Chapters (84)
- Dedication
- Time is a Killer
- Contents
- Map
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- Twenty-seven years later …
- IRevellata
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- Twenty-seven years later
- Acknowledgements
- AFTER THE CRASH
- BLACK WATER LILIES
- DON’T LET GO
- About the Author
- Also by Michel Bussi
- More on W&N
- Copyright
Then Liane disappears. Despite his protestations of innocence, the police view Martial as their prime suspect. Helicopters scan the island, racial tensions surface, and bodies are found.
Is Martial really his wife’s killer? And if he isn’t, why does he appear to be so guilty?
About the Author
Michel Bussi is the author of the bestsellers After the Crash and Black Water Lilies, both of which were Waterstones Thriller of the Month. In France, where he has published eleven novels, he is the second bestselling author overall, and he has won over sixteen literary awards. When not writing fiction, he is a Professor of Geography at the University of Rouen.
Also by Michel Bussi
After the Crash
Black Water Lilies
Don’t Let Go
More on W&N
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Copyright
A Weidenfeld & Nicolson ebook
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
First published in French as Le temps est assassin by Presses de la Cité, a department of Place des Editeurs, Paris.
This ebook first published in 2018 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Copyright © Michel Bussi and Presses de la Cité, a department of Place des Editeurs, 2016
English translation copyright © Shaun Whiteside 2018
The rights of Michel Bussi and Shaun Whiteside to be identified as the author and translator of this work, respectively, has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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