02065cam a2200289 4500 436685605 TxAuBib 20200929120000.0 200804s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2020017761 9781538718018 HRD 27.00 1538718014 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib Riordan, Kate. The heatwave [BOOK] : a novel / Kate Riordan. First Grand Central Publishing edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. 344 pages ; 24 cm. "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 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". 20200929. Daughters Death Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. France Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Psychological fiction.