The 3 best books by Michel Bussi

Master of the psychological thriller, Michel Bussi exhibits his characters faced with the most unexpected suspense. Crimes that can end up finding a justification between the Machiavellian and the existential. Changes of perspective on the fact of the murder itself, or surprising visions of love and loss that awaken disturbing shadows about the future and the past of its protagonists.

something like a Victor of the Tree to the French With that notion of suspense plots as something far beyond the case at hand. Making the ominous more humane does not have to have a purpose of justifying the crime. It is a matter of remembering that we are human and nothing human is alien to us.

When Bussi does not surprise us from his very particular noir genre, he invites us to discover unimaginable tensions in the mundane. Addressing with surprising realism everything that concerns us as beings exposed to the harshest weather, where the soul freezes.

So if you want to discover crime novels with a different touch, such as a sophisticated menu, don't miss out on these recommendations...

Top 3 recommended novels by Michel Bussi

Black water lilies

Monet's impressionism makes landscapes reduced to details tremble, like his series of water lilies. Brushstrokes with a point of estrangement, of transformation. Michel Bussi extends the doubt of Monet's creative gift to all the gardens of Giverny, from where he could take the colorful imagery of him with the strange shadows of him.

From the top of her mill, an old woman watches over the day-to-day life of the town, the tourist buses… silhouettes and lives that pass by. Two women in particular stand out: one has eyes the color of water lilies and dreams of love and escape; the other, eleven years old, only lives obsessed for and by painting. Two women who are going to meet in the heart of a hurricane, because in Giverny, Monet's town, everyone is an enigma and each soul keeps its own secret... and several dramas will arrive to dilute the illusions in the rain and reopen old poorly healed wounds.

This is a thirteen-day story that begins with one murder and ends with another. Jérôme Morval, a man whose passion for art is second only to his passion for women, has been found dead in the stream that runs through the gardens. In his pocket they find a postcard of Monet's Water Lilies with the following words written on it: "Eleven years, congratulations!"

Black water lilies, Bussi

never forget it

Accidents do not exist in the eyes of the summary justice of others. Coincidences only happen when they break out in the worst of situations. That at least is what hangs over the protagonist of this story.

Jamal runs fast, very fast. He has trained hard so that his prosthetic leg does not interfere with his life. But not even a fighting spirit like his will be able to prevent an overwhelming event. It happens when you least expect it, during a vacation on the Normandy coast.

When he goes for a run along one of Yport's steep itineraries, he is surprised by an unimaginable situation: he finds an extraordinarily beautiful girl about to jump off a cliff. Jamal fears that if she takes one more step, she will throw herself over the edge. As a final attempt, he holds out a red scarf for her to hold on to. But everything is useless. Shortly after, the police find the body of the unknown woman on the beach. He wears the red scarf around her neck and shows signs of sexual abuse.

Never forget it, Bussi

Maybe I dreamed too much

Daring with a plot at the antipodes of the usual repertoire is very risky. But the "different" stories only come from disruptive creators like Michel Bussi. A typical love story has its recognizable patterns in gazillion authors. The point is, as a reader, to dare in the same way to a "love" story that breaks with the usual tonic to a disturbing vision such as lost loves or never forgotten touch.

Nathy, a beautiful stewardess in her fifties, leads a quiet life with her husband Olivier in a suburb of Paris. One day Nathy goes to the airport to catch a flight to Montreal and on the way she notices something really unusual: her schedule is strangely similar to twenty years ago. Same destinations on the same dates. Same crew.

The group The Cure is also on the plane, like in 1999 at the moment when a stranger changed his whole life. It was on this same flight that Nathy fell under the spell of Ylian, a passionate and promising young musician who was touring with The Cure.

Nathy married, Ylian free as the wind. Everything separates them. However, an unknown force pulls them towards each other. In four locations, Montreal, San Diego, Barcelona and Jakarta, a game of mirrors takes place between 1999 and 2019, Maybe I Dreamed Too Much unfolds a virtuoso mix of passion and suspense.

Maybe I dreamed too much, Bussi
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