Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, <i>Night Film</i> is a superb literary thriller by the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the “blockbuster debut” (<i>People</i>)<i> Special Topics in Calamity Physics</i>.<br> <br> On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive, cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.<br> <br> For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.<br> <br> Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.<br> <br> The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.<br> <br> <i>Night Film,</i> the gorgeously written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl, will hold you in suspense until you turn the final page.