“Under Dangerous Sun” by French “king of detective stories” Michel Bussi is a remarkable literary puzzle set on an exotic island. Five women dreaming of becoming writers gather at the boarding house “Under Dangerous Sun,” at the very center of one of the world’s most isolated archipelagos—the Marquesas Islands. A dreamlike literary workshop under open sky: around, palms rustle, the surf roars, and flowers smell intoxicatingly. The spirits of the island’s famous residents—Paul Gauguin and Jacques Brel—still linger here, and along the roads, at crossroads, by the doors of shops, tiki idols—ancient Polynesian figures, half human, half god—wait. The head of the workshop, a famous writer proclaimed the “bestseller emperor,” assigns an exercise. Start the story with the disappearance of a character so that the reader wonders: was he murdered or not? Soon after, the writer himself mysteriously disappears, and his clothes are found on the beach along with a mysterious note. What is it—part of the creative assignment? A staged event meant to wake up their imagination? Now the writers’ task is to carry the literary game forward and invent a continuation… Only life turns out, once again, to be far more incredible than any literature.