On an air of Charlélie Couture

After a plane crash, the record is awful - as the name of the mountain on which the tragedy occurred - since there is only one tiny miracle, a baby of 3 months. But, ironically, two families with a girl of 3 months had boarded that plane and grandparents on both sides claim the child. One side is the proletarian Dieppe type and the other type pledged to particle. One would almost think in "Life is a bed of roses" but no comedy here. It may be annoying to the Manichean approach to the class struggle, with the poor and the rich villains nice but at the same time is one of the relevant springs a well-crafted plot. The author manages to keep the plot for 18 years, alternating in the telling of one hand the newspaper's private investigator responsible (for the wealthy family, of course) of the survey to the 18 years of the famous baby and other action has different protagonists to surprising denouement. This seems hard to keep us in suspense as long ... we think of DNA, photographs etc and we feel that it is at the limit of credibility but the author nevertheless manages to maintain membership. "Like a plane without it" is an original whodunit intrigue well conducted and well drawn characters: a good discovery for me.