The Heatwave

Informationen zum Autor Kate Riordan is a writer and journalist. She is an avid reader of Daphne du Maurier and Agatha Christie, both of whom have influenced her writing. She lives in the Cotswolds, where she writes full-time. Her previous novels include The Girl In The Photograph, The Shadow Hour , The Stranger and The Heatwave , which was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Summer Fever is her fifth novel. Klappentext Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in Provence, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a sweltering summer marked by unusual fires across the countryside, she returns to La Reverie with her youngest daughter Emma in tow. In every corner of the house, Sylvie can't escape the spectre of Elodie, her first child. Elodie with the golden hair. Elodie, who knew exactly how to get what she wanted. Elodie, whose death the villagers still whisper about. As the fires creep even closer towards the villa, it's clear to Sylvie that something isn't right at La Reverie. Because there's something that Sylvie hasn't admitted about what happened to Elodie ten summers ago . . . Zusammenfassung Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead. When Sylvie receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in Provence, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a sweltering summer marked by unusual fires across the countryside, she returns to La Reverie with her youngest daughter Emma in tow. In every corner of the house, Sylvie can't escape the spectre of Elodie, her first child. Elodie with the golden hair. Elodie, who knew exactly how to get what she wanted. Elodie, whose death the villagers still whisper about. As the fires creep even closer towards the villa, it's clear to Sylvie that something isn't right at La Reverie. Because there's something that Sylvie hasn't admitted about what happened to Elodie ten summers ago . . . ...

Product details

• Authors: Kate Riordan, Riordan Kate
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.05.2019
• EAN: 9781405922623
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-2262-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: 202 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Provence, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Holidays, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, France, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic, Thriller / suspense, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)