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The Heatwave
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Kate Riordan
Subgenres:
- Psychological Thriller,
- Domestic Thriller,
- South of France
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychological thrillers set in sultry, fire-ravaged French countryside
- Stories where a mother's fear for her child drives every page
- Haunted family homes with secrets that refuse to stay buried
From Little Stack
Sultry, evocative and alluring, The Heatwave is a scorching summer read full of dark family secrets. Sylvie and her 14-year-old daughter, Emma, return to La Reverie, Sylvie’s family home in the south of France. It’s the first time they’ve returned since the death of Sylvie’s oldest daughter, Elodie, a tragedy that is shrouded in mystery. But the house feels haunted, echoes of the truth living in its walls like a ghost and Elodie’s presence seems to be getting stronger. As Emma begins to ask questions, Sylvie is scared she’s starting to remember and her family will be shattered once again.
Under the scorching French sun, a tense homecoming unearths a long-buried family secret in this thriller of a mother's greatest fear brought to life. Elodie was beautiful. Elodie was smart. Elodie was manipulative. Elodie is dead.
When Sylvie Durand receives a letter calling her back to her crumbling family home in the South of France, she knows she has to go. In the middle of a sweltering 1990's summer marked by unusual fires across the countryside, she returns to La Reverie with her youngest daughter Emma in tow, ignoring the deep sense of dread she feels for this place she's long tried to forget.
As memories of the events that shattered their family a decade earlier threaten to come to the surface, Sylvie struggles to shield Emma from the truth of what really happened all those years ago. In every corner of the house, Sylvie can't escape the specter of Elodie, her first child. Elodie, born amid the '68 Paris riots with one blue eye and one brown, and mysteriously dead by fourteen. Elodie, who reminded the small village of one of those Manson girls. Elodie who knew exactly how to get what she wanted.
As the fires creep towards the villa, it's clear to Sylvie that something isn't quite right at La Reverie... And there is a much greater threat closer to home.
Rich in unforgettable characters, The Heatwave alternates between the past and present, grappling with what it means to love and fear a child in equal measure. With the lush landscape and nostalgia of a heady vacation read, Kate Riordan has woven a gripping page-turner with gorgeous prose that turns the idea of a summer novel on its head.
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