Last Night in Montreal
20 August 2026Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Last Night in Montreal is literary crime fiction of the highest order' - The Sunday Times
Lila has always been an enigma. When she disappears without trace, her lover Eli follows a mysterious trail of correspondence to Montreal, where he hopes to discover the truth. But this isn't the first time Lilia has disappeared, or someone has tried to find her . . .
Last Night in Montreal, the stunning debut novel from the bestselling author of Station Eleven, is a breathtakingly plotted and intelligent game of cat-and-mouse; between lovers, between detectives and trails, and of lost people attempting to capture the elusive truth of their own lives.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Details
20 August 2026
9781035097968Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Last Night in Montreal is literary crime fiction of the highest order. It is unusual to encounter a novel that so vividly creates a sense of life on the run . . . Intense and lyrical, the novel asks unsettling questions about who is the real victim of the tragedy that looms over the characters.
Mandel is an exuberant storyteller
Finely wrought . . . What we're made to ponder is the mystery of human connection: how it is born, how it fades and dies and revives, how love defines us or leaves us undone
Taut, gripping . . . elegantly compelling
