Jean-Patrick Manchette

Aimâee, an assassin, goes into a coastal town and manipulates the town's wealthy citizens into hiring her to kill the weakest link, but when she develops sympathy for the target, she decides to retaliate against her clients instead.

Fatale

John Lopiano Jr.

Quick read. I had heard it was good so I decided to give it a shot. It starts with a bang (literally). I finished it in a day. My only knock on it was that it felt like it could have been even better had it been a little more fleshed out, but I think the whole point of a book about nihilism is that nothing really matters all that much. It being so short was kind of the point. Good, quick read though.

Tathagat Ghosh

Seth Kalback

Arnav Shah

KEEP YOUR TOWN CLEAN!Aimée Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for opportunities for self-enrichment, she finds plenty to like as a newcomer to the detestable backwater town of Bléville: small-minded parochialism, self-interested parish politics, rampant corruption, dormant grudges, scandals just waiting to be uncovered - yes, there's a killing to be made here. So Aimée starts to wreak her stylish mayhem on Blévillie's despicable bourgeoisie. But just when she's ready to take them all to the cleaners, something snaps, and the master manipulator falls prey to her wayward passions.A legend of the genre, Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern crime thriller into something slick, chic and riotously enjoyable. A tornado of redemptive murder and a gleeful satire of small-town life, Fatale is Manchette's bloodiest, funniest and most brilliantly cathartic thriller yet.

Fatale

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