The story is narrated by 30-year-old murder detective Adam Robert Ryan. It tingles on your skin with BMX wind in your face, ladybug feet up your arm it packs every breath full of mown grass and billowing wash lines it chimes and fountains with birdcalls, bees, leaves and football-bounces and skipping-chants, One! two! three! This summer will never end.” This summer explodes on your tongue tasting of chewed blades of long grass, your own clean sweat, Marie biscuits with butter squirting through the holes and shaken bottles of red lemonade picnicked in tree houses. “…this is summer full-throated and extravagant in a hot pure silkscreen blue. French begins by describing the summer when a pivotal crime takes place: This debut novel won the Anthony, Macavity, Barry, and Edgar Awards, and I thought they were well-deserved.Īlthough this is a police procedural mystery, it has literary qualities uncommon in the genre.
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