Description
Book SynopsisIn this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge.
Trade Review"Exceptionally entertaining. . . .
The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith. . . . This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. [Lasdun] deserves to find more readers on these shores." -- New York Times Book Review
"Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations." -- Wall Street Journal
"Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . .
The Fall Guy is a twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller." -- Boston Globe
"Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal." -- Lionel Shriver - Financial Times
"Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York. There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller, but it’s the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing." -- People
"As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun’s combustible psychological thriller." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked." -- Seattle Review of Books
"[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
