Été 1845. Après des années de débats politiques, New York crée son département de police. Timothy Wilde intègre malgré lui ce fameux NYPD. Ancien barman, il a tout perdu dans un récent incendie : son bar, ses économies et une partie de son visage.
La nuit du 21 août, pendant une ronde, Timothy est bousculé par une petite fille terrifiée. Elle porte une chemise de nuit couverte de sang. Au milieu d'un tissu de mensonges, elle finit par lui révéler qu'elle fuit un homme au capuchon noir qui découpe les enfants en morceaux. Le lendemain matin, le corps d'un petit Irlandais est retrouvé dans une poubelle, une large incision sur le thorax, les organes à nu. La fillette disait vrai, un fou s'en prend aux enfants, mais pas n'importe lesquels, les plus démunis, les immigrés. Timothy se lance dans une traque effrénée pour démasquer cet assassin et éviter que ses sinistres desseins ne mettent la ville de New York à feu et à sang...
'Reader, I murdered him.' JANE STEELE is a brilliant Gothic retelling of JANE EYRE from Edgar-nominated Lyndsay Faye, for fans of LONGBOURN and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. 'I loved it' - Elly Griffiths.
** JANE STEELE HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR AN EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2017 **
Like the heroine of the novel she adores, Jane Steele suffers cruelly at the hands of her aunt and schoolmaster. And like Jane Eyre, they call her wicked - but in her case, she fears the accusation is true. When she flees, she leaves behind the corpses of her tormentors. A fugitive navigating London's underbelly, Jane rights wrongs on behalf of the have-nots whilst avoiding the noose. Until an advertisement catches her eye. Her aunt has died and the new master at Highgate House, Mr Thornfield, seeks a governess. Anxious to know if she is Highgate's true heir, Jane takes the position and is soon caught up in the household's strange spell. When she falls in love with the mysterious Charles Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: can she possess him - body, soul and secrets - and what if he discovers her murderous past?
'Spectacular' Gillian Flynn. THE FATAL FLAME is the stunning third novel in Lyndsay Faye's Edgar Award-nominated series, for fans of Andrew Taylor and Antonia Hodgson's The Devil in the Marshalsea.
A scarred barman turned copper star, the birth of the NYPD, gangs, murder, brothels and bedlam in the dark underworld of nineteenth-century New York.
Timothy Wilde - copper star, tough with a warm heart, learning his craft as a detective.
Valentine Wilde - Timothy's gregarious, glamorous, depraved rogue of a brother.
Mercy Underhill - The intelligent, creative but unstable love of Timothy's life.
Silky Marsh - The beautiful brothel owner whose scheming knows no bounds.
Against the gritty backdrop of the notorious Five Points in 1848, Timothy Wilde is drawn yet again into a disturbing mystery, leading him to the heart of the Bowery girls, the original 'factory girls' in downtown Manhattan.
Someone is starting fires on the streets of New York and Timothy has to unravel a knot of revenge, murder and blackmail if he's to find out who is behind it all and stop them before the whole city goes up in flames...
August 1845 in New York; enter the dark, unforgiving city underworld of the legendary Five Points...
After a fire decimates a swathe of lower Manhattan, and following years of passionate political dispute, New York City at long last forms an official Police Department. That same summer, the great potato famine hits Ireland. These events will change the city of New York for ever.
Timothy Wilde hadn't wanted to be a copper star. On the night of August 21st, on his way home from the Tombs defeated and disgusted, he is plotting his resignation, when a young girl who has escaped from a nearby brothel, crashes into him; she wears only a nightdress and is covered from head to toe in blood. Searching out the truth in the child's wild stories, Timothy soon finds himself on the trail of a brutal killer, seemingly hell bent on fanning the flames of anti-Irish immigrant sentiment and threatening chaos in a city already in the midst of social upheaval. But his fight for justice could cost him the woman he loves, his brother and ultimately his life...
'Spectacular' Gillian Flynn. SEVEN FOR A SECRET is the captivating second novel in Lyndsay Faye's Edgar Award-nominated series, for fans of Andrew Taylor and Antonia Hodgson's The Devil in the Marshalsea.
1846: KIDNAP, MURDER, LOVE AND BETRAYAL ON THE LAWLESS STREETS OF NEW YORK.
Timothy Wilde, copper star in the newly formed NYPD, thinks himself hardened to the darker practices of the city he's grown up in. That is, until he encounters the 'blackbirders', slave-catchers with a right to seize runaways from the Southern states.
When a woman reports her family has been stolen, Timothy and his wayward brother Valentine find themselves plunged into an underworld of violence and deceit, where police are complicit and politics savage. If he's to protect all those he cares about, Timothy must unravel the corruption at the heart of the authority he was hired to defend...
Lorsque Sherlock Holmes et John H. Watson mènent leur enquête sur les meurtres de Jack l'Éventreur...Londres, automne 1888. Les atrocités commises sur deux prostituées assassinées dans le quartier de Whitechapel vont convaincre l'inspecteur Lestrade de solliciter le célèbre spécialiste des affaires criminelles. Qui mieux que Sherlock Holmes, aidé du Dr Watson, saurait traquer l'homme qui sème désormais la terreur parmi la population de l'East End ?
Mais le grand détective ne sortira pas indemne de cette enquête. Pour démasquer son insaisissable adversaire, dont le nom, Jack l'Éventreur, restera longtemps gravé dans les mémoires, il devra enfreindre bien des règles, briser les codes, et tenter de sauver sa vie autant que sa réputation.
Ce soir d'hiver 1846, Lucy Adams franchit, affolée, la porte du commissariat de la nouvelle police de New York. Elle vient porter plainte pour vol et tout en elle crie sa détresse. Quand l'offi cier Timothy Wilde lui demande ce qu'on lui a volé, sa réponse tombe comme un couperet : " Ma famille. "
Sa soeur et son fi ls ont été kidnappés. Comme elle, ce sont d'anciens esclaves, des métis qui ont racheté leur liberté. Leurs ravisseurs les ont enlevés pour les revendre à un propriétaire de plantation du Sud. Et qu'ils soient des citoyens libres ne change rien à leurs yeux.
Timothy, abolitionniste convaincu, est horrifié. Mais dans un monde corrompu où la police et les politiques sont complices des pires exactions, ses chances de retrouver Delia et Jonas sont infi mes... En 1846, la chasse aux esclaves n'est pas seulement légale, c'est l'application même de la loi.
Une plongée glaçante dans la période sombre de l'esclavagisme servie par une langue savoureuse. Un roman spectaculaire !
