Among these Tarquin Hall which opens the series

Revealed in the 1990s and covered with international awards, Michael Connelly, born in 1956, is one of the great success of the North American black roman authors. Her favourite character is Harry Bosch (his real name) (Hieronymus, in tribute to the Flemish painter), son of unknown father and a murdered prostitute. A veteran of the Viet Nam, who has made a career in the police, and once retired, resumed service to the LAPD. Intuitive COP, that its particular methods are often coquetry with legality.

Bosch is not the hero of novelty 2009, "the Verdict of the lead." admirers is reassuring, it is not absent, but appears featured guest although it is closer to that each of them think the hero, Mickey Haller, counsel to Los Angeles, already met in "The defence Lincoln", where he was wounded. Accused of killing his wife and her lover, Walter Elliot, powerful film producer, must pass judgment. Why Haller, healed and déshabitué of certain drugs, the defending Because, to his death, a colleague and friend, Jerry Vincent, killed in a parking lot, he transferred his cabinet and current affairs. The road will cross that of Bosch; a tasty confrontation between two maniacs of the truth. Reports explosive first, but the result will be surprising. With Haller, the hurluberlu has his Office in his car, Connelly has created a new character, also successful than his rival police. "The Verdict of the lead", once started, only to loose more.

Recurs simultaneously in Points published Bosch investigated last year on the threshold, "A knee". Still a sordid murder that must find the culprit Dr. Stanley Kent was shot with two bullets of gun in the neck. He was carrying in his car of tubes containing caesium. Is this death due to terrorists wanting to capture this radioactive material, which would explain that the FBI is interested in the matter Is the truth more prosaic Bosch in will see colourful before untangle a relentless scheme. But it must do so quickly. Gasped, exciting, a novel punch appeared serialized in "New York Times", enriched, for this Edition, an additional chapter.Let us rejoice: the new Connelly, "the scarecrow", just published in the United States, the Canada and Britain last May...

Historic polar

Well known fans, the collection 10/18 great detectives welcomes this spring, a younger sister: police domain. Great detectives made a specialty of the historic polar; "Police domain" will be the witness of the contemporary world. With already well known authors, Eliot Pattison, Magdalen Naab, Ake Edwardson. And new entrants. Among these, Tarquin Hall, which opens the series. Citizen of the world, journalist, writer, husband of an Indian journalist and recently father, passing his time between London and Delhi. The India, he has a deep knowledge. This is probably what led him to be "The man that satisfies the wishes," which has just been published in France and was simultaneously translated into fourteen languages. His hero A detective whose any New Delhi exalts, Vish (short for Vishwas) Puri (the title could be the translation of his name), "Chubby" for family and friends. Very young and not very beautiful step: the small 50, a slight tendency to overweight, inordinate taste for English clothes and pakoras pepper, a formidable flair... and a deep admiration for Chanakaya, thinker who officiated three hundred years before the Christian era.

Sympathetic, despite an oversized ego, the pattern of Most Private Investigators Ltd. and its bloodhounds, Tubelight, Flush and Facecream know little respite. It may be to discover if an enterprising young man will, to a girl of good family, an acceptable husband... or find by whom and why a young servant, barely landed his province, was murdered. This second case will mobilize Vish and his troops, which will be evidence of tip and delicacy, as the main accused is a renowned lawyer. That their adventures are deliciously houseboats is not enough; humorous and affectionate, the gaze is Tarquin Hall on the India seems deeply fair. Poverty and wealth, modernism consumerism and attachment to the past, mined by poverty and corruption, but always willing to advance a disturbing and enchanting country is mentioned with love in this novel to the devastating charm.