‘Miracle on Mt. Terrible’
That was the headline
after a plane crash in the Jura mountains in 1980. One survivor, a baby girl,
thrown clear of the wreckage. Two families come forward to claim her, they both
had grandchildren on the flight. The De Carvilles are moneyed and lawyered up
to their perfectly manicured eyeballs. Of course their granddaughter Lyse-Rose
survived the crash. The less well-off Vitrals don’t agree because the baby is
their granddaughter Emilie. Of course DNA could’ve solved the mystery, if DNA
had been around in the eighties.
The ensuing court case
puts both families under the microscope and although one family gets Lylie (a
hybrid of Lyse-Rose and Emilie) neither walks away intact.
Eighteen years later former
mercenary turned PI, Crėdule Grand-Duc is about to mark his crushing failure to
establish Lylie Vitral’s true identity with a bullet in the head. Then he has an
epiphany, makes a phone call and hours later he is dead, the only clues to who
killed him written inside the journal he sent to Lylie and she has vanished. It
falls to Lylie’s brother Marc to follow the trail and unmask Grand-Duc’s
killer.
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