6:41 to Paris

After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a "e;suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace"e; (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Cecile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation almost thirty years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles toward the French capital. Cecile and Philippe undertake their own face-to-face journey In silence? What could they possibly say to one another? with the reader gaining entree to the most private of thoughts. This intense, intimate novel offers "e;a taut, suspenseful psychological journey from which there is no escape . . . Gripping"e; (Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story). "e;Perfectly written and a remarkably suspenseful read . . . Absorbing, intriguing, insightful."e; Library Journal (starred review)