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Henry Lewis leaves school and heads toward his Aunt Jasmine's for lunch, but he can't resist the lure of the ice cream truck. When Henry fails to show, his Aunt has no choice but to dial 911.It's a warm springtime in Toms River, New Jersey, and as the school year comes to a close, young Henry Lewis has an irresistible urge to buy his first ice cream of the season. He would choose a strawberry and chocolate cone, naturally, and it would taste all the better for being prepared by nice old Mr. Smith from the ice cream truck. But when Henry disappears, the FBI has just forty-eight hours to find him alive and Henry's dad, Jim, decides he'll be the one to track his son down.

It is about an English-style detective novel.On 29 of October 2003, Ms. Carol Tompkins, an antique dealer, finds herself involved, for a strange twist of fate, in the murder of Sally Barnes, who was killed by a slit to her throat. Superintendent Baxter investigates the case, collecting countless clues about the victim and the people that were part of her life. Many are the leads to follow, and it is plausible that behind the murder there are financial interests connected to the sale of the Barnes’s villa, and especially to the disappearance of extremely valuable daggers, among which one that had belonged to Cleopatra. Carol finds herself being investigated, and is unaware of the killer’s motive, but she will strive to defend her innocence. Eventually, she will discover the truth that will render justice not only to the victim Sally, but also to her own life, wiping out the blanket of shadows and hypocrisy that wrapped it.

Le Grand Ski-lift : un gigantesque réseau de remontées mécaniques permettant aux skieurs d’évoluer dans un domaine qui couvre l’hémisphère boréal tout entier. Poussé par son besoin de renaissance, désirant oublier le Monde connu et les règles de la Tradition, Oskar Zerbi s’introduit illégalement dans ce circuit. Dans cette infinité de pistes et de sommets blancs, il est poursuivi par un mystérieux interlocuteur, et fait des rencontres étranges qui le renvoient aux bribes d’un passé oublié. Investi d’une dangereuse mission, il comprendra petit à petit la nature réelle de sa quête. Se dirigeant toujours vers le nord, il se réappropriera la connaissance de lui-même et de son passé, découvrant à quel point il est lié au Grand Ski-lift. Dans les terres désolées du Nord extrême, il accèdera enfin à la révélation ultime…