Night Film A Novel

Night Film has been precision-engineered 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 Pessl s deft touch with character. Joe Hill, The New York Times Book Review
 
Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination. Dean Baquet, The New York Times Book Review
 
Maniacally 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 myth-making itself. . . . Dastardly fun . . . The plot feels like an M. C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe. . . . You ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn and start sleeping with the lights on. The Washington Post
 
Haunting . . . a suspenseful, sprawling page-turner. USA Today
 
Entrancing and delightful . . . [a] whipsmart humdinger of a thriller . . . It feels, above all things, new. The Boston Globe
 
Gripping . . . a masterful puzzle . . . Pessl builds up real suspense. Entertainment Weekly
 
A very deeply imagined book . . . sprints to an ending that s equal parts nagging and haunting: What lingers, beyond all the page-turning, is a density of possible clues that leaves you leafing backward, scanning fictional blog comments and newspaper clippings, positive there s some secret detail that will snap everything into focus. New York
 
Hypnotic . . . The real and the imaginary, life and art, are dizzyingly distorted not only in a Cordova night film . . . but in Pessl s own Night Film as well. Vanity Fair
 
A literary mystery that s also a page-turner . . . Night Film might be the most talked-about novel this summer. Time Out New York
 
Noirish, impish and stylish, this literary thriller delivers twists, kinks and characters to care about. . . . Night Film gets two thumbs up. More
 
You won t put this book down. Marie Claire
 
A shrewdly contemporary whodunit. W Magazine
 
The sort of a top-shelf whodunit that thriller buffs dream of. Seriously, people, this is the Game of Thrones of murder mysteries. Out
 
Night Film is an engrossing yarn, full of twists and cliffhangers. . . . Pessl handles Cordova s menace superbly, keeping readers in thrall. The Economist
 
It may be true, as the opening scene of the novel says, that everybody has a story about Cordova. But it s hard to imagine any one that would be better than Night Film. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
Screenshots of online news articles and the Cordovite fansite, as well as copies of mental hospital patient assessment forms and other official documents all fictional plus McGrath s terror-filled imagination, pull the reader into Pessl s masterfully played ruse. Pessl has matured into a cleverly entertaining writer who wields her strengths with greater precision than in Special Topics. The Kansas City Star
 
A gothic thriller that s among the best novels I ve read this year. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
 
Having finished Night Film, I now find myself a dedicated Cordovite. Rob Brunner, The New York Times Magazine
 
A testament to Pessl s tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Scott Smith, author of The Ruins
 
A rare and wonderful thing an ambitious novel that hits its target fair and square. Night Film is beautifully imagined, beautifully written, and hypnotically suspenseful. Lee Child, author of A Wanted Man
 
This summer s Gone Girl: a completely absorbing literary thriller. Library Journal
 
Inventive . . . Think Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King meet Guillermo del Toro. Kirkus Reviews
 
Seven years after Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Pessl returns with a novel as twisted and intelligent as that lauded debut. Publishers Weekly
 
Expands from a seemingly straightforward mystery into a multifaceted, densely byzantine exploration of much larger issues. Booklist (starred review)