Little late but...

Happy 2016 to all my readers! As the title of this post says, a little late but being flat out with a cold will do that to a girl. There are many things to look forward to this year including Eric Larson at TKE (well Rowland Hall) 7 p.m. Monday April 18th. You'll need tickets to get in but you get those with a copy of Dead Wake in paperback, easy peasy.

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After The Crash, Michel Bussi

‘Miracle on Mt. Terrible’

That was the headline after a plane crash in the Jura mountains in 1980. One survivor, a baby girl, thrown clear of the wreckage. Two families come forward to claim her, they both had grandchildren on the flight. The De Carvilles are moneyed and lawyered up to their perfectly manicured eyeballs. Of course their granddaughter Lyse-Rose survived the crash. The less well-off Vitrals don’t agree because the baby is their granddaughter Emilie. Of course DNA could’ve solved the mystery, if DNA had been around in the eighties.

The ensuing court case puts both families under the microscope and although one family gets Lylie (a hybrid of Lyse-Rose and Emilie) neither walks away intact.

Eighteen years later former mercenary turned PI, Crėdule Grand-Duc is about to mark his crushing failure to establish Lylie Vitral’s true identity with a bullet in the head. Then he has an epiphany, makes a phone call and hours later he is dead, the only clues to who killed him written inside the journal he sent to Lylie and she has vanished. It falls to Lylie’s brother Marc to follow the trail and unmask Grand-Duc’s killer.