End of Summer
- Author Anders de la Motte
- Narrator Julie Maisey
- Publisher Bonnier Books UK
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 11 hours and 32 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
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?
Critics Review
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
An utterly brilliant crime novel! So delicate and perceptive, and at the same time so endlessly thrilling
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
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
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
A fantastic read. Atmospheric, beautifully written, with strong characters and with a really compelling mystery that made it incredibly hard to put down when I really needed sleep! A real triumph
End of Summer is captivating from beginning to end, an evocative story of family secrets set in the broad open landscapes of southern Sweden – prepare to fall in love with Scandinavian fiction all over again
Each layer of this story reveals itself like the tilling of the soil with a brooding threat of summer rain close at hand. End of Summer is a delectable slice of unmissable rural noir where a dark harvest blossoms from the seeds of a terrible past
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