle vient de vivre. Mais, pour la louer, il faut se plier aux règles draconiennes imposées par son architecte, Edward Monkford, aussi mystérieux que séduisant. Notamment répondre régulièrement à des questionnaires intrusifs. Jane apprend bientôt qu'Emma, la locataire qui l'a précédée, lui ressemble étrangement et a connu une fin tragique. Irrémédiablement, Jane s'engage sur la même voie, fait les mêmes choix, croise les mêmes personnes... et ressent la même terreur que la fille d'avant.
Un thriller psychologique poussé dans des retranchements rarement explorés. Valérie Gans, Figaro madame.
Diabolique. Alix Girod de l'Ain, Elle.
La version 3.0 du Manderley de Daphné du Maurier. Étourdissant. Marie Rogatien, Le Figaro Magazine.
Une bonne surprise, impossible à lâcher. Delphine Peras, L'Express.
Étudiante en art dramatique à New York, Claire finance ses cours de théâtre en jouant un rôle peu conventionnel : elle flirte, pour le compte d'un cabinet d'avocats spécialisé dans les divorces, avec des hommes mariés suspectés d'infidélité. Sa couverture fonctionne parfaitement. Jusqu'à ce que l'une de ses « proies » soit soupçonnée de meurtre. La police exige alors de Claire qu'elle utilise ses talents d'actrice pour pousser Patrick Fogler à confesser son crime. En somme, qu'elle leur serve d'appât. Pourtant, cet universitaire élégant est loin du manipulateur pervers qu'on lui a décrit. Sans compter qu'il demeure indifférent aux avances de Claire.
Pourquoi cette mise en scène ressemble-t-elle de plus en plus à un vaste mensonge ? Alors que Claire pensait y faire une apparition de figurante, y tiendrait-elle, à son insu, le premier rôle le plus dangereux de sa vie ?
The much-anticipated gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before - pre-order now! The child you never knew knows all your secrets . . . Out of the blue, Susie Jones is contacted on social media by Anna, the girl she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago. But when they meet, Anna''s home life sounds distinctly strange to Susie and her husband Gabe. And when Anna''s adoptive parents seem to overreact to the fact she contacted them at all, Susie becomes convinced that Anna needs her help. But is Anna''s own behaviour simply what you''d expect from someone recovering from a traumatic childhood? Or are there other secrets at play here - secrets Susie has also been hiding for the last fifteen years? See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest name in psychological thrillers: ''DAZZLING'' - Lee Child ''ADDICTIVE'' - Daily Express ''DEVASTATING'' - Daily Mail ''INGENIOUS'' - New York Times ''COMPULSIVE'' - Glamour Magazine ''ELEGANT'' - Peter James ''SEXY'' - Mail on Sunday ''ENTHRALLING'' - Woman and Home ''ORIGINAL'' - The Times ''RIVETING'' - Lisa Gardner ''CREEPY'' - Heat ''SATISFYING'' - Reader''s Digest ''SUPERIOR'' - The Bookseller ''MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS'' - Sunday Times
The perfect life. The perfect love. The perfect lie. From the bestselling author of The Girl Before comes a gripping new psychological thriller. . . . Dynamic, razor-sharp, and thought-provoking . . . a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any youve read before.--Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. Hes a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valleys most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss. She is a miracle of science. But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins questioning her husbands motives--and his version of events. Can she trust him when he says he wants them to be together forever? And what really happened to Abbie half a decade ago? Beware the man who calls you . . . THE PERFECT WIFE Advance praise for The Perfect Wife A twisty, completely original psychological thriller that grabs you from the start and doesnt let go until the very end. --Karen Cleveland, New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant. . . . speculative fiction mixed up with a mind-bendingly twisty psycho thriller! I devoured it. --C. J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man A tour de force . . . The Perfect Wife is a chilling and uniquely disturbing twenty-first-century twist on the unreliable narrator that makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking book. It asks troubling questions about selfhood and souls and what makes us human, and plays them out in a compelling psychological thriller. --Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home
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THE SENSATIONAL NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIRL BEFORE Pete Riley is a stay-at-home dad; his partner Maddie works in advertising. After Pete drops two-year-old Theo off at nursery one morning, he's politely accosted by a man who looks just like Theo. The man, Miles Lambert, breaks the devastating news that Theo is in fact not Pete's son, but his - the two babies got mixed up at hospital, and Miles and his wife Lucy now have the Rileys' son at home. They've already carried out DNA testing to prove it. The two couples agree that, rather than swap the children back, they'll try to involve each other in the children's lives. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an official investigation that unearths some disturbing questions about just how the babies got mixed up. And when Theo is thrown out of nursery for hitting other children, Pete and Maddie have to ask themselves: how far do they want this arrangement to go? What are the secrets hidden behind the Lamberts' smart front door? And how much can they trust the real parents of their child - or even each other? An addictive psychological thriller, perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door. See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest name in psychological thrillers: 'DAZZLING' - Lee Child 'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express 'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail 'INGENIOUS' - New York Times 'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine 'ELEGANT' - Peter James 'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday 'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home 'ORIGINAL' - The Times 'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner 'CREEPY' - Heat 'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest 'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller 'MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS' - Sunday Times
''JP Delaney is King of Thrillers'' FIONA CUMMINS When Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say their father has died, neither is heartbroken. Their parents divorced many years ago, after which their father, Jimmy, continued to live a bohemian lifestyle in sun-soaked Mallorca, while his family returned to the UK.
Ownership of his home, a beautiful but dilapidated farmhouse in the mountains, now passes to Finn and his sister. The only problem is that Jimmy recently remarried for the third time, and his new wife, Ruensa, is still living there.
The pair agree that Finn should go to Mallorca and tactfully take possession of their inheritance. When he arrives, however, Finn is surprised to find that Finca Siquia has been completely transformed into a chic Mediterranean bolthole by Ruensa - along with her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Roze. The Spanish police, meanwhile, are asking awkward questions about Jimmy''s death . . . Are Ruensa and Roze the helpless victims of circumstance? Or will they stop at nothing to get Finca Siquia for themselves?
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