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After The Crash by Michel Bussi (view source)
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This is an absolutely brilliant psychological thriller that makes you question everything you uncover about the story. Told largely through the eyes of a private eye hired to investigate the case, there are numerous subplots of murder, mystery and intrigue, not to mention broken hearts and lost souls, to add to the drama. This is the sort of story that couldn’t happen in the same way now, so the setting of the 80s is perfect, and gives a timeline over which Lylie can grow into an adult with questions of her own.
I devoured this book and knew from early on that I wouldn’t be able to put it down until Lylie’s true identity was revealed. The author is skilled at the art of cliff hangers and iI've never known so many in one book, but as the secondary stories were immensely interesting, I had to stick with them too rather than skip ahead until a thread was picked back up.
The translation is fantastic, to the extent that you often forget it wasn’t originally written in English. The language is often quite formal, in keeping with the findings of an investigation, but this is broken up by the younger voices of Lylie and Marc. Credule Grand-Duc is a wonderful narrator of other people’s lives, but his own life is also a story worth telling and as aspects emerge it starts to change the way in which you view his words.