Novels
- The 10.30 from Marseilles (1963)
- Trap for Cinderella (1964)
- The Lady in the Car with Glas*ses and a Gun (1967)
- Goodbye, Friend (1969)
- One Deadly Summer (1980)
- Women in Evidence (1990)
- A Very Long Engagement (1993)
- Rider on the Rain (1999)
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Sébastien Japrisot Books Overview
The 10.30 from Marseilles
A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris. She is not in the embrace of sleep, or even in the arms of one of her many lovers. She is dead. And the unpleasant task of finding her killer is handed to an overworked, crime weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, nicknamed Grazzi, who would rather play hide and seek with his little son than cat and mouse with a diabolically cunning, savage murderer.
Trap for Cinderella
A suspicious beach house fire in southern France traps two young women. One dies. One survives, but is burned beyond recognition and left with amnesia. Plastic surgery gives her a pretty new face, but who is she, really? Killer or victim? Winner of France’s most prestigious crime fiction award, Trap for Cinderella is an engrossing tour de force by a master of mystery and deception.
The Lady in the Car with Glas*ses and a Gun
A classic noir suspense novel back in print. Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed or why she is going there.
One Deadly Summer
The classic noir suspense novel by the bestselling author of A Very Long Engagement. Part love story, part mystery, and part parable on the nature of evil and the porous fabric separating the victim from the victimizer, One Deadly Summer tells the compelling story of a cunning young woman’s plan to avenge a crime committed against her family.
A Very Long Engagement
‘Diabolically clever. The reader is alternately impressed, beguiles, frightened, bewildered. A considerable achievement.’ Anita Brookner. During the First World War, five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no man’s land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the line of duty and the whole, distasteful incident appears closed. After the war, the fiance of one of the men receives a letter which hints at what might have happened. Mathilde Donnay determines to discover the fate of her beloved amid the carnage of battle. ‘A Very Long Engagement‘ turns into an unusual and engrossing thriller as she discovers an increasing number of people trying to put her off the scent. Japrisot’s achievement is to have written a novel that is both a suspenseful thriller and one which transforms a single small incident into the epitome of all wartime atrocities. The denouement, when it finally happens, is moving and horribly convincing. Sebastien Japrisot was born in Marseille, France, in 1931. He had published his first novel, ‘Les Mal Partis’ when he was only 17. He has translated the works of J.D. Salinger and pursued a successful career in advertising and publicity. He has been a scriptwriter and the director of two films. His first crime novel, ‘The 10:30 from Marseille’, was received with great acclaim. His reputation as a master for crime fiction has grown with the publication of ‘The Lady in the Car with Glas*ses and a Gun’, ‘A Trap for Cinderella’ and ‘Rider on the Rain’. His novel ‘One Deadly Summer’ was made into a film starring Isabelle Adjani. ‘A Very Long Engagement‘ was an international bestseller and won the Prix Interalli.
Rider on the Rain
The story of the psychological duel between an American investigator and Mellie, following the murder of a stranger who had also raped her.
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