The Last Summer of the Camperdowns: A Novel [Paperback]

Kellys novel is a coming-of-age meets a whodunit& A laugh-out-loud funny page turner.The plot unfolds like the Cape Cod season itself& beginning lazily, languidly, before heating up and morphing into a fast-paced thriller.A wonderful novel is like an orchid: smooth, creamy, full of unexpected crevasses. The more you look at it, the more surprising it is.Riveting& Riddle perfectly narrates the events of one crazy, harrowing summer against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1970s. Written with cutting wit and intensity; it doesnt get any better than this.Kellys new novel is just as scathingly witty as her best-selling debut but better plotted and even more emotionally harrowing& Kelly skillfully builds almost unbearable tension, slipping in plenty of dark laughs en route to a wrenching climax that leaves in its wake some painfully unresolved questionsjust like life. More fine work from a writer with a rare gift for blending wit and rue.There was no putting down this book. Elizabeth Kellys rivetingThe best-selling author ofKellys raucous, deliciously creepy novel about the dysfunction of the ?ber wealthy begins in 1972 as the hoity-toity Camperdown clan prepare for another summer of horseback riding, fox hunting, and hors doeuvres in their cushy Cape Cod enclave... Kelly (These vibrant personalities jump off the page individually, and the collective dynamic is as lifelike and scintillating as beautifully cast actors in an artfully directed play& the scenes and dialogue unravel organically, and razor-sharp witticisms tumble out effortlessly.Twelve-year-old Riddle James Camperdown witnesses a crime that will change her life and lives of those around her. A story about the family ties, the quest for status, and the secrets that kill.[Kelly] takes readers to the Cape of the early 1970s. The narrator, a 12-year-old Wellfleet girl with eccentric Me Decade parentsher mother a retired movie star and her father a candidate for Congressis plunged beneathl3œ