Lost Summer

by Stuart Harrison

Suspense, intrigue and a classic love triangle set against the brooding atmosphere of a remote tarn in the Lake District, from the author of STILL WATER. Teenage Adam is uprooted from London to Cumbria when his stepfather gets a job as a forestry manager. Seen as an outsider by the locals, Adam struggles to make friends, but succeeds with David and Angela. Yet when a young girl disappears the community closes rank, and Adam is left with no-one to share his suspicions with. As soon as he can, he leaves. Years later, and Adam is a successful investigative journalist. He's offered the chance to follow up an accident in which three young ecological protesters were killed, when the official version doesn't quite answer all the facts. He doesn't tell his editor that he knows the forest only too well...

Genres: Thriller, Fiction

576 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

I was born in 1958 in Northamptonshire, England. Left school at 16 with no particular distinction and moved to New Zealand in 1980 where I subsequently worked in a variety of occupations until I began writing novels at the age of thirty seven. Three were universally rejected until The Snow Falcon was bought by publishers in sixteen countries in 1999 and went on to become a bestseller. At the time I was living in England again and during the next few years lived in Ireland and Australia before returning to New Zealand where I now live with my family in the Bay Of Islands.

Reviews

[Dora Okeyo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved this book because of three things:
1: The main Character, Adam Turner, is presented as a man who is looking for answers that none can provide him, except his past and his three friends- David, Nick and Graham.
2: The story picks pace as it goes-you meet Adam, his wife Louise-who later on divorces him because he's obsessed with his work-and then Karen and his friends from his past.
3: The dialogues are well written.

[Philip Weyers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good detective mystery, very good read!

[Susan Davidson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn't think I would enjoy this book as much as his previous ones, but it held me until the end.

[Neil Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good story,enjoyed to the end.