Death in Summer

Name: Death in Summer
Author: William Trevor
ISBN: 9781440621130

William Trevor

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Death in Summer

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#2658 of 8,085 books · #845 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1998).

Death in Summer was a New York Times bestseller and was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, sudden and quite unexpected, leaving her husband, Thaddeus, haunted by the details of her last afternoon. The next death came some weeks later, after Thaddeus's mother-in-law helped him to interview for a nanny to bring up their baby. None of the applicants were suitable—least of all the last one, with her sharp features, her shabby clothes that reeked of cigarettes, her badly typed references—so Letitia's mother moved herself in. But then, just as the household was beginning to settle down, the last of the nannies surprisingly returned, her unwelcome arrival heralding the third of the summer tragedies.

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