Best French Detective 2015.
Little Malone lives with his dad and mom who love him, especially mom. She would do anything for him. But every night, when Malone goes to bed and the door closes behind his mother, there comes a time when his favorite stuffed toy named Guti tells him mysterious stories. His mother taught him to listen to Guti — but another mother. A real mom. Nobody pays attention to the words of the little boy that his mother is not his mother at all, only the child psychologist is surprised by the clarity and brightness of his stories. He will share his doubts with Police Commissioner Marianne Ogresse, whose experience and instinct will tell her that the case is indeed strange. But she has no time to deal with the tales of the little boy — the commissioner has a complicated case with an armed robbery, during which a couple of raiders were killed, and the rest fell through the ground. If she knew that the key to uncovering a loud robbery lies in an ephemeral childhood memory, in an old stuffed animal …
The new novel solidified Michel Bussy’s reputation as one of the best detectives in France. In 2015, «Until You Sleep» topped the lists of detective bestsellers, and Bussy himself became one of the three most successful writers in France in the same year. In his detective stories, one cannot find rivers of blood and heaps of atrocities, Bussy takes the reader with a sophisticated psychologism, completely non-straightforward plots and a romantic atmosphere of Normandy. His books are an addictive detective delight.
Michel Bussy is undoubtedly the brightest name in contemporary French fiction. To get ahead of such masters as Granger, Pennac, Gavalda, Vargas, you need to be a truly outstanding author.
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LLC «Publishing House Phantom Press», 2016
Translation: Elena Klokova
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