Paris Match

**A twisty, binge-y novel of art, sex, fashion, and murder, a delicious game of cat and mouse across the arrondissements of Paris, where every form of beauty is for sale Nothing is more interesting than a person with something to hide. “Thrilling, deliciously sordid, full of beauty and heartbreak.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Audition** “Dark, sexy and dangerously addictive.”—Josh Silver, author of Fruit Fly “A beautiful nightmare from which I did not want to wake up.”—Hernan Diaz, author of Trust “A finely-tuned murder mystery . . . a delight.”—Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn Fin Vollmer didn't do it. A twenty-three-year-old American in Paris, Fin's luck is running out. He's been living off his wits and beauty, but his visa has expired and he can't go home to Ohio, where haunting memories await. He's turned to casual sex work to survive, but when Fin discovers a client murdered in his palatial apartment on Île Saint-Louis, Fin knows what's coming for him and he runs. Jamie Hayes did. An ex-model turned personal assistant at the sharp end of middle age, Jamie is in over his head and desperately trying to arrange an exit strategy from his many mistakes. After committing a violent murder, he now must stop the only witness from uncovering the truth. Thus begins a game of cat and mouse across the neighborhoods of Paris and every social strata, from the lavishly appointed apartments overlooking the Seine and the elite auction houses selling France's artistic heritage to the squalid saunas of the Boulevard de Sébastopol and the vast overnight flower market that supplies the city's lobbies and tables with glorious, perishable beauty. At once a deliciously propulsive work of suspense and a transportive journey to the most beautiful city in the world, Paris Match is the most ambitious novel yet from an author the Los Angeles Times calls "a thriller master." Thus begins a game of cat and mouse across the neighborhoods of Paris and every social strata, from the lavishly appointed apartments overlooking the Seine and the elite auction houses selling France's artistic heritage to the squalid saunas of the Boulevard de Sébastopol and the vast overnight flower market that supplies the city's lobbies and tables with glorious, perishable beauty. At once a deliciously propulsive work of suspense and a transportive journey to the most beautiful city in the world, Paris Match is the most ambitious novel yet from an author the Los Angeles Times calls "a thriller master."