Time is a Killer: From the bestselling author of After the Crash

by Michel Bussi

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'One of France's most ingenious crime writers' SUNDAY TIMES

'Bussi breaks every rule in the book' JOAN SMITH

It is summer 1989 and fifteen-year-old Clotilde is on holiday with her parents in Corsica. On a twisty mountain road, their car comes off at a curve and plunges into a ravine. Only Clotilde survives.

Twenty-seven years later, she returns to Corsica with her husband and their sulky teenage daughter. Clotilde wants the trip to do two things - to help exorcise her past, and to build a bridge between her and her daughter. But in the very place where she spent that summer all those years ago, she receives a letter. From her mother. As if she were still alive.

As fragments of memory come back, Clotilde begins to question the past. And yet it all seems impossible - she saw the corpses of her mother, her father, her brother. She has lived with their ghosts. But then who sent this letter - and why?

'Combines an extraordinarily inventive plot with characters haunted by long ago events' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH

  • ISBN10 1474606679
  • ISBN13 9781474606677
  • Publish Date 5 April 2018
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 29 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 464
  • Language English