After the Crash
A Novel
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3.9 • 46 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying,” this French thriller follows the a mystery surrounding the sole survivor of a plane crash (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).
Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. Of the 169 passengers, all but one perish.
The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl—thrown from the airliner before fire consumes the cabin. But two infants were on board. Is “the Miracle Child of Mont Terri” Lyse-Rose or Emilie? The families of both girls step forward to claim the child. The Vitrals live a simple life, selling snacks from a van on the beaches of northern France. In contrast, the de Carvilles, who amassed a fortune in the oil business, are powerful—and dangerous.
Eighteen years later, a private detective tasked with solving the mystery of the girl known as “Lylie” is on the verge of giving up. As he contemplates taking his own life, Crédule Grand-Duc suddenly discovers a secret hidden in plain view. Will he live to tell it?
Meanwhile, Lylie, now a beautiful university student, entrusts a secret notebook into the hands of Marc, the brooding young man who loves her, and then vanishes. After Marc reads the notebook's contents, he embarks on a frantic search for Lylie.
But he is not the only one looking for her.
“Riveting! Bussi spins psychological suspense at its finest with this consuming tale.” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crash & Burn
“A novel so extraordinary that it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the very first time.” —Sunday Times (UK)
Customer Reviews
Good book
The story was pretty good, keeps you guessing to the end, has interesting characters...giving it a 3 bc i found a few errors such as the judge meeting on the case in January 1980, but the babies were in September 1980, so the case wouldve had to be in 1981 not 1980
Author has way with words. Sadly this book doesn’t work.
Storyline was a great idea. It was stretched beyond any believable narrative by impossible scenarios, time, sequences, distances, relationships.