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End of Summer
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Series: Seasons Quartet
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‘For fans of the hugely successful CWA Gold Dagger-winning The Dry by Jane Harper’ - Vaseem Khan
‘One of Sweden's most talented crime fiction authors’ - Erik Axl Sund
You can always go home. But you can never go back...
Summer 1983: Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call him in, Billy has disappeared. Never to be seen again.
Today: Veronica is a bereavement counsellor. She's never fully come to terms with her mother's suicide after her brother Billy's disappearance. When a young man walks into her group, he looks familiar and talks about the trauma of his friend's disappearance in 1983. Could Billy still be alive after all this time?
Needing to know the truth, Veronica goes home - to the place where her life started to fall apart.
But is she really prepared for the answers that wait for her there?
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End of Summer
‘For fans of the hugely successful CWA Gold Dagger-winning The Dry by Jane Harper’ - Vaseem Khan ‘One of Sweden's most talented crime fiction authors’ - Erik Axl Sund You can always go home. But you can never go back... Summer 1983: Four-year-old Billy chases a rabbit in the fields behind his house. But when his mother goes to call...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Knausgaard unearths the mysteries of the commonplace. — Observer In Summer, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about long days full of sunlight, eating ice cream with his children, lawn sprinklers, and...PaperbackSold Out
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End of Summer by Anders de la Motte is praised as an absorbing and atmospheric crime novel with strong characters and a suspenseful plot. Critics describe it as a masterpiece of crime fiction, comparing it to the works of Henning Mankell and Jussi Adler-Olsen. The novel is noted for its delicate and perceptive writing, delivering endless thrills and maintaining tension throughout.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781785768231
Publisher: Zaffre
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 August 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Zaffre
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 364g
Pages: 496
About the Author
ANDERS DE LA MOTTE is the bestselling author of the 'Seasons Quartet'; the first three books of which have all been number one bestsellers in Sweden and have been shortlisted for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Anders, a former police officer, has already won a Swedish Academy Crime Award for his debut, Game, in 2010 and his second standalone, The Silenced, in 2015. To date, the first three books in the 'Seasons Quartet' have published over half a million copies. Set in southern Sweden, all four books are standalones.
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