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A crime thriller told principally from the PoVs of Millie, once a make-up artist on films, recently released after serving over twenty years for a murder she didn't commit, and Jerry, a mixed-race film studies student whose accent seems to become more Scottish as the novel progresses. They are on the run across Europe after Millie stumbles across a clue to why justice miscarried for her and somebody tries to kill her. As is typical of the genre there is the mystery of a supposedly-cursed horror film whose negative has gone AWOL, a leavening of comedy in the dialogue between these two mismatched characters, and a secret which must be revealed before the final reel.
Entertaining.
Selected quotes:
- “Maybe she didn't have a trust fund, and maybe Danby didn't either, but Jerry was damn sure that whatever their fathers gave them, it was more than his. The only thing daddy had given Jerry Kelly was pigmentation.” (Belonging)
- “Jerry had heard it said that there were two types of rich people: smart people who knew they'd got lucky, and lucky people who thought they were smart.” (Belonging)
- “She had dealt with people like Anne for decades: a rulebook with shoes.” (A social call)
- “Everybody dreams of being a starving artist until dinner time” (Blood)
- “Weirdly, after months of imposter syndrome at uni, he was finding it easier being an actual imposter.” (Intruders)
- “It turned out that sourcing condoms was not an issue when a rock band's tour bus was parked outside.” (The Fog)
- “It was like I was searching in the fog, not because the answers lay there, but because the fog looked intriguing, mysterious. But fog is not just insubstantial, it is constantly changing.” (The Fog)
- “Peroxide locks that hadn't changed a Pantone in decades.” (Casting)
- “I wonder if the French have a word for volte face.” (Casting)
March 2026; 404 pages
Published by Little, Brown in 2021
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