Foreign Rights Univers Poche - Page 4 - 3 > BESTSELLERS FRANCK THILLIEZ Over 1.8 Million copies sold Franck Thilliez is the author of a dozen successful thrillers including La Chambre des morts, awarded the Quai du Polar Reader’s Prize in 2006 and the SNCF French Thriller Award in 2007. His series starring Lucie Henebelle and Franck Sharko has just been sold to Indian Paintbrush/Paramount for a movie adaptation. “A huis-clos that is both stuffy and chilling at the same time.” Ici Paris Stand Alones Puzzle To be published in October 2013 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available First rule: Nothing you’re about to live is true. This is a game. Second rule: One of you will die. Action, extreme tension, moral dilemma, hidden secrets, ambiguous characters, unexpected developments, an amazing twist… A favorite for the genre’s lovers. Darksider 13 October 2011 Sample English translation available Rights sold: China (Beijing Booky) Some secrets are shameful. But would you be willing to die to keep them hidden? Three men wake up at the bottom of an abyss. One is chained at the wrist, the second is chained at the ankle and the third is free but his head is covered by a horrible mask that will explode if he moves away from the others. How far will they have to go to survive? 19 00 > BESTSELLERS 4 > BESTSELLERS Franck Sharko & Lucie Henebelle Rights sold: US (Penguin), Spain (Destino), Spain Catalan (Columna), Italy (Nord), Germany (Goldmann), The Netherlands (Sijthoff), Brazil (Intrinseca), Russia (Atticus), Taiwan (Eurasian Publishing Group), Portugal (Sextante), Turkey (Pegasus), Japan (Hayakawa), China (Hachette Phoenix) Film rights sold to Indian Paintbrush/Paramount ATOM[KA] 11 October 2012 Reader’s report available There is a frontier between the moment when life ends and death begins Some have been there… A double manhunt that will lead the pair to a killer obsessed by the phenomena of hypothermia and whose traces bring them to the darkest of all destinations: Chernobyl and its exclusion zone. Available titles Syndrome [E] 14 October 2010 English translation available Can violence be triggered at will? [GATACA] 14 April 2011 Reader’s report available Evolution is an exception. Extinction is a rule. By the same author: Franck Sharko’s first investigations! > BESTSELLERS ÉRIC GIACOMETTI & JACQUES RAVENNE Jacques Ravenne is the pseudonym of a high-ranking Freemason with intimate knowledge of the history and culture of the Order. Éric Giacometti is an investigative journalist who has reported extensively on Freemasonic mores. Antoine Marcas’ Freemasonic Investigations Over 1 million copies sold A series of 8 suspenseful thrillers that introduce the reader to the secrets of Freemasonry and offer an enlightening historical parallel to modern investigations. Rights sold: Brazil (Objetiva), Bulgaria (Millenium), Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Denmark (Cicero), Germany (Rowohlt), Hungary(IPC),Italy(NewtonCompton),Japan(Kodansha),TheNetherlands(DeBoekerij),Norway(CappelenDamm),Portugal (Europa America), Russia (Veche), Spain (Random House Mondadori), Turkey (Pegasus), Poland (Publicat) “Umfangreich recherchiert, kenntnisreich und spannend erzählt.” Jörg Kijanski, Allemagne “Deux nouveaux cadors du polar.” Le Point 5 > BESTSELLERS “An authentic, exciting, esoteric thriller that mixes History, imagination and current affairs, signed by 2 bestselling authors.” Figaro Magazine “660 extremely efficient pages.” Les Echos Volume 8. The Black Temple 14 June 2012 Nearly 100,000 copies sold In London, a secret society named the Black Temple plans to change the course of history. The only way for Antoine Marcas to stop them is to solve the ultimate mystery of the Templars. Prequel The Seventh Templar 9 June 2011 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Over 200,000 copies sold Freemason Detective Antoine Marcas is set on the tracks of the Templars’ longlost treasure. But the treasure also interests the Catholic Church, on the verge of bankruptcy, who will stop at nothing to lay hands on it... “Rich, well-documented, strongly founded, and devilishly addicting.” Le Parisien “Between the cascade of entertainment and the unique revelations, The Seventh Templar is sure to appeal to a large audience.” Lire 6 7 > BESTSELLERS karine giebel Karine Giébel was born in 1971. Her first novel, Terminus Elicius (La Vie du rail, 2004) won the Marseille Detective Novel Award in 2005. It was followed by Meurtres pour rédemption (republished by Fleuve Noir in 2010). Till Death Do Us Unite 12 November 2009 Sample English translation available The mountain won’t hide their crimes much longer... Bloodhounds 13 November 2008 Rights sold: The Netherlands (The House of Books) Two human beings become the game of an extraordinary hunt... a manhunt… The Hungry Dark 8 November 2007 Sample English translation and Reader’s Report available Rights sold: Italy (BUR), The Netherlands (The House of Books), Spain (Circulo de Lectores), Ukraine/Russia (Family Leisure Club) SNCF French Thriller Award in 2009 Cognac & Frontignan Detective Novel Award 2008 A trapped man. A woman thirsty for revenge. An oppressive plot behind closed doors. 