No witnesses, no evidence, no body: Star psychologist Viktor Larenz’s twelve-year-old daughter, Josy, who had suffered from an inexplicable illness, has vanished under mysterious circumstances during a visit to her doctor, and the investigation into her disappearance has brought no results. Four years later, Viktor remains a man shattered by this tragedy. He has retreated to a remote vacation cottage on a North Sea island, where a beautiful stranger named Anna Glass pays him a visit. She claims to be a novelist who suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: all the characters she creates for her books become real. While writing her most recent novel, Anna has been tortured by visions of a little girl with an unknown illness who has vanished without a trace, and she asks Dr. Larenz to treat her. Viktor reluctantly begins therapy sessions with the stranger, but very soon these sessions take a dramatic turn as the past is dragged back into the light. What really happened to Josy? Do Anna’s delusions describe Josy’s last days? And is Larenz a danger to himself and others?Therapy is an absolutely gripping psychological thriller, an intelligent, fast and furious read that will stay with you for a long time after you have followed Viktor into the depths of his own psyche, and have figured out who Anna Glass really is.

On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting...With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense Emmanuel Carrère begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, 18 years of lies, five murders and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage.But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.

Ilan et Chloé, deux jeunes gens spécialistes des chasses au trésor ont rêvé des années durant de participer à la partie ultime, d’un jeu mystérieux dont on ne connaît pas les règles, dont on ne connaît pas l’entrée, et dont on ne sait même pas s’il existe. Mais dont on connaît le nom : Paranoïa.Lorsqu’un an après leur rupture Chloé réapparaît dans la vie d’Illan en lui annonçant qu’elle sait comment jouer, ce dernier a totalement rompu avec l’univers des jeux, et vit isolé dans la maison de ses parents disparus en mer. Officiellement morts, mais Ilan est persuadé qu’ils ont été enlevés à cause de leurs recherches scientifiques. Après avoir refusé l’aventure, Illan cède alors que Chloé lui fait part de la rumeur : le gagnant remporterait 300 000 euros.Après un premier jeu de pistes dans Paris, les deux amis sont enfin sélectionnés. C’est alors qu’ils découvrent la règle numéro 1 : « Quoiqu’il arrive, rien de ce que vous allez vivre n’est la réalité. Il s’agit d’un jeu. », rapidement suivie, à leur arrivée sur les lieux du jeu - un gigantesque bâtiment isolé en pleine montagne appelé Complexe psychiatrique de Swanessong – de la règle numéro 2 : « L’un d’entre vous va mourir. »Quand les joueurs découvrent le premier cadavre, quand Illan retrouve dans le jeu des informations liées à la disparition de ses parents, la distinction entre le jeu et la réalité est de plus en plus difficile à faire…Et Paranoia peut alors réellement commencer…

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.

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