Sébastien Japrisot
Pushkin Vertigo
12 January 2027
224
eBook - PDF
Thriller
ARC via Edelweiss
Dany Longo, is blonde, beautiful, and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favour for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird car on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. She is supposed to drive it back to his house, but on impulse, she decides to head south toward the sea.
What starts as an impromptu joyride rapidly becomes a nightmare when strangers all along the unfamiliar route claim to recognize Dany from the previous day. But that’s impossible: she was at work, she was in Paris, she was miles away...wasn’t she?
So begins a series of bewildering, terrifying encounters on the road. It hits crisis point when Dany discovers a corpse in the trunk of the Thunderbird. Is Dany the victim of a complicated conspiracy, or is her grip on reality rapidly slipping away?
Blending unnerving tension with a fiendish puzzle plot, this intricate noir thriller from bestselling French writer Sébastien Japrisot was voted one of the 100 best crime novels of all time by the Sunday Times. The narrative is structured into 4 disparate parts that gradually piece together in a shocking reveal that will leave readers’ minds spinning long after they turn the very last page.
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun was a book that really crept up on me. At first I was just reading along without too much connection, but as the story kept twisting and twisting, gradually my interest began to spiral with it, and I think the slow buildup of the different layers in this narrative is the book's biggest strength. It pulls you in so gradually until you are fully immersed and feel as disorientated about what is real as Dany does, right up to the final reveal. It is a fairly short read but still impactful, and every time I thought I had it all worked out, something else would come up which made me doubt my assumption, which is always good in a thriller as it's boring if you can see the ending too far in advance. Although this is not one of my main reading genres, I enjoyed this a lot and would happily read more from this author in the future. I am giving this one 4.5 stars.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
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