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Paris Match
  • Published: 6 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781787306042
  • Imprint: Harvill
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $34.99

Paris Match

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6 Apr 2027
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8 Apr 2027
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A young sex worker finds his rich client murdered in his Paris apartment – pulling him into a game of cat and mouse with the killer, a former male model, in this sexy and sophisticated queer thriller.

'Dark, sexy, and dangerously addictive' JOSH SILVER

'A delight. . . a finely-tuned murder mystery' COLM TÓIBÍN

Art. Sex. Murder.

Paris. One hot June. Fin Vollmer, a 23-year-old American expat turned sex worker is living on his wits and his beauty. He’s overstayed his visa, and he has no plans to leave. There’s nothing for him back home but the haunting tragedy he fled. But when Fin arrives one early morning to find a freshly divorced client murdered in his palatial apartment, he fears what it might look like. He runs.

Jamie Hayes, an ex-model turned personal assistant at the sharp end of middle age, is in over his head and desperately trying to arrange an exit strategy. He creeps into his employer Damien’s apartment and commits a brutal murder.

And then he realizes there’s one living witness, the beautiful boy who showed up unexpectedly but didn’t call the police. Thus begins a city-spanning game of cat and mouse, from its seedy gay saunas to the glamorous auction houses of the art world – a game where only one of them can make it out of alive.

'Thrilling, deliciously sordid' KATIE KITAMURA

'A wily, energetic Parisian-American gay adventure. Read this book!' GUS VAN SANT

'A beautiful nightmare from which I did not want to wake up' HERNAN DIAZ

Praise for Christopher Bollen

'Fantastic' ZADIE SMITH
‘Patricia Highsmith by way of Alan Hollinghurst’ ALEXANDER CHEE
'Deeply atmospheric. . . vivid and gripping' EMMA CLINE
'Atmospheric, diabolical fun' LUCY FOLEY
'Disturbingly enjoyable' EMMA HEALEY
'A taut, wicked masterpiece' MONA AWAD
‘A thriller master’ LA Times
'Extraordinary' A. J. FINN
  • Published: 6 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781787306042
  • Imprint: Harvill
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Christopher Bollen

Christopher Bollen is an American novelist, editor, and cultural writer known for expansive, psychologically probing works blending literary fiction with crime and mystery. A former editor-in-chief of Interview, he has authored six acclaimed novels, including Orient, The Destroyers, A Beautiful Crime, and The Lost Americans. His latest, Havoc (2024), won the Ohio Book Award and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.
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Praise for Paris Match

Dark, sexy, and dangerously addictive, Paris Match is a thrilling examination of beauty as currency and the power it holds over us. Bollen’s writing grabbed me and pulled me through the chapters, not letting me come up for air until the very end.

Josh Silver, author of FRUIT FLY

Thrilling, deliciously sordid, full of beauty and heartbreak. A deeply propulsive novel about desperation and innocence lost, it is also a remarkably tender love story. Ravishing in every way, Paris Match is Bollen’s best book yet.

Katie Kitamura, Booker shortlisted author of AUDITION

Paris Match is a delight for its wry observation, its witty asides, its knowing descriptions of being a gay American in Paris. But it is also a finely-tuned murder mystery. We know from the opening sentence who did it, the tension and excitement come in what happens next.

Colm Tóibín

In Paris Match, Christopher Bollen brilliantly considers murder as one of the fine arts. What an engrossing, utterly pleasurable, and morally complex novel this is. A beautiful nightmare from which I did not want to wake up.

Hernan Diaz, author of TRUST

With its intricate plot and style, Paris Match is a wily, energetic Parisian-American gay adventure. Read this book!

Gus Van Sant