The Devil’s Playground by Craig Russell
Do Tell by Lindsay Lynch
Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
The death of Martin Amis sent me back to his fantastic memoir Experience, where, amid much dazzling insight, there’s an odd little interlude in which he gets all man-crushy over Pulp Fiction–era John Travolta (whom he profiled for The New Yorker). They share “intimate dinners” and warm embraces, while Amis flicks away concerns about Travolta’s Scientology beliefs. Which just goes to show, movie stars can make mugs of the best of us.
Cut to two new novels about deception, Hollywood-style, featuring two women whose jobs involve making mugs of the movie-mad public.
