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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
His work uses thriller structures to tell stories of families under pressure, featuring recognizable, initially low-stakes scenarios that morph into gripping tales where everything is on the line.
He co-created the HBO Europe miniseries Hackerville and worked in the writers’ room on Deutschland 83. As a journalist he has written for the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, GQ, and numerous travel magazines. He also works as a news reporter at Deutsche Welle in Berlin.
His debut novel Foreign Bodies (working title) explores just how wrong an American family vacation can go in Paris. (Very, very wrong.)
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
His work uses thriller structures to tell stories of families under pressure, featuring recognizable, initially low-stakes scenarios that morph into gripping tales where everything is on the line.
He co-created the HBO Europe miniseries Hackerville and worked in the writers’ room on Deutschland 83. As a journalist he has written for the New York Times, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, GQ, and numerous travel magazines. He also works as a news reporter at Deutsche Welle in Berlin.
His debut novel Foreign Bodies (working title) explores just how wrong an American family vacation can go in Paris. (Very, very wrong.)
Author: Ralph Martin
Genres: Psychological Thriller
Seven days in Paris. One missing man. A family with something to hide.
A gripping psychological thriller set during a relentless Paris heatwave. Jake Shaw expects a difficult week with his visiting family, but the arrival of his wild-child sister’s charming, volatile new boyfriend pushes simmering tensions past breaking point. As sightseeing plans sour and old resentments resurface, the cramped apartment becomes a pressure cooker. By mid-week, Pierre has vanished. Days later, his body is pulled from the Seine.
Taut, unsettling, and simmering with tension, where every interaction feels charged, every silence suspicious, and moments of dark humour cut through the heat.
For readers of Liane Moriarty and Chris Pavone, and to those drawn to family-driven suspense and psychological tension, where loyalty, memory, and guilt collide with devastating consequences.