Arriving so soon after the recent Barcelona-Dusseldorf sad plane disaster, this novel about the aftermath and consequences of an Airbus crash in mountains can prove unsettling, although it appeared in France a few years back and is in no way exploitative and already had been a worldwide bestseller prior to this year's tragedy. A baby miraculously survives the terrible accident but there were two babies of the same age onboard and it proves initially impossible to establish whose family she belongs to, one wealthy and the other working-class. Eighteen years later, the idiosyncatic private detective engaged to solve the mystery, after the court's ambiguous verdict, finally ventures across a vital clue, only to be mysteriously shot. Now a young girl, the surviving Lylie, and her brother (or is he?) are caught in a splendidly engineered race against time to establish once and for all her identity. A compulsive page-turner. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
'Riveting! Bussi spins psychological suspense at its finest with this consuming tale of one child, two families, and the dark secrets that define us all. Clear your schedule; this book is worth it!' - Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Crash & Burn and Find Her On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one rich, the other poor, step forward to claim her, sparking an investigation that will last for almost two decades. Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Eighteen years later, having failed to discover the truth, private detective Crédule Grand-Duc plans to take his own life, but not before placing an account of his investigation in the girl's hands. But, as he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger, he uncovers a secret that changes everything - then is killed before he can breathe a word of it to anyone . . .
