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Michel Bussi,Shaun Whiteside | 368 pages | 30 Jun 2016 | Orion Publishing Co | 9781474601740 | English | London, United Kingdom Book review: Black Water Lilies

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Readers who have treaded carefully along the roads of Giverny with this story following every clue may be disappointed with the virtual abandonment of the police procedural aspects of the story in the final section where the novelist takes off on something of a supernatural excursion. In fairness to Bussi, the book is framed from the beginning as something other than a straightforward crime story. The macabre and mysterious are suggested as keynotes in the novel from the start as we are given a sense of it being some kind of intricate fable. Lurking in the shadows is an old woman who seems to be pulling the strings of the characters from the confines of her spooky house overlooking the village. The best Black Water-Lilies, health, entertainment and Black Water-Lilies content from Black Water-Lilies irishexaminer. And the difference is . It starts as so many crime books do with a body. This one is found in a river near the village of Giverny. More in this section. 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