Twenty Minutes of Silence

Inspired by a true crime, the mid-century genius Hélène Bessette unfolds a murder mystery in hypnotic interludes, as only she knows how

In an opulent villa near the English channel lives a well-to-do family. A man—a husband, father, and employer—has been shot dead. The bullet is from his own gun, which he got from the Germans during the war. In this family, the father has a safe, a monkey wrench, a wife, and a maid named Rose. The son has a swing, a croquet set, a rain coat, and a car. They ...