Michel Bussi, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. Hachette, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-30967-7
French crime author Bussi makes his English-language debut with an insightful thriller. A three-month-old girl, dubbed the Dragonfly by the media, is the sole survivor of a 1980 airline crash in the Jura Mountains at the Franco-Swiss border. The...
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Michel Bussi, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. Europa, $17 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-60945-453-1
In this uneven crime novel from Bussi (Time Is a Killer), vacationers Martial and Liane Bellion and their six-year-old daughter, Josapha, are lounging by the pool at Réunion Island’s Hotel Athena when Liane decides to retreat upstairs. An hour later,
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Michel Bussi, trans. from the French by Shaun Whiteside. Europa, $18 trade paper (528p) ISBN 978-1-60945-442-5
In this gripping noir from Bussi (After the Crash), Clotilde, husband Franck, and their 15-year-old daughter, Valentine, take a vacation in Corsica, where, 27 years earlier, Clotilde survived a car crash that killed her mother, father, and only...
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Frederic Duval, Michel Bussi, Didier Cassegrain, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin. Magnetic, $29.99 (140p) ISBN 978-1-951719-66-1
A gruesome murder shatters the peace in Claude Monet’s picturesque hometown of Giverny in this stylish if unsubtle graphic novel adaptation of Bussi’s crime novel. An elderly widow, a married schoolteacher, and a tween girl are all keeping secrets...
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Michel Bussi, trans. from the French by Sam Taylor. Europa, $18 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-60945-519-4
Why would precocious preschooler Malone Moulin insist that his parents weren’t his parents? School psychologist Vasily Dragonman brings that conundrum to the attention of Capt. Marianne Augresse, a Le Havre police officer, in this brilliantly twisty
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