Night Film: A Novel,New

New York Times Bestsellernamed One Of The Best Books Of The Year Bynpr Cosmopolitan Kirkus Reviews Bookpagea Pageturning Thriller For Readers Of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, And Stieg Larsson, Night Film Tells The Haunting Story Of A Journalist Who Becomes Obsessed With The Mysterious Death Of A Troubled Prodigythe Daughter Of An Iconic, Reclusive Filmmaker.On A Damp October Night, Beautiful Young Ashley Cordova Is Found Dead In An Abandoned Warehouse In Lower Manhattan. Though Her Death Is Ruled A Suicide, Veteran Investigative Journalist Scott Mcgrath Suspects Otherwise. As He Probes The Strange Circumstances Surrounding Ashleys Life And Death, Mcgrath Comes Facetoface With The Legacy Of Her Father: The Legendary, Reclusive Culthorrorfilm Director Stanislas Cordovaa Man Who Hasnt Been Seen In Public For More Than Thirty Years.For Mcgrath, Another Death Connected To This Seemingly Cursed Family Dynasty Seems More Than Just A Coincidence. Though Much Has Been Written About Cordovas Dark And Unsettling Films, Very Little Is Known About The Man Himself.Driven By Revenge, Curiosity, And A Need For The Truth, Mcgrath, With The Aid Of Two Strangers, Is Drawn Deeper And Deeper Into Cordovas Eerie, Hypnotic World.The Last Time He Got Close To Exposing The Director, Mcgrath Lost His Marriage And His Career. This Time He Might Lose Even More.Night Film, The Gorgeously Written, Spellbinding New Novel By The Dazzlingly Inventive Marisha Pessl, Will Hold You In Suspense Until You Turn The Final Page.Praise For Night Filmnight Film Has Been Precisionengineered To Be Read At High Velocity, And Its Energy Would Be The Envy Of Any Summer Blockbuster. Your Average Writer Of Thrillers Should Lust For Pessls Deft Touch With Character.Joe Hill, The New York Times Book Reviewmysterious And Even A Little Headspinning, An Amazing Act Of Imagination.Dean Baquet, The New York Times Book Reviewmaniacally Clever . . . Cordova Is A Monomaniacal Genius Who Creeps Into The Darkest Crevices Of The Human Psyche. . . . As A Study Of A Great Mythmaker, Night Film Is An Absorbing Act Of Mythmaking Itself. . . . Dastardly Fun . . . The Plot Feels Like An M. C. Escher Nightmare About Edgar Allan Poe. . . . Youll Miss Your Subway Stop, Let Dinner Burn And Start Sleeping With The Lights On.The Washington Posthaunting . . . A Suspenseful, Sprawling Pageturner.Usa Todayentrancing And Delightful . . . [A] Whipsmart Humdinger Of A Thriller . . . It Feels, Above All Things, New.The Boston Globegripping . . . A Masterful Puzzle . . . Pessl Builds Up Real Suspense.Entertainment Weeklya Very Deeply Imagined Book . . . Sprints To An Ending Thats Equal Parts Nagging And Haunting: What Lingers, Beyond All The Pageturning, Is A Density Of Possible Clues That Leaves You Leafing Backward, Scanning Fictional Blog Comments And Newspaper Clippings, Positive Theres Some Secret Detail That Will Snap Everything Into Focus.New Yorkhypnotic . . . The Real And The Imaginary, Life And Art, Are Dizzyingly Distorted Not Only In A Cordova Night Film . . . But In Pessls Own Night Film As Well.Vanity Fair