While you are awake

Best French Detective of 2015.
Little Malon lives with his dad and mom who love him, especially his mom. She will do anything for him. But every night when Malon goes to bed and the door closes behind his mom, there comes a time when his favorite plush toy named Guti tells him mysterious stories. Listening to Guti was taught to him by his mom - but a different mom. A real mom. No one pays attention to the little boy's words that his mom is not his mom at all, only the child psychologist is surprised by the clarity and vividness of his stories. He shares his doubts with the police commissioner Marianne Otress, whose experience and instincts suggest that the case is indeed strange. But she has no time to deal with the little boy's tales - the commissioner has a complicated case with an armed robbery, during which a couple of raiders were killed, and the rest of them fell through the ground. If she knew that the key to solving the high-profile robbery lies in an ephemeral childhood memory, in an old stuffed animal ...
The new novel solidified Michel Bussi's reputation as one of the best detective writers in France. In 2015, While You're Sleeping topped detective bestseller lists, and Bussi himself became one of the three most successful writers in France that same year. In his detectives do not find rivers of blood and piled cruelties, Bussy takes the reader sophisticated psychology, completely not straightforward plots and romantic atmosphere of Normandy. His books are a bit old-fashioned, but so addictive detective pleasure.

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Reading Bussi's books, one is always amazed at the accuracy with which he describes the place where the action develops. And no wonder, for Bussi himself lives in Normandy. His books are realistic and romantic at once, he is no stranger to social themes, but the engine of his unpredictable plots is always feelings. Despite the fact that the plots at Bussy is always very confusing, that he has several lines, he is never confused, In the final all will certainly line up in a logical and clear picture. His language is concise, and dialogues are rapid, and the manner of Bussy to tell his stories in very small chapters only adds to the books tension. Great detectives! Europe1

In less than two years, a modest geography teacher from provincial Rouen new star of the French novel. And it happened almost with complete silence of the press. No one almost did not write about the books Bussy, and suddenly he is on the eighth line in the bestseller lists according to Figaro. Undoubtedly, Michel Bussy is the brightest name in modern French fiction. To surpass such maestros as Grange, Pennac, Gavalda, Vargas, you need to be a truly remarkable author. Bibliobs

Lyon, the city's largest bookstore. New books by heavyweights in the detective genre have just been released - there are true pyramids of new detectives by Elizabeth George, Michael Connelly and John Grisham all around. Between the pyramids there is a long, all the way to the corner of the store, where Michelle Bussi is sitting modestly and signing her new book to the readers. When asked where such popularity comes from, Bussy only smiles and says: "Nothing else but word of mouth can explain it". Over the past two years, this modest professor of geography from provincial Rouen has literally exploded the book market in France. Literally everyone reads him, and everyone likes him too - and this despite his simple style, his somewhat naive presentation, and his blatant cinematography. The irony of Bussy's current success is that for many years he received humiliating rejections from publishers again and again, dozens of them. But the first book he published became a national bestseller. 24 heures