Dan Christensen
Archer Coe is a performing hypnotist with the stage name “The Mind’s Arrow.” When his nightly shows are over, he moonlights as a special consultant for the rich and powerful. His latest client is a woman who claims to know him but whom he swears he’s never met. Things take a strange turn for the worse when her husband ends up dead, and police suspect Archer of not just killing him, but also of being a sinister killer nicknamed “The Zipper.” Archer has no memory of any of this, but it’s making him doubt whether or not he’s got blood on his hands. Could the master of other people’s minds be losing his own ?
Archer Coe, master hypnotist, is back to performing by day and consulting for the rich and influential by night. Most of his cases are mundane—save his most recent, which ended in quite a few deaths—and that’s what Archer expects from his newest client, heiress Nicolette Hardy. Her mother’s untimely death has sent her father into a deep depression, and a self-proclaimed mystic, Jane Collins, has taken advantage of his grief by promising him an audience with his dead wife. Archer knows Jane, and he believes she’s a fraud. But he has trouble convincing Nicolette’s father, and as strange happenings unfold around him, Archer soon has trouble convincing himself. It’s clear Jane holds some power—but it’s also clear that Jane has no idea how much. Will Archer save Jane and the Hardys before her power becomes uncontrollable ? Or will this case be his final curtain ?
La Comédie Illustrée |
James Whitaker tient une librairie d’occasion dans la 4ème avenue. Un quartier plutôt moche où il ne fait pas bon se promener la nuit. Que vient donc y faire Sara, cette jeune femme d’allure fragile qui dissimule un pistolet dans son sac à dos ? Et qu’a-t-elle à voir avec ces deux voyous qui ont essayé de vendre à Whitaker un livre volé ? Tout cela aurait-il un rapport avec le drame qui a eu lieu un an plus tôt, lorsque la librairie a brûlé causant la mort de l’ancien propriétaire ? Dans ce récit très noir situé dans une ville imaginaire des Etats-Unis, on découvre l’autre visage de l’Amérique, un univers inquiétant où l’on n’est jamais sûr d’arriver vivant au bout de la piste.
Le Cycliste |
Un meurtre brutal a été commis dans le manoir du romancier d’horreur reclus George Harper. Les inspecteurs Liz Santa Cruz et Thomas Clay sont appelés sur les lieux pour élucider l’affaire, mais au fur et à mesure que leur enquête avance, ils commencent à réaliser que les légendes locales de fantômes vengeurs et de loups-garous sanguinaires ne sont peut-être pas de simples légendes après tout...
Los Angeles, present day. Henry Wade Johnson, the Paranormal criminal known as The Ogre, has just been released from prison. When one of his former accomplices, Rat Face, murders several police officers and vanishes with a cocaine shipment belonging to the city’s deadliest Paranormal crime lord, Henry Wade finds himself drawn back into the life he had sworn to leave behind.
Le récit très noir d’un combat de boxe truqué et la fable poétique d’un combat inégal entre un archer et un géant.
