The 6:41 to Paris

By: Jean-Philippe Blondel

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Synopsis: After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a &“suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace&” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Cécile, 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. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face-to-face journey—In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?—with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This intense, intimate novel offers &“a taut, suspenseful psychological journey from which there is no escape . . . Gripping&” (Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story). &“Perfectly written and a remarkably suspenseful read . . . Absorbing, intriguing, insightful.&” —Library Journal (starred review)