Claire Fuller is the author most recently of the novel Hunger and Thirst. Her previous novels include Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons; Bitter Orange; Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; and The Memory of Animals.
[The Page 69 Test: Our Endless Numbered Days]
At Oprah Daily the author tagged five novels "that weave in real crimes and real questions about literature’s most controversial genre." One title on the list:
Night Film by Marisha PesslRead about the other entries on the list.
At 640 pages, this whopper of a novel documents a fictional investigation into the death of 24-year-old Ashley Cordova through invented photographs, newspaper articles, typed incident reports, and more. It’s a clever and disconcerting way to blend fiction with what feels like reality, allowing the reader to act like a detective trawling through an archive of old documents.
The story itself centers around disgraced investigative journalist Scott McGrath, who sets out to discover what happened to Ashley and restore his reputation in the process—which has been decimated by Ashley’s famous film director father. Night Film is perfect if you like a hard-boiled, seedy-underworld style.
Night Film is among Lindsay Kent's five great novels that read like bad trips, fever dreams, or reality warps, Jenny Elder Moke's five mystery novels with unique settings, Lauren Acampora's nine top novels of art and seduction, Kate Reed Petty's seven thrillers about filmmakers & subversive art, and Jeff Somers's ten creepy Halloween books and four huge books that will hurt your brain—but in a good way.
--Marshal Zeringue
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