The most popular French secrets & lies books

These books run on things left unsaid. A hidden past, a double life or one small lie that grows shapes a family, a marriage or a whole town. The pleasure is in watching the truth work its way out, and in seeing who is still standing afterward. Only books in French are listed.

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Tous les vivants
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Tous les vivants

Jayne Anne Phillips

2013 · 2017 edition

600 pages

Stay alive
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Stay alive

Simon Kernick

2013 · 2015 edition

383 pages

Le fils
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Le fils

Jo Nesbø

2014 · 2017 edition

624 pages

Le renard et le loup
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Le renard et le loup

Marguerite Maillet, Joan Gregory

1996 · 2011 edition

28 pages

Le Président
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Le Président

Georges Simenon

1983 · 1998 edition

188 pages

Le Mensonge et le Suicide
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Le Mensonge et le Suicide

Eugen Drewermann, Jean-Pierre Bagot, René Simon

Published 1992

136 pages

Le week-end
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Le week-end

Charlotte Wood

2019 · 2021 edition

400 pages

LE MENDIANT
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LE MENDIANT

Claude Martingay, Philippe Dumas

Published 2003

34 pages

Le Contrat
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Le Contrat

Donald E. Westlake

Published 2000

340 pages

Beau ravage
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Beau ravage

Christopher Bollen

2017 · 2018 edition

544 pages