Rake, by Scott Phillips
Rake, cad, roué, scoundrel. He's the man you love to hate-- or hate to love. The anti-hero of Rake, actor Crandall Taylor, is all these things.
Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest, has set his latest thriller in Paris. His fox in the henhouse is Crandall, the lead villain of a trashy Santa Barbara-like soap opera which has flopped in the States, but is making it big in Europe.
Taylor moves to Paris to enjoy the life of a celebrity, and exploit his capital to make a film. But by "inhabiting his character," he's has made powerful enemies.
Written with striking immediacy, momentum, and knowing humor, Rake is modern noir at its caddish, loutish, suspenseful best.
Narrated by Christian Rummel, who's narrated so many wonderful titles, from Jean Craighead George's Newbery-honored classic My Side of the Mountain, to Stephen King's Guns.
--Willow Pennell
