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A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES CRIME & Anna Howell Translation/Copy editing: Translation/Copy MYSTERY CRIME & MYSTERY A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES A word from the editor Although practically all fairs and 80 crime and mystery titles, a particularly strong potential for professional events were canceled spanning all genres and for translation in numerous markets. between March and August 2020, all audiences, which have recently book professionals throughout been published (or are about to be) You may discover these books one the world have continued to work by French publishers. by one or you may search by genre, from a distance with their partners. thanks to the interactive links. As publications progressively Many French crime and mystery resume in numerous countries, authors are already stars abroad. To find out more about each it is finally possible to take a bit But you will also discover of the titles presented, we have more time to discover the best new names and some rather provided the e-mail address of in international publishing. original subjects. the appropriate person to contact in each publishing house. To help you in that respect, First novels or experienced the BIEF (Bureau International authors, titles that have sometimes Happy reading! We hope that you de l’Édition Française) is very already been translated into many will make some exciting discoveries! pleased to present you with languages… Whatever the case may this interactive selection of be, all of these works have Bureau International de l’Édition Française June 2020 115, bd Saint-Germain - 75006 Paris, France t. +33 (0)1 44 41 13 13 - f. +33 (0)1 46 34 63 83 [email protected] - www.bief.org In partnership with CRIME & MYSTERY A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES Detective Roman noir Historical P 16 - 22 P 29 - 36 P 41 - 42 > 18.3: A Year at the Station > Breathing Bark > By Spear and Shield > And So She Dances > Brothers > Intrigue in Egypt > And Then Death. > Crimes in Cold Blood > The Bonfire of Destiny Thriller > Balto: The Last Jack of Hearts > Dark Heatwave P 4 - 15 > Dark Pumpkins > Donbass > Jean Melville's Profile > Haunting Tomorrows Ecological > A Dream Woman > Mr. Mayor > Is That How Men Judge? > Clinton Road > Player > Nada P 43 - 44 > Five Burned Cards > Requiem for a Republic > Room and Board > Mutants in the Pond > Helena > Such an Easy Case > Shots with Friends in Cognac > Philippine Lomar's Investigations: > In the House > The Caspian High-Roller > Somb Poison in the Water > In the Jails of Siberia > The Dead Detective > The Godmother > Trafficking in the Talon Pit > Irons > The Girl Who Cried Underwater > The Second Wife > Lady Elliot Island > Tyler Cross > Nijar's Dolls > Wealth Obliging Occult > Pandora's Eyes > Zippo > Save Her Young Adult P 45 > Stronger Than Her P 23 - 28 > Incidents in the Night (volume 1) > Surface > Blackbone: Coltan Song Dystopian > The Guardians of Silence > The Day of Ashes > Cannibal > The Devil's Hour > Exit 32b P 37 - 38 > The Ghost Researcher > I Just Wanted to Be Free > Agency 42 > The Idols' Undoing > Keep Hope > The Lights of Tel Aviv Espionage > The Man from > Manila in Tears > The Sixteenth Key P 46 the Northern Plains > Nightwork > The Windless City > The Vivaldi Code > The Undertakers: > Run Billie Birds of Misfortune (book 2) > Seven Days to Survive > The Unfaithful > Ten Children's Books > The World Doesn't Exist > The Estate P 39 - 40 > Venom > The Starpoint Project: > At the Crown's Service > What You Made Me The Redhaired Girl > John Chatterton's Famous Detective Stories > The Trial A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES CRIME & MYSTERY Detective Young Adult Roman Noir Dystopian Children's Books Thriller Historical Ecological Occult Espionage Viviane Hamy Ankama Une femme de rêve Clinton Road A DREAM CLINTON ROAD A thriller about an urban legend, WOMAN in the vein of Stephen King. John is a ranger in Passaic County – nothing unusual about Nico, a teenage girl, has just helped her father, that. Except that Clinton Road, 10 miles of asphalt that he a robber who has committed multiple offenses, patrols daily, turns out to be the most haunted road in the to escape from jail via a helicopter. They hope to go United States, plagued by disturbing disappearances and to Brazil, where Nico is looking forward to finally paranormal phenomena. As it just so happens, it’s also the enjoying life and above all, reconnecting road where his only son, Benjamin, was last seen before with the mother who abandoned her. he disappeared. But John, who is unable to grieve for his Dominique Sylvain Vincenzo Balzano son, takes refuge in an altered reality where fantasies creep Karmia has just escaped from prison with the help of his their way in… Find out more daughter, Nico. Schrödinger's the one who was responsible > Dominique Sylvain's work has been for his nasty arrest, which left Severine, Schrödinger's 9791033511403 / 2020 / 144 pages / 17,90 € translated into approximately fifteen partner and lover, in a coma. Father and daughter