Showing results by author "Michel Bussi" in Crime Thrillers

Giverny. During the day, the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his water lilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village. This is the story of 13 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.

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. Out of 169 passengers. 168 are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a newborn baby. But the identity of the child is unknown, and two families - one rich and affluent, and the other poor - step forward to claim her. So begins a private investigation that wil go on for the next 18 years.... The novel opens on the eve of the girl's 18th birthday.

I have several mothers. It's a bit complicated for me. Especially as they really don't like each other. There's even one who's going to die. Maybe it's a little bit my fault.... Maybe everything happened because of me. Because I can't remember which one is the real one. Malone, a child of four, starts to claim that his mother isn't his real mother. It seems impossible. His mother has birth certificates, photos of him as a child and even the paediatrician confirms this is her child.

Sixième jour de l'Armada 2008. Un marin est retrouvé poignardé au beau milieu des quais de Rouen ! Quel tueur invisible a pu commettre ce crime impossible ? Quel étrange pacte semble lier des matelots du monde entier ? De quels trésors enfouis dans les méandres de la Seine sont-ils à la recherche ? Une implacable machination... qui prend en otage huit millions de touristes, une course effrénée contre la montre avant la parade de la Seine.

Nella pensione Au Soleil Redouté, sull'isola di Hiva Oa, uno dei paradisi equatoriali della Polinesia francese sotto la guida del celebre romanziere Pierre-Yves François detto PYF, si svolge un laboratorio di scrittura al quale partecipano cinque aspiranti scrittrici. A un certo punto PYF sparisce e nella pensione si affaccia la morte sotto forma di un misterioso omicidio su cui ognuno indaga a modo suo, ma giungendo tutti a un’identica conclusione: l’assassino non può che essere uno di loro!

It is summer 1989, and 15-year-old Clotilde is on holiday with her parents in Corsica. On a twisty mountain road, their car comes off at a curve and plunges into a ravine. Only Clotilde survives. Twenty-seven years later, she returns to Corsica with her partner, Franck, and their sulky teenage daughter, Valentine. Clotilde wants to the trip to do two things - to help exorcise the ghosts of her past and to provide a bridge between her and her daughter, so that Valentine can begin to understand why her mother is the way she is.

¿QUÉ SE OCULTA EN GIVERNY, EL PUEBLO DE MONET? ¿QUÉ SABEN ESTAS MUJERES SOBRE EL CUERPO DE JÉRÔME? ¿Y CUÁL ES LA CONEXIÓN CON EL SUPUESTO CUADRO DE LOS NENÚFARES NEGROS DE MONET? Desde lo alto de su molino una anciana vigila el día a día del pueblo, los autobuses de los turistas…...