For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn't. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.But already Beck is being hunted down. He's headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.From the Hardcover edition.
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).
Each reader includes:
- A CD with a reading of the adapted story.
- Helpful notes on characters.
- Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot.
- A glossary of the more difficult words.
Hercule Poirot is travelling from France to England by plane. During the journey a passenger is murdered.
Someone on the flight is guilty of the crime - but who could have a motive for killing an elderly lady? And how is it possible that no one saw it happen?
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Pour chaque ouvrage acheté, une version audio mp3 est téléchargeable gratuitement sur le site.The Mannequin and the Monkey - THRILLER :London, the early 1900s. Amélie, the star model of the city's most opulent department store, is found murdered in her bedroom. The door was locked from the inside, and the only living thing in the room is a small monkey. Detective Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate...Cet ouvrage est également disponible en e-book chez votre e-libraire habituel.
When Dr. Alexandre Lelong arrives in Toulouse to examine a young American woman with amnesia, he thinks she is simply an intriguing psychiatric case. But there is nothing simple about Marilyn Jensen's amnesia. She has a completely new personality, and even a new language : French. As his feelings for her become stronger, the mystery of her condition deepens : is it purely psychiatric, or is she possessed by the spirit of a different woman?A psychiatric thriller in the best tradition, Distant Echo keeps you guessing until the end.
La city est en émoi : le corps du banquier Neil Masters vient d'être retrouvé dans un parking. Le meurtre est revendiqué par un personnage énigmatique qui s'est baptisé "le Trader"...
Découvrez la collection Paper Planes : des romans contemporains en anglais courts et accessibles, haletants ou drôles qui privilégient le plaisir de lire en version originale.Pour mieux connaître les auteurs, les ouvrages et les avis de la presse et des lecteurs : www.paperplanes.fr.Pour chaque ouvrage acheté, une version audio mp3 est téléchargeable gratuitement.The Exsanguinist - THRILLERLondon, 1914. A killer is at liberty in the dark alleys of the city. The cadavers of his victims all have one thing in common : there is no blood in their bodies. As the Exsanguinist's reign of terror continues, Detective Silas Quinn finds his suspicions focussing on the members of an exclusive gentleman's club...Atmospheric and macabre, The Exsanguinist takes the reader on an inexorable voyage into horror.Cet ouvrage est également disponible en e-book chez votre e-libraire habituel.
A Pentagon employee is accused of leaking secret information to an internet site.
A lie-detector test suggests he is guilty. Facing prison for life, his only hope is Dr Alexandre Lelong, a psychologist with an extremely rare talent : the ability to "read" people's true thoughts by observing microscopic changes in their facial expressions. Award-winning author Janice Hally enters the world of Pentagon scandals and internet leaks for this contemporary thriller.
