Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of colour, good humour and easy living in drab 1950s Léopoldville, and soon Louise is working there as a maid.
But once she is under her new employers' roof their model life starts to fall apart - painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear and a dark obsession begins to grow, which will end in murder...
- Dripping with tension and yearning, Crush is a chilling Fifties suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession - and the slippery slope to murder.
Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) wrote a great number of works, using either his own name or that of one of his numerous aliases - especially San-Antonio, with a total of over 220 million copies sold.
"The French master of Noir." The Observer
"Unsettling... worthy of Agatha Christie at her devious best... classic French noir." Guardian
"Hugely atmospheric." The Times
"Disturbing from the outset with strong echoes of Simenon." Sunday Times