NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Cosmopolitan •
Kirkus Reviews • BookPage A page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King Gillian Flynn
and Stieg Larsson Night Film tells the haunting story of a journalist who becomes obsessed
with the mysterious death of a troubled prodigy-the daughter of an iconic reclusive filmmaker.
On a damp October night beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse
in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide veteran investigative journalist Scott
McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life
and death McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary reclusive
cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova-a man who hasn't been seen in public for more than
thirty years. For McGrath another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty
seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova's dark and
unsettling films very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge curiosity
and a need for the truth McGrath with the aid of two strangers is drawn deeper and deeper
into Cordova's eerie hypnotic world. The last time he got close to exposing the director
McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more. Night Film the
gorgeously written spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl will hold
you in suspense until you turn the final page. Praise for Night Film "Night Film has been
precision-engineered to be read at high velocity and its energy would be the envy of any
summer blockbuster. Your average writer of thrillers should lust for Pessl's deft touch with
character."-Joe Hill The New York Times Book Review "Mysterious and even a little
head-spinning an amazing act of imagination."-Dean Baquet The New York Times Book Review
"Maniacally clever . . . Cordova is a monomaniacal genius who creeps into the darkest crevices
of the human psyche. . . . As a study of a great mythmaker Night Film is an absorbing act of
myth-making itself. . . . Dastardly fun . . . The plot feels like an M. C. Escher nightmare
about Edgar Allan Poe. . . . You'll miss your subway stop let dinner burn and start sleeping
with the lights on."-The Washington Post "Haunting . . . a suspenseful sprawling
page-turner."-USA Today "Entrancing and delightful . . . [a] whipsmart humdinger of a
thriller . . . It feels above all things new."-The Boston Globe "Gripping . . . a
masterful puzzle . . . Pessl builds up real suspense."-Entertainment Weekly "A very deeply
imagined book . . . sprints to an ending that's equal parts nagging and haunting: What lingers
beyond all the page-turning is a density of possible clues that leaves you leafing backward
scanning fictional blog comments and newspaper clippings positive there's some secret detail
that will snap everything into focus."-New York "Hypnotic . . . The real and the imaginary
life and art are dizzyingly distorted not only in a Cordova night film . . . but in Pessl's
own Night Film as well."-Vanity Fair
