I had high hopes for this due to the enticing blurb, but although I found much to admire here, it didn’t really click for me.

This was a quirky, nested story within a story. It was an engrossing, fast paced plot that will appeal to many readers.
Many thanks to Gallic Books and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Another interesting book by Pascal Garnier, with all of the intrigue and twists that you expect.

A relatively short book, but enjoyable.

This was well written, well paced, and very very clever. The plot was imaginative and clever. My low rating is that the cleverness felt like it distanced me away from the characters. It's more my state of mind during reading I suspect.

Regular readers of my blog know all too well my deep affection for the work of the late lamented Pascal Garnier, so it will come as no surprise that this is another winner. Cleverly, and in the space of only 159 pages, Garnier weaves together the story in real time, and the book that is being written by the crime writer, constantly shifting your attention between the two. I liked the fictional tale incorporated within the other fictional tale, if you get my drift, and was almost tempted to write another review of that one too. In his trademark style, both stories deal with sex, death, greed, passion, and murder, and dig down to the nastiest aspects of the human psyche, with black humour and mordant wit. Genius.