Petit Mort

Adèle Roux dreams of becoming a film star. While working in the costume department for the Pathe film factory in Paris, she grows close to André Durand, master of technological effects and husband of Terpsichore, his film star wife. When an opportunity arises for her to become his wife's personal assistant, she moves in with the couple, leaving her cramped rented accommodation in the city for their luxurious house in the Paris suburbs. Within the house, relationships develop in unusual ways, and when Adèle finally gets her chance to star in Petite Mort, a new film that André is working on, she could not anticipate the deadly consequences it would lead to.

This intriguing debut novel leaps between Adèle's viewpoint in the 1920s and a present day journalist, who is investigating the removal of a key scene from the original film negatives of Petite Mort - who would do this and what have they got to hide? Petite Mort will keep you guessing right up until the last page.