Praise for Pascal Garnier

'Horribly funny ... appalling and bracing in equal measure. Masterful' John Banville

'Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He's a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. Kennedy

'Wonderful ... Properly noir' Ian Rankin

'Ennui, dislocation, alienation, estrangement - these are the colours on Garnier's palette. His books are out there on their own, short, jagged and exhilarating, unexpected slaps around the face that make you laugh with surprise while you spin around to see who did it' Stanley Donwood

'Pascal Garnier is my favourite French crime writer by a country mile ...' Laura Wilson, The Guardian

'A dark, richly odd and disconcerting world ... devastating and brilliant' Sunday Times

'A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard' Financial Times

'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince' Sunday Telegraph

'Garnier's take on the frailty of life has a bracing originality' Sunday Times

'Marvellously unpredictable' The Guardian

'A master of the surreal noir thriller - Luis Buñuel meets Georges Simenon' TLS

'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' Observer

'For those with a taste for Georges Simenon or Patricia Highsmith' The Independent

'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' Marilyn Stasio, New York Times

'Exquisite noir' Publishers Weekly

'Brief, brisk, ruthlessly entertaining ... Garnier makes bleakness pleasurable' John Powers, NPR

'Wickedly fun ... wonderfully dark' Complete Review

'A perfectly balanced cross between a thriller and a social document' L'Express