The Last Summer of the Camperdowns

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The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
400 pages; Liveright
In The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, by Elizabeth Kelly, Riddle is the privileged only daughter of a politician and an icy, self-centered former actress—parents who never put her first. The plot unfolds like the Cape Cod season itself—beginning lazily, languidly, before heating up and morphing into a fast-paced thriller.
— Abbe Wright