The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun : The Classic 1960s Parisian Noir

Author: Sebastien Japrisot

Crime & mystery

Published on 8 October 2026 by Pushkin Press (Pushkin Vertigo) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 224 pages
198 x 129 | 0g

VOTED ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES 100 BEST CRIME NOVELS

'Classic suspenseful noir' The Times

'Suspense, sex, trick psychology and fast action' Publishers Weekly

'Utterly captivating' Guardian

Twenty-six-year-old Dany Longo speeds out of Paris in her boss's exquisite Thunderbird. She's spent her Friday night working thanks to him; now she's stolen his car and headed for the sea.

But this sun-kissed joyride soon spirals into a nightmare. Everywhere she goes, strangers recognise her dark glasses and the car: she came this way just yesterday. Then a corpse appears in the boot of the Thunderbird.

Either she's being framed or she's losing her mind. She was in Paris the day before... wasn't she?