8 > BESTSELLERS The Innocence of the Damned To be published 5 May 2013 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Beat at their own game. After spending many years in jail, Raphael is released and soon leads his younger brother to a jewellery heist on Place Vendôme. But the initial plan goes wrong and William is seriously injured. The fugitives end up in an isolated farm where Sandra, a vet, lives. She is taken hostage and forced to cure William. But the boys ignore that they are in the Devil’s House. From predators, they’ll soon become targets of a pitiless monster. • A very dark novel, with no mercy for the characters (and the reader) in which a team of robbers haphazardly meet a psychopath. An atomic concertina! • In the vein of Meurtres pour rédemption (over 50,000 copies sold), one of the most striking title by Karine Giébel, with common themes: imprisonment, lost freedom and pain. The Shadow 8 March 2012 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Cognac & Marseille Detective Novel Award 2012 Nearly 40,000 copies sold The perfect crime exists. It is deceitful, it takes its time and, most of all, it doesn’t appear to anyone… but the victim. • A complex, multi-layered thriller that takes the reader on an intense, sometimes shocking, often frightening voyage of one woman’s struggle against one man’s dangerous and inescapable psychosis. “The great female thriller writer has returned with a blood chilling story.” Ici Paris “SUCCESS!! Relentless plot line coupled with a fascinating portrait of a woman.” Metro CLAUDE IZNER Claude Izner is the pen name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, who are both second-hand booksellers along the Seine. Mysteries in Paris The International Bestseller Nearly 800,000 copies sold in France English translations available Rights sold: USA (St Martin’s Press), UK (Gallic Books), Italy (Nord), Germany (Pendo), Russia (AST/Astrel), Sweden (Kabusa Böcker), Brasil (Nemo) Each investigation is set in a famous place of Paris Paris, at the end of the 19th Century. Victor Legris is in his 30’s and works as a bookseller. He regularly finds himself confronted with mysteries and that’s good luck because he loves acting as a detective. Embark with the author Claude Izner on an unusual walk across the Capital of Lights. Available titles > BESTSELLERS 9 GILLES LEGARDINIER > BESTSELLERS 10 Gilles Legardinierhas already published several novels including adaptations, children’s books and thrillers which have been awarded many times (see page 19). Well Done! 18 October 2012 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Taiwan (Walkers Culture) Nearly 50,000 copies sold Four intertwined destinies under the same roof that will learn to settle in, get to know and eventually love each other Tired of a world that he no longer feels part of, Andrew Blake leaves the head of his small company in London to find a job as a butler in France. Upon his arrival at the Beauvillier Manor, he goes beyond simply reinventing himself. He who was looking for a new beginning will first have to get back in touch with his past. No more, I promise! 10 November 2011 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Rights sold: Italy (Mondadori), Germany (Goldmann), Spain (Alfaguara), Czech Republic (Domino), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Korea (Sweet Books), Russia (Sindbad), Hungary (Park), China (Straits Multi-Media) Over 155,000 copies sold The fabulous destiny of Julie, desperately romantic and utterly clumsy What is the stupidest thing you have ever done in your life? After getting her hand stuck in her mysterious neighbor’s mailbox, Julie swore that she would quit acting crazy but she is about to do much worse trying to get closer to this man… "The perfect anti-crisis remedy" 11 > CÉLINE’S PICK / family comedy TIM SLIDERS Timeville 15 November 2012 Volume 1 – 80’s TV rights sold You are sleeping. You wake up in your house with your wife and your two children. It is certainly your house, and yet… Something has changed. The era! Welcome to Timeville! • Did you like Replay? Are you a fan of Back to the Future? If so, you’ll love Timeville. • Through the wacky, amusing and moving adventures of an ordinary family, Tim Sliders accurately addresses core values. • The Cartiers are attaching characters that we want to follow and who evolve along with the series of books. Don’t tell anyone but Tim Sliders is a famous author and scriptwriter whose real name cannot be revealed… Editor 12 > FRANÇOIS’ PICK / 100% digital Deputy ManagingDirectorAwakening The first digital and apocalyptic series published in real time! 21 episodes were posted (without DRM) from 1st to 21st December 2012, rumored date for the end of the world. Martin Hurston is a doctor and researcher in neuropsychiatry. He wakes up from a coma whose real causes are unclear and consequences huge and disturbing. Is he an Awake? But who are the Awakes exactly? Camille-Laure Mari is 23, she’s an Arts student. She has won a writing contest organised with the website WeLoveWords. As series dedicated to sexy breaks. Very short (4,500 characters) to short (up to 40,000 characters), these 27 easy-to-read and easy-to-access short stories are declined in different colors depending on the erotic content : 1 - Sweet Pleasures 2 - Spicy Pleasures 3 - Hot Pleasures Short Crime Novels A hundred noir novellas. Most of the texts by Sophie Loubière have been broadcasted during the author’s radio program on France Inter. Those by Gérard Moss are original titles. Camille-Laure Mari Short Eroticas
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