End of Summer: The international bestselling, award-winning crime book you must read this year

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title End of Summer: The international bestselling, award-winning crime book you must read this year
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anders de la Motte
SeriesSeasons Quartet
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:496
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Crime and mystery
Thriller/suspense
ISBN/Barcode 9781785768231
ClassificationsDewey:839.738
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Zaffre
Imprint Zaffre
Publication Date 19 August 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'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?

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

'An absorbing crime novel with an atmospheric setting, strong characters, and a suspenseful plot. With End of Summer, Anders de la Motte has proven himself to be one of Sweden's most talented crime fiction authors' - Erik Axl Sund 'An utterly brilliant crime novel! So delicate and perceptive, and at the same time so endlessly thrilling ' - Kristina Ohlsson 'What you have in your hands is a masterpiece of crime fiction, a very hot competitor for this year's thriller . . . Anders de la Motte proves once again with his End of Summer that he is one of Scandinavia's most ingenious crime writers, just as grand as Jussi Adler-Olsen. He writes absolutely murderously. His books are definitely unbeatable in terms of suspense' - Literaturmarkt, Germany 'An atmospherical dense book reminiscent of Henning Mankell's early crime novels . . . Anders de la Motte writes profoundly without the tension dwindling for a second' - Petra Magazine 'A Swedish-set crime thriller for fans of the hugely successful CWA Gold Dagger-winning The Dry by Jane Harper . . . A gripping crime novel that moves between two narratives at a terrific clip, populated by vivid characters, with more twists along the way than you can shake a stick at. Crime fiction at its best' - Vaseem Khan