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This is what I call a puzzle mystery, clues are revealed slowly, pieces are assembled but it is not until the final piece that all becomes apparent. Of course not, there would be no story if they did.Īlternately narrated by the private detective's journal, he who was hired by the wealthy family and would spend eighteen years looking definitive proof of the child's identity and Mark the young man thought to be the brother of the unidentified child.

Was reminded a bit of King Solomon here, would one family give up, their claim in the best interest of the child. In the time before DNA it is almost impossible to prove which baby this was and so two families, one wealthy with connections, one hard working with no connections both claim the baby as their grandchildren. Really? Well, stranger things have happened in life, so just go with it.

A plane crash, two three month old babies on board and one survives while every other being on the plane does not. (Jan.Translated for the first time from France, this book has won multiple awards in its home country. This fascinating tale of intrigue and murder delves into complicated family bonds as it builds to a surprising and shocking conclusion. Meanwhile, sleazy Crédule Grand-Duc, a former mercenary turned private detective, spends the next 18 years trying to uncover the child’s identity. Was the baby Lyse-Rose de Carville, granddaughter of a wealthy family and now heir to an industrial fortune? Or was the little survivor Emilie Vitral, whose grandparents operate a van that sells snack food in Dieppe? Both sets of parents died in the crash, and the primitive DNA testing of the time can’t provide an answer.

The Dragonfly was one of two babies the same age on the flight from Istanbul to Paris, but during the crash any bits of identification were lost.

A three-month-old girl, dubbed the Dragonfly by the media, is the sole survivor of a 1980 airline crash in the Jura Mountains at the Franco-Swiss border. French crime author Bussi makes his English-language debut with an insightful thriller.