As the night train pulls in to Paris from Marseille, a beautiful young woman is found dead in her carriage.The task of finding her killer is handed to overworked, crime-weary police detective Pierre 'Grazzi' Grazziano, who has little interest in playing cat-and-mouse with a diabolically cunning, savage murderer.But as more corpses are discovered across Paris, the question becomes not only who is the killer, but who will be their next victim, and Grazzi is drawn into a fast-moving story of lust, deception and death.



Sébastien Japrisot (4 July 1931 - 4 March 2003) was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed "the Graham Greene of France". One Deadly Summer was made into a film starring Isabelle Adjani in 1983. A Very Long Engagement was an international bestseller, won the Prix Interallié and was later also made into a film starring Audrey Tatou in 2004.



Japrisot writes with warmth, and has a gift for rendering almost every character instantly likable



A strongly plotted story of murder with a clever ironical ending... Remarkable



- - Praise for Sébastien Japrisot



Sébastien Japrisot's talents as a storyteller have something of magic about them. You have to wait until the last page to be liberated from his grasp



The most welcome talent since the early Simenons



Diabolically clever



Utterly captivating