Shadows On A Wall

A limousine is discovered at the bottom of a river. Inside are the bodies of two world famous Hollywood stars, a young film director and a famous rock musician. Meanwhile not far away a movie about Napoleon is massively over-budget and the producer has gone missing...

Part mystery, part black-comedy, Shadows On A Wall is also a love story of many parts: there is the screenwriter who writes a role for his girl friend and sees it taken from her; the producer who is desperate to please his French wife, a former sex-star; and the growing friendship between an English schoolgirl actress and a young film editor. Mainly, though, Shadows On A Wall is the story of people in love with movies - and what really happens when they go on location.

Probably the best novel about movie making ever written' - Sunday Express,*****

'Bright and blackly funny - the War and Peace of Hollywood novels. Highly recommended' - New York Library Journal

'Shadows On A Wall belongs on that select shelf of good literature about Hollywood alongside Robert Stone’s Children Of The Light and Michael Tolkin’s The Player' - Washington Post

'Without doubt the best movie story I have ever read. A brilliant mixture of irony, comedy and pathos' - Publishing News.

'Satire...with a couple of back comedy surprises that would have delighted Alfred Hitchcock' - San Francisco Chronicle

'A smart, funny, knowing novel - this book would make a great movie' - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

'Shadows On A Wall - never falters. This bitter-sweet comedy about the making of a movie epic kept me engaged through every scene, laughing here, worrying there, fascinated always by the absurdity and the reality of it all. Epic and massively entertaining' - National Public Radio (US)

Darkly funny' - Seattle Times

'Readers will certainly delight in the roller coaster ride of action packed and tragic events'' – Booklist

'Hilarious - a wonderfully ironic black comedy' – Buzz

'Excellent - so accurate and so cutting is the portrait Connolly paints that even citizens of Tinseltown should give it the thumbs up' - Publishers Weekly

'Imagine The Player crossed with Reds and then throw in Hugh Grant and Quentin Tarantino. It's sure to wow 'em on the beaches' - Entertainment Weekly

'Connolly is both true to life and inventive. He knows how movie people behave and talk, and he knows how to tell a big story' - Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

'A delightful and irreverent sideswipe at Hollywood' - South China Morning Post