Paris Match: A gripping and seductive literary thriller

'A delight. . . a finely-tuned murder mystery' COLM TÓIBÍN

Art. Sex. Murder.

Paris. One hot June. Fin Vollmer, a 23-year-old American expat turned sex worker is living on his wits and his beauty. He’s overstayed his visa, and he has no plans to leave. There’s nothing for him back home but the haunting tragedy he fled. But when Fin arrives one early morning to find a freshly divorced client murdered in his palatial apartment, he fears what it might look like. He runs.

Jamie Hayes, an ex-model turned personal assistant at the sharp end of middle age, is in over his head and desperately trying to arrange an exit strategy. He creeps into his employer Damien’s apartment and commits a brutal murder.

And then he realizes there’s one living witness, the beautiful boy who showed up unexpectedly but didn’t call the police. Thus begins a city-spanning game of cat and mouse, from its seedy gay saunas to the glamorous auction houses of the art world – a game where only one of them can make it out of alive.

'Thrilling, deliciously sordid' KATIE KITAMURA

'A wily, energetic Parisian-American gay adventure. Read this book!' GUS VAN SANT

'A beautiful nightmare from which I did not want to wake up' HERNAN DIAZ

'My favourite kind of novel, a propulsive story crafted in a way that makes the reader want to linger over every line’ ERIN KELLY

Praise for Christopher Bollen

'‘Patricia Highsmith by way of Alan Hollinghurst’ ALEXANDER CHEE
'Deeply atmospheric. . . vivid and gripping' EMMA CLINE
'Atmospheric, diabolical fun' LUCY FOLEY
'Disturbingly enjoyable' EMMA HEALEY
'A taut, wicked masterpiece' MONA AWAD
‘A thriller master’ LA Times
'Extraordinary' A. J. FINN