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Translated title: Hide and Seek

Author: Sveistrup, Soren

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 704 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91808

Translated
Soren Sveistrup is back with a story as clever as it is twisted, one that will keep even the sharpest minds on the edge of their seats! Le Dauphiné Libéré Soren Sveistrup is back. So lock the door and get out your baseball bat.

If October knocked the wind out of you, Hide and Seek will take your breath away! Berlingske One, two, let's play a game. It all begins with an innocent nursery rhyme that children sing when they play hide and seek...

Three, four, I'm going to beat you senseless. Only to suddenly turn into a nightmare... Five, six, the game has to end. And awaken the memory of a bloody past.

After October, the master of Danish thrillers, Soren Sveistrup, returns with a stunning script that pits the investigative duo Mark Hess and Naia Thulin against one of the most complex and chilling cases of their careers
Les heures fragiles

Les heures fragiles

Translated title: The Fragile Hours

Author: Grimaldi, Virginie

Genre: Family Saga

Year: 2025 | Pages: 331 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91822

Diane has always had simple dreams. A husband, two children, a job she loves - it's more than she ever dared hope for. The day Seb leaves her, her world crumbles.

Consumed by her grief, she doesn't see the real drama unfolding elsewhere. Right next to her, in the room across from hers, her daughter's laughter is fading. Lou is sixteen, struggling with growing up, and her first heartbreak is bringing her more than just tears.

When Diane understands, she's ready to do anything to help her. Even return to a past she had fled. Together, mother and daughter walk a tightrope. Beneath their feet, the torrent of life roars, sweeping away their fragile moments
Apnée

Apnée

Translated title: Apnea

Author: Delzongle, Sonja

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 540 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91809

A plunge into the abyss of evil. On the shores of the Red Sea, in Egypt, Lukas Berger dives to break the world freediving record, a moment this young prodigy has been preparing for his entire life. Before him lies the Blue Hole, a mythical sinkhole renowned for its beauty as much as for its danger. Lukas will not resurface. He simply disappears, as if the abyss had swallowed him whole.

Did he drift off? Did he suffer a medical emergency that dragged him to the bottom? But then why is his watch still attached to the cable that connected him to the surface? When, shortly after, the mutilated body of another diver is discovered in the depths, this time Lukas's wife is convinced: it was no accident. And the search for the truth will unearth some very dark stories
Après

Après

Translated title: Later

Author: King, Stephen

Genre: Horror / Mystery

Year: 2023 | Pages: 342 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86870

Translated
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears
Audrey Rose

Audrey Rose

Translated title: Audrey Rose #1 - Audrey Rose

Series: Book 1

Author: Felitta, Frank De

Genre: Horror / Thriller

Year: 2023 | Pages: 480 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86879

Translated
Suppose a stranger told you your daughter was his daughter in another life? Suppose you began to believe him? Suppose it was true?
La maison vide

La maison vide

Translated title: The Empty House

Author: Mauvignier, Laurent

Genre: Family Saga

Year: 2025 | Pages: 752 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91817

In 1976, my father reopened the house he had inherited from his mother, which had remained closed for twenty years. Inside: a piano, a chest of drawers with a chipped marble top, a Legion of Honor medal, photographs from which a face had been cut out with scissors.

A house filled with stories, where two world wars intersect, along with rural life in the first half of the twentieth century, but also Marguerite, my grandmother, her mother Marie-Ernestine, Marie-Ernestine's mother, and all the men who had been part of their lives.

Each and every one of them had left their mark on the house and had gradually faded away. I tried to bring them back into the light to understand what their story might have been, and how it cast its shadow over our own
Rages

Rages

Author: Nadal, Marie-Pierre

Genre: Horror / Mystery

Year: 2023 | Pages: 176 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 86873

Horror
Maria: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme

Maria: Une Enquête De Joseph Laflamme

Translated title: Maria: The Joseph Laflamme Investigations

Series: Volume 3

Author: Gagnon, Hervé

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2024 | Pages: 512 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91857

Montreal, January 1836. A book rocks the city: it recounts sordid tales of fornication between the Hospitaller Sisters of the Hôtel-Dieu and the Sulpicians, evoking desecration, murder, and debauchery. High society is in an uproar, and the bishop must defend the reputation of his diocese. Montreal, September 1892. A mass grave of children is discovered on Le Royer Street. Then, the mutilated body of a banker is found in Griffintown, and two little girls bearing terrible signs of sexual abuse are pulled from the river near de la Commune Street. The three cases seem unrelated until an elderly priest gives Joseph Laflamme a copy of the 1836 book, hinting that history is repeating itself. To unravel the plot, Laflamme, Inspector Arcand and the rest of the group will have to penetrate a world of corruption with unsuspected ramifications and unearth a scandal buried for half a century
Le Château des Rentiers

Le Château des Rentiers

Translated title: The Rentiers' Castle

Author: Desarthe, Agnès

Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel

Year: 2023 | Pages: 224 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91863

Looking up at the eighth floor of a tower block in Paris's 13th arrondissement, Agnès's thoughts take her to Boris and Tsila, her grandparents, and all those who once lived in the same building. On Rue du Château des Rentiers, these Jews from Central Europe had once invented a communal life, a phalanstery.

Time has passed, but what does it matter, since with imagination, one can be 17, 22, 53, and 90 years old all at once: past and present overlap, years telescope into one another, and the utopia experienced by Boris and Tsila becomes Agnès's own project. Growing old? Yes, but in the company of those one loves.

Such is the lesson of this novel, full of humor and riddles - what does the Garden of Eden look like? What is the exact recipe for walnut cake? What is a story told to deaf people by mute people? - which takes us on a dizzying journey through the generations
Maîtresse

Maîtresse

Translated title: Mistress

Author: Marra, Valerio

Genre: Horror

Year: 2025 | Pages: 289 | Origin: FRA | BA Seq Num: 91814

Are you ready to step through the doors of a kindergarten? A psychological horror thriller that tells the story of a teacher's descent into hell. You should always be wary of children's drawings...

'Who is that in this drawing? - He's mean. He'll kill me. - What are you saying? You're a child... - He'll kill me. When I grow up.'

When Giulia becomes Teo's teacher, she notices a boy who only communicates with his crayons.

As the days go by, the child's scribbles become increasingly frightening. When Giulia discovers elements that concern her, a slow descent into hell begins

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