Exceptionally entertaining. . . . The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith. . . . This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. [Lasdun] deserves to find more readers on these shores. -- New York Times Book Review
Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations. -- Wall Street Journal
Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . . The Fall Guy is a twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller. -- Boston Globe
Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal. -- Lionel Shriver - Financial Times
Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York. There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller, but it's the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing. -- People
As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun's combustible psychological thriller. -- Entertainment Weekly
Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked. -- Seattle Review of Books
[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way. -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
