Michel Bussi Libros

'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

In the town of Yport, during a run along Europe’s tallest cliff, Jamal notices a red scarf hanging on a fence. Then he sees the woman, her dress torn, her back to the void, her eyes fixed on his own. Jamal holds the scarf out to her like a buoy. A few seconds later, the stranger’s lifeless body is found lying on the icy pebbles of the empty beach below. Around her neck, the red scarf. Everyone thinks he pushed her. He only wanted to save her. That’s Jamal’s version. Do you believe it?

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.

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?

Michel Bussi is one of France's most ingenious crime writers... has plenty of twists and turns in store in this fast-moving novel about a long-planned act of revenge Joan Smith SUNDAY TIMES 20170514

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.

La suite tant attendue de la série événement de Michel Bussi ! Envers et contre l'ordre établi, Alixe et Zyzo partent à la reconquête de Versailles...L'impensable est arrivé ! Les explorateurs de la deuxième expédition du Solario ont fait une découverte incroyable : alors que l'on pensait tous les adultes disparus, l'un d'eux, Yak, a survécu au passage du nuage toxique. Mais il s'est isolé, et tente vainement d'oublier la tragédie. C'est compter sans Modélia et Ogénor qui sont prêts à tout pour asseoir leur domination sur Versailles et Paris... Qui osera leur tenir tête ? ​De leur côté, Alixe et Zyzo, déterminés à ne pas reproduire les erreurs du passé, cherchent des réponses dans les vestiges de l'ancien monde. Pourront-ils accepter les secrets qu'ils vont découvrir ? Car dévoiler la vérité pour sauver leur nouvelle société peut tout aussi bien la bouleverser...

Vážka, Mama klame, Čierne lekná. Šarmantné a fascinujúce detektívky od jedného z najpredávanejších francúzskych autorov Michela Bussiho. Trojnásobný zážitok plný strhujúcich momentov, hádaniek a nečakaných zvratov v štýlovom balení.

La Guadeloupe, une île paradisiaque... terre de tous les dangersSous le soleil des Caraïbes, trois touristes sont retrouvés assassinés, un harpon de plongée planté en plein cœur. Trois meurtres commis à l'aube, accompagnés d'une mise en scène macabre et glaçante. Pourtant, aucun lien n'unit les victimes, qui séjournaient pour la première fois dans l'île...Plus étonnant encore, un étrange vieillard prédit à chaque fois les crimes dans leurs plus imprévisibles détails. Magie noire ou machination diabolique ?S'engage alors pour le commandant Valéric Kancel et ses deux adjoints une course contre la montre, dans une île au bord du chaos. Jusqu'où les entraînera leur enquête vertigineuse ?Avec ce pur thriller, Michel Bussi nous plonge dans les secrets passés de la Guadeloupe. Et nous offre un voyage aussi intense que dépaysant.Maître de l'illusion et de la manipulation, Michel Bussi est l'un des auteurs préférés des Français, et le plus adapté à la télévision et en bandes dessinées.