Michel Bussi Books







Time is a Killer
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Summer, 1989. Corsica. Fifteen-year-old Clotilde is the sole survivor when her family's car plunges off a narrow road into a ravine. Twenty-seven years later she returns to the island with her husband and teenage daughter in an attempt to come to terms with her past. But then she receives a letter - from her mother, as if she were alive. It seems impossible. Clotilde watched her parents and her brother die that day in the ravine. She has lived with their ghosts ever since. But then who sent this letter - and why?
BEFORE An icy-cold February morning. A man running along a remote clifftop path. A woman standing on the cliff's edge. A red scarf on the ground between them. AFTER The man is alone - paralysed by fear. The woman is on the beach below - dead. The red scarf is now perfectly - and impossibly - arranged around the woman's broken neck. A handful of seconds. Two lives colliding. WHAT HAPPENED?
The Other Mother
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
A HEART-STOPPING, VISCERAL THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE KILLER TWIST. A child claims his mother is an imposter - but only one person believes him.
Black water lilies
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
'Ends with one of the most reverberating shocks in modern crime fiction' Sunday Times This is the story of a mystery, of thirteen days that begin with one murder and end with another. Jérôme Morval, a man whose passion for art was matched only by his passion for women, has been found dead in the stream that runs through the gardens at Giverny, where Monet did his famous paintings. In Jérôme's pocket is a postcard of Monet's Water Lilies with the words: Eleven years old. Happy Birthday. Entangled in the mystery are three women: a young painting prodigy, the seductive village schoolteacher and an old widow who watches over the village from a mill by the stream. All three of them share a secret. But what do they know about the discovery of Jérôme Morval's corpse? And what is the connection to the mysterious Black Water Lilies, a rumoured masterpiece by Monet that has never been found... 'This elegant crime mystery shimmers as delicately as the paintings of Claude Monet that lie at its heart . . . A bestseller in France, it is a dazzling, unexpected and haunting masterpiece' Daily Mail 'An enchanting tale that kept me absolutely hooked as Bussi cleverly breaks all the perceived rules of plotting in a story containing riddles within riddles . . . stunning' Daily Express
The Red Notebook
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
THE NEW THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE KILLER TWISTA breathlessly pacey crime story centred around one of the hottest issues of our age: the human cost of migration
Hailed as "a novel so extraordinary that it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the very first time" (Sunday Times, UK), a near-million copy bestseller in Europe--centered on a tragic plane crash in the Alps and the mystery surrounding its only survivor, an infant girl. A night flight from Istanbul bound for Paris, filled with 169 holiday travelers, plummets into the Swiss Alps. The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl--thrown from the plane onto the snowy mountainside before fire rages through the aircraft. But two infants were on board. Is the miracle baby Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Both families step forward to claim the child--one poor, one powerful, wealthy, and dangerous. Filled with delicious twists and riveting psychological suspense, After the Crash is an electrifying story of a two-decade mystery, secret love, and murder--perfect for the readers who swarmed to Stieg Larsson, Gone Girl, and The Girl on the Train.
Don't Let Go
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A wealthy Parisian family vacations on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, but their tranquil retreat is cut short when one family member vanishes and another is suspected of her murder.
Lyse-Rose czy Emilie? Kim jest jedyna ocalała z katastrofy lotniczej osoba, trzymiesięczne niemowlę? Dwie rodziny - biedna i bogata - walczą o opiekę nad dziewczynką, którą media ochrzciły Ważką. Osiemnaście lat po katastrofie pewnemu prywatnemu detektywowi wydaje się, że znalazł rozwiązanie zagadki. Pada jednak ofiarą morderstwa, zostawiając po sobie jedynie dziennik zawierający szczegóły przeprowadzonego śledztwa. Zostajemy wciągnięci w zapierający dech w piersiach pościg prowadzący od paryskiej dzielnicy Butte- aux-Cailles aż po Dieppe, od Val-de-Marne po zbocza jurajskiej Mont Terrible, do chwili, aż wszystko stanie się jasne. Czyżby przypadki i zbiegi okoliczności były tylko odpryskami przeznaczenia? A może od samego początku ktoś manipuluje aktorami tego dramatu?
Nic nie jest tak ulotne jak pamięć dziecka. Gdy trzyipółletni Malone twierdzi, że jego mama nie jest jego prawdziwą mamą, choć wydaje się to niemożliwe, psycholog dziecięcy Vasile wierzy mu. Jako jedyny Musi działać szybko. Odkryć prawdę. Szukać pomocy. Wspomnienia Malone'a zaczynają się już bowiem zacierać, zachowane w okruchach pamięci i rozmowach, jakie chłopczyk prowadzi z Gutim, swoją pluszową maskotką. Rozpoczyna się odliczanie. Aż do chwili, gdy wszystko się zmieni. Do chwili, gdy machina pójdzie w ruch i maski opadną. Kim jest Malone? Michel Bussi najpoczytniejszy francuski autor kryminałów ponad 2,5 miliona sprzedanych egzemplarzy we Francji wydania w 29 językach Michel Bussi po mistrzowsku łączy manipulację, emocje i napięcie. Po polsku ukazały się już cztery jego książki, wielokrotnie nagradzane: Czarne nenufary, Samolot bez niej, Nie puszczaj mojej dłoni, Nigdy nie zapomnieć. W 2015 roku Bussi znalazł się na trzecim miejscu rankingu najbardziej poczytnych pisarzy francuskich dziennika Le Figaro.