Time is a killer

'One of France's most ingenious crime writers' SUNDAY TIMES'Bussi breaks every rule in the book' JOAN SMITHIt 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