Paru en 1871, Saint Louis et son temps d'Henri Wallon est une belle œuvre de documentation : reprenant tous les grands récits de l'époque du roi et leurs analyses, Wallon nous conte la vie du Saint. Croisades, guerres contre l'Angleterre, équilibre entre les papes et Frédéric II, développement social, consolidation du pouvoir central, Louis IX est un grand politique dans la lignée de son grand-père Philippe Auguste.

In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona. For seven days and nichts, no one knows his whereabouts... His story begins when he meets the mysterious Marina, the daughter of a reclusive painter. She takes him to a graveyard where they witness a macabre ritual. On the last Sunday of every month, a woman shrouded in black walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the emblem of a black butterfly... When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that takes them to the heart of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona. Beneath the streets a dark secret lies waiting...

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he''s done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesn''t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. But this is not his story. As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts. Lavender, Ansel''s mother, is a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation. Hazel, twin sister to his wife, is forced to watch helplessly as the relationship threatens to devour them all. And Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, is devoted to bringing bad men to justice but struggling to see her own life clearly. This is the story of the women left behind. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes On An Execution unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our cultural obsession with crime stories, and asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the minds of violent men.