Night Film, Marisha Pessl

Investigative journalist Scott McGrath’s fame came crashing down around him when he took on reclusive filmmaker Cordova, a man whose movies are so visceral and disturbing that they are screened only in secret. A false source made McGrath pay dearly.

Years later Cordova’s daughter, Ashley; throws herself from the top of a deserted warehouse and McGrath, haunted by a vision in red starts to investigate her death. Along with wannabe actress Nora and the enigmatic Hopper, he plumbs the depths of the Cordovites, the secret websites and obsessed fans. But who is investigating whom. Why was Ashley so keen to protect young children? What is ‘the devil’s mark’? Did Mathilde kill Ashley and how come all the actors in Cordova’s films fled from his compound and studio, The Peak? Forever changed.

McGrath is beginning to think he’s in a night film of his own and for the character he is playing, this doesn’t always end well.