Guillaume Musso sometimes has a shaky metaphor. Fear can streak the skin with electric shocks. And the truth, squirt like pus from a boil. Examples taken from his youngest, Someone else, which will raise eyebrows among some but will not discourage the faithful of the author with 34 million books sold, especially since for the first time in his 20-year career, he has not published for a year, in 2023. This Very “Mussoian” suspense in terms of efficiency begins with the murder of the very rich Oriana, on her yacht. What follows are the versions of events from the victim’s husband, his mistress, the policewoman who is leading the investigation and Oriana herself. They all say the truth. In their own way. After many twists and turns (it’s dizzying), the last line of the novel reveals the key to the mystery. And makes you want to go back into the text (avoiding welts and boils) to see where and when the clues were planted. Behind the rabbit pulled out of the hat lies a lot of premeditation. From both the culprit and the perpetrator.
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