Tous les livres de K. L. Slater
Thirteen years ago someone did something very bad to Anna. Now it’s her turn to get even …
Anna lives a solitary existence, taking solace in order and routine. Her only friend is the lonely old lady next door. She doesn’t like to let people to get too close – she knows how much damage they can do.
Then one ordinary day Anna witnesses a devastating road accident and recognises the driver as Carla, the woman who ruined her life all those years ago. Now it’s Anna’s chance to set things straight but her revenge needs to be executed carefully …
First she needs to get to know Liam, the man injured in the accident. She needs to follow the police investigation. She needs to watch Carla from the shadows…
But as Anna’s obsession with Carla escalates, her own secrets start to unravel. Is Carla really dangerous or does Anna need to worry about someone far closer to home?
Ne la quittez pas des yeux ...
Il a suffi d'un instant pour que la petite Evie disparaisse. Un bref instant d'inattention. Depuis maintenant trois ans que la police la cherche, rien, pas la moindre piste. La fillette s'est évaporée.
Une inconnue gît, paralysée, sur un lit d'hôpital. Les médecins pensent qu'elle ne sortira jamais du coma et s'apprêtent à la débrancher. Mais Toni s'accroche à l'espoir de retrouver sa fille. Pour la sauver, elle doit réaliser l'impossible : communiquer.
Jusqu'où iriez-vous pour protéger votre famille ?
Depuis la mort de sa femme, Ben fait de son mieux pour élever ses enfants, grâce à l'aide précieuse de sa mère. La vie suit paisiblement son cours jusqu'au jour où il rencontre Amber. Tout le monde pense que c'est la femme qu'il attendait depuis longtemps, mais Judi n'est pas de cet avis... Ben a du mal à comprendre la méfiance de sa mère à l'égard de sa nouvelle compagne. Amber, quant à elle, ne tient pas à vivre sous le même toit que sa belle-mère. Et pour cause : en fouillant dans son passé, Judi se rend compte que la jeune femme a menti sur toute la ligne et qu'elle cache de sombres secrets. Aveuglé par ce nouvel amour, Ben n'a-t-il pas fait entrer le loup dans la bergerie ?
Un thriller psychologique glaçant et addictif, qui vous tiendra en haleine jusqu'à la dernière page.
« Sans conteste l'un des meilleurs thrillers que j'aie jamais lus ! » - Angela Marsons
« Ce roman machiavélique, sous haute tension, vous réserve un twist final qui vous laissera sans voix. » - All About Books
« Une histoire captivante qui vous réserve un dénouement à couper le souffle. » - By the Letter
« Voilà un livre que vous ne lâcherez pas avant d'en avoir le cœur net. » - Beckie Bookworm
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How far would you go to protect your family?
Single dad Ben is doing his best to raise his children alone, with the help of his devoted mother Judi. Life isn’t easy, but Judi’s family means everything to her and together, they manage.
Then Ben meets Amber. Everyone thinks this is a perfect match for Ben but Judi isn’t sure … there’s just something about Amber that doesn’t add up.
Ben can’t see why his mother dislikes his new girlfriend. And Amber doesn’t want Judi anywhere near her new family. Amber just wants Ben and the children.
The further Judi delves into Amber’s personal life, the closer she gets to shocking secrets that could change everything. And Judi must make a decision that could lead to the most disastrous consequences.
Quand Billie, huit ans, disparaît dans la forêt alors qu’il était en train de jouer au cerf-volant avec sa sœur, tous les habitants de Newstead prennent part aux recherches, et le village est sous le choc lorsqu’on retrouve son corps, deux jours plus tard.
Seize ans après le drame, Rose, qui n’a jamais pu se résoudre à quitter la maison de son enfance, mène une vie en sourdine, toujours accablée par la culpabilité : si elle ne l’avait pas quitté des yeux, son petit frère serait encore en vie.
Lorsque son voisin et ami de longue date fait un malaise, Rose vole à son secours. Après la bouleversante découverte qu’elle va faire, elle n’a plus qu’une certitude : elle est en danger de mort.
Everyone has a secret in their past.
Everyone pretends to be something they’re not.
But someone is always watching… and that someone is closer than you think.
Holly returns to her home town after some time away – she has been through something terrible and now she needs a safe haven in which to recover, and to plan the rest of her life. She finds a room in a quiet and leafy suburban street, in the home of Cora Barrett.
David lives next door to Cora Barrett and he sees everything that happens on Baker Crescent. David stays at home, and he watches: he likes to feel safe and he doesn’t like to leave the house. He wants to keep his friends and neighbours safe too. So he observes them, and he records every tiny detail of their lives, just in case the information is ever needed.
Both lonely and vulnerable, Holly and David gradually begin to strike up a friendship. But Holly can’t shake the feeling that someone from her past might have tracked her down. And David is always watching… But uncovering the secret that could save his new friend and neighbour could be the one thing that destroys him.
You think you can trust the ones you love most.
But what if one secret could make you question everything?
Every day, a woman like Louise passes you in the street: elegant, confident, determined. But underneath, she’s struggling.
She doesn’t know her sister, Alice, has been scared of leaving the house since their mother died.
She doesn’t know when Alice babysits her little boy, Archie, he sometimes sees things he shouldn’t.
She doesn’t know Archie has a secret.
A secret that could send cracks through the heart of Louise’s carefully constructed life...
The most gripping psychological thriller you’ll read this year from the Kindle top five bestselling author K.L. Slater. If you love The Girl on the Train or Gone Girl, you’ll be absolutely hooked.
This morning, I was packing up lunches, ironing, putting on the laundry I should have done last night. Now my precious daughter is accused of murder.
