Thriller
The Heatwave
2020·352 pages
A mother returns to her French family villa during a scorching summer, confronting buried secrets and the specter of her enigmatic late daughter.
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A mother returns to her French family villa during a scorching summer, confronting buried secrets and the specter of her enigmatic late daughter.
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Under the scorching French sun, a tense homecoming unearths a long-buried family secret in this "sultry, gorgeously written" thriller of a mother's greatest fear brought to life (Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party and The Guest List ). 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 ...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Child death and menacing family events; wildfire peril; limited gore
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Brief 1968 Paris riots backdrop; not a political novel
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Toxic mother-daughter bond; manipulation; fear of a child; child death
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