num_pages: 297
description: When she was little, everyone called her “the Devigne girl,” and at nursery school she was Eliane Devigne, and at the school in Le Brusquet, too. She never knew that wasn’t her real name until we took her to Grenoble to see an oculist.Eliane, nicknamed Elle, was ten when she learned the truth about her name and birth. Traumatized and blindly obsessed, she sets out to discover and annihilate the rapists who victimized her mother. With deadly purpose—and yet with a curious innocence—Elle picks up clues, patches together evidence, and bewitches a family of three brothers, marrying one of them as part of her scheme for revenge. This spine-chilling tale of a woman caught in the grip of overwhelming and destructive emotions builds to a climax of almost unbearable poignancy.
language: English
title: One Deadly Summer
titlecomplete: One Deadly Summer
genres: Literature, Crime, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, France, Psychological Thriller, Fiction, French Literature, Mystery
ratings_count: 800
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Martin Beck Award, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Prix des Deux-Magots
publisher: Penguin Books