With his new novel, Michel Bussi takes us both into a story of a serial killer and into the social, historical and political realities of the French West Indies. Read the first chapter.
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Journalist at the Culture department
By Jean-Marie WynantsPublished on 7/11/2024 at 6:12 p.m.
Reading time: 3 min
Assassins of the DawnMichel Bussi, Presses de la Cité, 382 p., €22.90, ebook €15.99
GA trained eographer, Michel Bussi has forgotten nothing about his first profession, becoming one of the most prolific authors of French crime fiction and thrillers. He excels in showing us the most improbable places but also in using his knowledge to combine geography, sociology, economics and politics around a territory. For a bit, one could also believe that he was born and lived in Guadeloupe, as his latest book, Assassins of the Dawntakes us to the heart of life in this French territory in the middle of the Caribbean. However, this is not the case. He just had the opportunity to stay a few days in the region and discover an ideal breeding ground for a new novel.
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