In The Front Seat Passenger, the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier tells the story of a young widower whose late wife was keeping secrets from him.
'Devastating and brilliant' Sunday Times
Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stunned to discover that she had a lover who died alongside her. With thoughts of revenge on his mind, Fabien decides to find out about the lover's widow, Martine, first by stalking her, then by breaking into her home. He really needs to get Martine on her own. But she never goes anywhere without her formidable best friend, Madeleine...
Avanti meets Misery meets Quentin Tarantino.
'The Front Seat Passenger is a short novel - I read it in a day - but the story is unyielding in the madness of its characters ... an ironic and darkly humorous book that I thoroughly enjoyed' Suspense Magazine
'A dark, richly odd and disconcerting world ... devastating and brilliant' Sunday Times
'It doesn't waste a word - the work of a master' Mr Hyde
'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
'Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit' The Observer
'A master of the surreal noir thriller - Luis Buñuel meets Georges Simenon' Times Literary Supplement