CRITIQUE – Three crimes are committed in heavenly places. The police officer leading the investigation is closely concerned by these assassinations. The bestselling author, master of illusion, has struck again.
Michel Bussi's new title is inspired by a poem by Aimé Césaire, New Goodness: “There is no question of handing over the world to the dawn assassins.” However, the setting is not Martinique where Césaire was mayor of Fort-de-France for more than half a century, but its neighbor, Guadeloupe.
First pages: Sunday April 7, 2024, Jacob Santamaria, a real estate magnate, one of the richest people in the West Indies, 60 years old, is found murdered at dawn, a diving harpoon stuck in his chest. It will be the same for Audrey Colombel, a young adventurer, and Chaïma Sadji, a 27-year-old party girl, who is waiting for her lover contacted on the Badoo site; they will be found in heavenly places on the island – a waterfall, a mangrove and a dream beach. Each time, the crime is accompanied by a staging, a ritual. Thus the heavy body of Jacob Santamaria was lifted and mounted to the top of the slave steps, a place of memory, with a map: «Anatole…
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