London: Harper. Very Good. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading and cover corner creases, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; First printing of Harper mass market paperback original edition, 2007. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover image courtesy of Photolibrary. ; 240 pages; Anita's mother has just died. The family have moved to a new town, a new home, and a new neighbourhood. It was hot everywhere that year and the long summer stretched ahead. Kyle lives across the road from Anita. He says the area is peppered with old hidden, disused mines, a perfect playground for bored kids with nothing to do. There were four of them - Kyle, Anita, Denis and Katie. By the end of that summer there would be only one... .

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**DEBUT FICTION** "Admit how your pulse quickens when you see those headlines: murder spree of schoolgirl loner; boy, 13, rapes classmate; child, 10, stabs pensioner." So says narrator Anita Naidu, and she should know. At thirteen, Anita was the sole witness to London’s notorious cave murders of 1986, which left three children dead. Told seven years later to the police psychologist who interviewed her at the time of the killings, Anita’s story reveals the savagery of the schoolyard one chilling detail at a time until the truth of what actually happened reveals itself with startling ferocity. Set against the bustling, tourist-packed streets of historic Greenwich, this novel examines sinister events that happen, quite literally, right below the surface. An audacious debut, The Dead of Summer is written in spare, evocative prose with remarkable psychological acuity and the daring to examine the dark, intensely fragile point between childhood and adolescence, and the morbid impulses of those mutable years.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 34588
Title: The Dead Of Summer
Author: Way, Camilla
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0007858272
ISBN 13: 9780007858279
Publisher: Harper
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2007
Keywords: Mass Market PB
Bookseller catalogs: Thrillers;

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