The Dead of Summer
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ISBN: 0156033739 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, January 2009
Seven years after the 1986 killings of three children, Anita Naidu, who at the age of thirteen had been the only witness to the crime, recounts to a police psychologist the details of the murders, the sinister events that occur beneath the surface of the ordinary, and the relationship between three teenage misfits--Anita, Kyle, and Denis. A first novel. Reprint.
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At thirteen, Anita Naidu 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 exposes the savagery of the schoolyard one chilling detail at a time until the truth reveals itself with startling ferocity. Set against the bustling, tourist-packed streets of historic Greenwich, this audacious debut examines sinister events that happen, quite literally, right below the surface. An irresistibly disturbing thriller for fans of A.M.Homes and Mary Gaitskill.
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