have languages and several of her works kidnapped Adèle, a mother and volunteer teacher at the prison. Meanwhile, the story of "The Chosen One" unfolds have been adapted for the screen as a young amnesiac woman propelled to another world > Print run: 10,000 copies searches for her identity... > Recipient of the 2020 Claude Chabrol Prize, which is awarded to the best 9791097417512 / 2020 / 304 pages / 19,00 € adaptable crime novel and presided over by Dominique Besnehard Lise Chasteloux [email protected] Eva Rowenczyn [email protected] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES CRIME & MYSTERY Detective Young Adult Roman Noir Dystopian Children's Books Thriller Historical Ecological Occult Espionage Fleuve Noir Rivages Cinq cartes brûlées Helena FIVE BURNED HELENA How far will a mother go to protect her children when they do the unthinkable? After Les loups à leur CARDS porte, Jérémy Fel explores this dizzying question in an expertly crafted saga reminiscent What is life if not a deck of cards that's constantly of a psychological thriller. being shuffled? Since the death of her husband, Norma has done every- Mr. and Mrs. Graissac live with their two children in a house thing she can to make sure her children have a normal life: in the Auvergne region. They divorce after he is suspected Graham, the eldest, little Cindy, and the fragile and impul- of sexually abusing their daughter, Laurence. sive Tommy. But one day, Norma lends a helping hand to Laurence picks herself up thanks to high-performance Sophie Loubière Jérémy Fel Hayley, a young golfer whose car has broken down not far sports, until the day her mother and brother, Thierry, have from their house. An innocent decision that will change a car accident: Thierry is seriously wounded and Mrs. Rights sold everything. Soon a dramatic turn of events will bind the Graissac is sent to a mental institution. Russian characters to each other inexorably as they are caught in an Laurence comes back home to take care of her brother and infernal spiral that they would do anything to escape. Any- financially support her family. Find out more thing, no matter how awful. And then there’s Helena… That is how she starts working at the casino in Chaudes- > 15,000 large format copies sold Aigues, where she meets the man who will change her (September 2018) 9782743644673 / 2018 / 800 pages / 23,00 € life dramatically. > 11,000 paperback copies sold (September 2019) 9782265143968 / 2020 / 343 pages / 19,90 € Anne-Sophie Millet [email protected] Marie-Martine Serrano [email protected] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES CRIME & MYSTERY Detective Young Adult Roman Noir Dystopian Children's Books Thriller Historical Ecological Occult Espionage Rageot Stock Dans la maison Dans les geôles de Sibérie IN THE HOUSE IN THE JAILS Fear is an enthralling gamble for creative minds… Eight high school students, who are specializing in applied OF SIBERIA arts, generally spend their Saturday nights partying in an isolated country house. Midnight Express in Siberia. For a change, one of them suggests organizing a thrilling A gripping contemporary story of escape. evening. The goal of the game: to frighten the others, and “The scene unfolds not far from Lake Baikal, where I live make them drink. But with such creative minds, what starts and love and am lucky enough to be loved, in Irkutsk, the out as a good time soon gives way to truly scary staging. capital of eastern Siberia. It’s morning, men in balaclavas The atmosphere becomes oppressive. And when a storm appear out of nowhere. My daughter screams. She’s five Philip Le Roy breaks out, the group is cut off from the world. Soon, Yoann Barbereau years old. I’m arrested right in front of her, then beaten – strange noises resound throughout the house, stones expertly – and interrogated. Worst of all I’m branded with Rights sold appear out of nowhere, a boy disappears, then a girl... Rights sold that ignominious word I struggle to commit to paper: pae- German (world), Spanish (world) The evening turns into a horrific nightmare with no way out. English (UK: Hodder & Stoughton), Complex Chinese (Taiwan: Yuan-Liou) dophile. These men hidden behind balaclavas and shadows 9782700259346 / 2019 / 352 pages / 15,90 € want my skin. They have set in motion an implacable and Find out more brutish process of destruction that has a name, a name I > Number one on the sales chart know, invented by the KGB: Kompromat. ” at the beginning of lockdown > 31,000 copies sold since 9782234086166 / 2020 / 300 pages / 20,90 € its publication in March 2020 > Audiovisual adaptation in the works Sarah Daumerie [email protected] Maÿlis Vauterin [email protected] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES CRIME & MYSTERY Detective Young Adult Roman Noir Dystopian Children's Books Thriller Historical Ecological Occult Espionage Le Lombard Rageot Irons Lady Elliot Island IRONS LADY ELLIOT Whoever thought a construction site was a good place to hide an "accident" has yet to encounter Jack Irons' eagle eye… ISLAND Jack Irons is an engineer who specializes in superstruc- Heaven on earth is about to become hell.