When ten-year-old cousins Maddy and Brianna are arrested for a terrible crime, Maddy’s mother Juliet cannot believe it. How could her bright, joyful daughter be capable of such a thing?
As the small village community recoils in horror, the pressure of the tragedy blows Juliet and her sister’s lives apart. And things get even worse when their daughters retreat into a self-imposed silence. Can anyone reach Maddy and discover the truth before her fate is sealed?
Juliet is crushed. Nothing will ever be the same for her darling girl. But she knows that to find out what really happened that day, she and her sister must unlock the secrets of their own terrible past, a past they swore never to speak about again …
The most unputdownable psychological thriller you’ll read this year from the bestselling author K.L. Slater. If you love The Wife Between Us or Gone Girl, you’ll be totally hooked on The Silent Ones.
This morning, my daughter sat right here, munching her breakfast, too excited to finish it. Now, she is missing.
The day after her ninth birthday, Lucie and Blake Sullivan agree, for the very first time, to let their daughter, Grace, make the four-minute walk back home alone from a friend’s house just down the street.
They joke with friends about hiding behind bushes to ensure she is safe. But the joke turns sour when Grace does not appear.
Despite the best efforts of the police and local community, Grace seems to have vanished into thin air. With hope fading fast, Lucie knows she can rely on her husband to support her through such dark times. That is until the day she makes a shocking discovery, hidden in Blake’s desk, and suddenly she begins to doubt everything she knew about the man she married.
But Lucie harbours a terrible secret of her own. One that she has never shared with anyone, even Blake …
And as the search for Grace reaches fever pitch, Lucie receives a terrifying message. If she is ever to see Grace again, Lucie has no choice but to face the past she tried hard to bury forever. And she must do it alone.
The most gripping psychological thriller you’ll read this year from the bestselling author K.L. Slater.
I know my daughter better than I know myself and if there’s one thing I know for sure at this moment: it's that Maisie is not ok.
My ex-husband Shaun and I are still friends.
We would do anything for our beautiful little girl, Maisie.
But now Shaun has moved in with Joanne and suddenly, Maisie has a brand new family.
And there’s something not quite right about it…I know Joanne isn’t everything she says she is. Yet no-one will listen.
I need to discover what she’s hiding.
Because if I don’t, my daughter will be in terrible danger.
The most gripping psychological thriller you’ll read this year from the Kindle top five bestselling author K.L. Slater. If you love The Girl on the Train or Gone Girl, you’ll be absolutely hooked.
‘I keep feeling like I’m being watched – dropping the boys off at school, choosing wine at the supermarket – but when I turn around there’s nobody there…’
When single mother Darcy’s son falls from a rope bridge at a local playground, life stands still. She clutches his small, limp body, frozen, until a pair of strong hands push her aside, and she watches as George, a local doctor, saves her son’s life.
George is a single parent too, and with his twinkling hazel eyes, easy charm, and lack of wedding band is almost too good to be true, but coffee becomes lunch, lunch becomes dinner, and soon they can’t go an evening without seeing each other. When he invites her to move into his beautiful home with its sprawling garden for her boys, Darcy doesn’t hesitate.
But as Darcy is settling in, she receives a bunch of flowers with a chilling message. George says they’re from an obsessed ex-girlfriend, Opal, and days later Opal turns up at Darcy’s son’s football match. She claims to have shocking information that could threaten George’s custody of his daughter.
Darcy doesn’t know who to trust, but she’s starting to suspect that, whatever the truth, she might have put her beloved boys into terrible danger…
Il y a des propositions qui ne se refusent pas.
Freya vient de perdre son mari et sa maison. Elle a besoin d’un toit de toute urgence, pour elle et sa fille de cinq ans. La chance lui sourit le jour où elle rencontre le charismatique Dr Marsden, qui cherche à louer un appartement dans un quartier cossu de Londres pour un loyer dérisoire. Mais pas à n’importe qui : les nouveaux locataires devront se faire accepter des autres résidents. Quand Freya emménage à Adder House, quelque chose lui dit que c’est trop beau pour être vrai...
Derrière sa porte fermée à double tour, elle a l’impression qu’on épie ses moindres faits et gestes. Elle jurerait qu’on s’introduit chez elle en son absence. Est-ce vraiment le hasard qui l’a conduite ici ? On prétend que la précédente locataire n’a pas tenu plus de huit mois, et qu’elle a mis fin à ses jours...
« La menace couve d’un bout à l’autre de ce roman captivant. » – Rachel Read It
« Une lecture addictive, et l’atmosphère inquiétante de Adder House n’y est pas pour rien. » – It’s All About Books
« Sombre, fascinant et bien ficelé : j’ai adoré. » – She Just Love Books
You shared a secret with the wrong person.
Janey Markham is thrilled to be moving with her family to Buckingham Crescent, the smartest address in a desirable suburban town.
Worried she’ll be excluded by the glossy local mothers, Janey is thrilled when she meets Tanya, the kind of woman she has always looked up to. Tanya takes Janey under her wing, and her teenage daughter Angel is amazing with Janey’s little boy. As Janey and Tanya grow closer, Janey feels she can finally leave her troubled past behind.
But then everything changes…
In a weak moment over a bottle of wine, Janey finds herself telling Tanya her most shocking secret. Why wouldn’t she trust her new friend?
The following day, Janey sees Angel, with a man old enough to be her father, pushing someone into a car. The next day a body is found and police appeal for witnesses – and share a picture of the same car…
When Janey tells Tanya she is going to the police, Tanya turns threatening. She’ll stop at nothing to defend Angel, even if her daughter is guilty. If Janey says anything, Tanya will make sure that her dark secret gets out.
Janey faces an impossible choice. Stay quiet about what she saw that terrible day. Or speak up, and destroy the family she has worked so hard to protect…
