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***Shortlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2023*** 'An excellent crime thriller with an explosive climax' Bill Todd, The Sun 'A suspenseful, atmospheric ride' Ben East, Observer A haunting thriller set in the radioactive Chernobyl exclusion zone, Good Reasons to Die will keep readers hooked to the last page. In a village close to Chernobyl, detectives Joseph Melnyk and Galina Novak uncover a man's mutilated body hanging from a building. All clues left at the scene of the crime point to a double homicide that took place on the very night that the nuclear power plant exploded. Doubtful of the abilities of the Ukrainian police, the murdered man's father, a Moscow mafia boss, summons Rybalko, a Russian police officer of dubious morals, to conduct a parallel investigation to find and execute his son's killer. Rybalko goes to Ukraine and recovers the corpse, which no-one has dared to touch because of its radioactive contamination. Good Reasons to Die is a breath-taking thriller set in a dislocated Ukraine where armed conflicts, economic collapse and ecological demands are interwoven with the exhilarating hunt to find a deranged serial killer.
En 1675, en pleine guerre de Hollande, la Prance de Louis XIV est frappée par une F des principales secousses rebellionnaires de l'Ancien Régime, restée célèbre sous le nom de "révolte du papier timbré". De Bordeaux à Quimper, un front intérieur surgit, mais c'est en fait toute une partie de la France qui bruit et conteste, de Toulouse à Besançon et de Grenoble à Paris. A la cour, l'inquiétude est réelle car l'éclat de la récente conquête de la Franche-Comté ne peut masquer les difficultés militaires que la mort de Turenne vient symboliser au coeur de l'été. Dans le même temps, la crainte d'un débarquement hollandais sur la côte Atlantique, susceptible de menacer Roch...
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