Foreign Rights Univers Poche - Page 8 - 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 > deborah’S PICK / NOIR SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE 13 Author of five novels, detective short stories and a children’s book, Sophie Loubière also made a name for herself in the publishing community thanks to a unique literary program (Parking at Night, France Inter) and her reviews at France Info (Thriller Info). Black Coffee 14 February 2013 A serial killer whose confessions have been transcribed, a vanished husband, a man haunted by his past and a woman desperate to reunite her family. A breathless tracking game along Road 66. The Stone Boy 14 April 2011 Sample English translation and Reader's report available Rights sold: World English (Sphere and Grand Central) Over 50,000 copies sold A Hitchcockian Suspense Madame Préau feels that something isn’t right with her neighbors. They have two perfectly healthy children, but a third one appears from time to time and seems to be calling in for help by throwing pebbles at her window. The police refuse to listen. ”A suspenseful psychological thriller, The Stone Boy is also a beautiful picture of a passionately loving grandmother, an unreliable old lady, more nosy and intrusive than Miss Marple.” Françoise Chandernagor ”This book is a real gem full of creativity, humour and suspense.” Franz-Olivier Giesbert in Le Nouvel Observateur Publisher at Fleuve Noir 14 > noir HERVÉ COMMÈRE Hervé Commère was born in Rouen. He is the author of three suspense novels and now lives in Paris. The Second Man (love story) 11 October 2012 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available A man, a woman, a dark love story A simple, almost classic love story until the man comes across a photo of him and his wife... only it is not him on the photo, but a man who looks exactly like him. • A powerful novel about the descent into hell of a man who no longer knows who he is. “A book full of poisonous attraction.” Télé 7 Jours “[Hervé Commère] delivers a literary UFO, at times poetic, at times violent, but always surprising and perfectly crafted.” Ouest France Ripples in Water 10 March 2011 Sample English translation and Reader's report available Marseille Detective Novel Award 2011 Ocean’s Eleven meets Usual Suspects Two stories, two pieces of a real-life jigsaw that are just waiting to be put together… to the misfortune of all. By the same author: > noir BARBARA ABEL 15 Barbara Abel is a renowned author of thrillers that are sold in Germany, Spain and Russia (see page 29). Behind Hatred 12 April 2102 The Ennemy Next Door On one side there is Tiphaine, Sylvain and Maxime, and on the other there is Laetitia, David and Milo. They are neighbors and soon both the parents and children become inseparable. But this perfect painting violently explodes the day that Laetitia witnesses a tragic accident which takes the life of little Maxime. She spirals into a dangerous paranoia. Is it really just a figment of her imagination or has her friend really become her worst enemy? • The cocoon-like atmosphere in protected suburbs, where the pace is easy, serves as a backdrop to a tragic story where madness and the evil flourish. We suffocate in the open ! • In her thrillers Barbara Abel tells the story of everyday people who are flung into a daily hell from one moment to the next. Sequel to be published in November 2013 “If you like “Desperate Housewives”, you will like Derrière la Haine”. Elle > Julie's Pick / NOIR 16 Frédéric DARD Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) wrote a great number of works, using either his own name or that of one of his numerous aliases – especially San-Antonio, with a total of over 200 million copies sold. The Lawn (1952) An oppressive atmosphere worthy of The Postman Always Rings Twice. The Hoist (1961) A slow and relentless descent into hell: Perverse and brilliant! The Wretches (1959) Chronicle of an inevitable tragedy • Adapted to the cinema by Robert Hossein in 1959. The Executioner is Crying (1956) A dark love story Léo MALET Attracted to writing and anarchy, Léo Malet (1909-1996) moved to Paris at the age of 16. In 1943 he published 120 Rue de la Gare under his own name, which portrayed the illustrious Nestor Burma for the first time. With 55 titles, 29 of which are consecrated to Nestor Burma, Leo Malet has definitely entered into the history of French literature. The New Mysteries of Paris A series of 15 detective novels, published between 1954 and 1959. The main character is the detective Nestor Burma, a witty French crime revealer with lots of savoirfaire, operating in France during and just after World War II. • France’s answer to Chandler’s Marlowe. • Several books were made into comics by Jacques Tardi and under his supervision (Casterman). Burma’s character similarly served as the inspiration for a film, Nestor Burma, Hardboiled Detective (1981) and a television series (1991). Rights Manager
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