Angélique
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'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES
'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESS
'THE KING OF EUROPEAN NOIR' LA REPUBBLICA, ITALY
'IT'S NO WONDER THAT GUILLAUME MUSSO IS ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST LOVED, BESTSELLING AUTHORS' HARLAN COBEN
EVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . .
PARIS, CHRISTMAS. Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl reveals herself to be a volunteer who has come to play the cello for patients. When she finds out Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take charge of a very special case.
Mathias agrees to help her, sending them both headfirst into a deadly chain of events. And at the centre of it all, a woman named Angélique, whose intentions may not be all they seem . . .
Feverous, surprising and uplifting, Musso's newest novel is a labyrinth of emotions where nothing is certain from one page to the next.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
French suspense novelist Musso (The Stranger in the Seine) sets this captivating if crowded mystery in Paris during Christmas 2021. Retired police officer Mathias Taillefer wakes up in a hospital after suffering a mild heart attack and finds 17-year-old Louise Collange at his bedside. Knowing that Mathias is a well-regarded investigator, Louise asks him to look into the death of her mother, retired prima ballerina Stella Petrenko. Louise does not believe her mother's death is an accident or a suicide, as the police suggest. Instead, she thinks it might be linked to a murder in Stella's apartment building. Musso unfolds the story along three parallel tracks: one follows Mathias and Louise as they spar, investigate, and learn more about the victims and each other; another follows an anonymous killer, offering up psychological justification for their crimes; a third examines the events leading up to Mathias's early retirement and the tragic love affair that has shaped his life. Everything converges in a finale that serves up jaw-dropping twists, even if it doesn't quite justify the whiplash of the book's convoluted structure. Still, Musso's fans will have a Gallic good time.
