Christine Mangan

Sep 9, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Christine Mangan

Christine Mangan’s latest novel, THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR, is set in the 1960s but feels like it exists outside the boundaries of time. It is easily the best book she has written since her stunning debut, TANGERINE, and is the literary equivalent of a classic Bogie and Bacall film. Henri, a Frenchman from Algeria, is approached by a woman in his train car who informs him that he is sitting in her seat. Even though they act like they have never met before, this is far from the truth.

Aug 20, 2023 | newspub.live | Christine Mangan

THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR, by Christine Mangan“Where large sums of money are concerned,” Agatha Christie once wisely observed, “it is advisable to trust nobody.” She also famously said, “Time is the best killer,” though the slippery slow burn of Christine Mangan’s “The Continental Affair” — which makes more than one pointed allusion to the dame’s oeuvre — might be better described as an elegant killer of time.

Aug 2, 2023 | thegloss.ie | Christine Mangan

I sat in front of a blank computer screen, deadline ticking away. There were only several months left before my next book was due to my publisher. My friends and family kept asking where I would set my new novel and I felt stalled, uncertain after several years spent in one place because of the pandemic, unable to imagine writing about places that I had once visited but which now seemed far away.

Aug 1, 2023 | arlingtonmagazine.com | Christine Mangan |Kiersten White |Temi Oh |Sarah MacLean

Round out your summer with a thriller set in 1960s Europe, a deep dive into the history of deep-sea exploration or a kids' book about the first T. Rex discovery. In heat like this, it’s hard to believe fall is just around the corner. Before month’s end, school will be back in session and pumpkin-spice-everything will return to grocery store shelves. But for now, there’s still summer reading to do.

Jul 23, 2023 | bigissue.com | Christine Mangan

The 6:41 to Paris by Jean-Philippe BlondelAn engaging psychological thriller about two lovers reunited years after an affair gone wrong. The question of will-they-or-won’t-they speak to one another looms as the train departs from the countryside, growing ever closer to Paris.