The Stranger in the Seine
From the No.1 International Thriller Sensation
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES
'ONE OF THE GREAT THRILLER WRITERS OF OUR AGE' DAILY EXPRESS
'IT'S NO WONDER THAT GUILLAUME MUSSO IS ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST LOVED, BESTSELLING AUTHORS' HARLAN COBEN
PARIS, a misty night a few days before Christmas: a young woman is saved from the waters of the Seine. Unable to remember her name or how she ended up in the river, she is taken to the hospital - only to disappear into thin air.
DNA testing reveals the mysterious woman to be famous pianist Milena Bergman - but that cannot be. Milena died in a plane crash over a year ago. As police captain Roxane begins to investigate, she is plunged deep into an impossible enigma . . .
Is it possible to be alive and dead at the same time?
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Musso (The Secret Life of Writers) combines a baffling mystery with a memorable lead in this superior thriller. Roxane Montchrestien, longtime member of a French police brigade that hunts down the country's most wanted, attempts to resign after she gets caught up in a street protest that turns violent. Instead, she's transferred to the Bureau of Unconventional Affairs, an X-Files-esque division established "to investigate unusual cases that the judicial police couldn't find any rational explanations for." Soon afterward, a naked, amnesia-stricken woman is found in the Seine, and she asks for Roxane's predecessor before slipping away from the hospital where she's been recuperating. The plot thickens when Roxane learns that a DNA sample from the unidentified woman matches pianist Milena Bergman, who died a year earlier in a plane crash. Roxane teams up with Milena's fiancé to ferret out the truth, uncovering a web of deceit in the process. Musso delivers a satisfying resolution to the puzzle she constructs, and Roxane's inner conflicts about staying on the force in a time of social upheaval lend welcome emotional depth. Devotees of Christopher Fowler's Peculiar Crimes Unit series will be enthralled.
