Deeds of Autumn: The atmospheric international bestseller from the award-winning writer
By (Author) Anders de la Motte
Zaffre
Zaffre
17th January 2023
13th October 2022
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: police procedural
Fiction in translation
839.738
Paperback
432
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
315g
ONE TRAGIC NIGHT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
SOUTHERN SWEDEN, 1990
Five lifelong friends gather for a last farewell to their childhoods and each other at an abandoned quarry. The mood is effervescent, but under the surface tensions run deep as not everyone is ready to let go - or be left behind. When dawn breaks, only four remain alive. The police rule the death a tragic accident, but not everyone is convinced, and the incident remains an open wound in the community.
AUTUMN, 2017
When the old chief of police is replaced by Anna Vesper, a newly arrived detective from Stockholm, whispers and rumours about that night can no longer be silenced. Soon Anna is left with no choice but to ignore all warnings and reopen the case - while hoping her own sins won't catch up with her.
BUT SOMEONE WILL DO ANYTHING TO HIDE THE TRUTH . . .
PRAISE FOR ANDERS DE LA MOTTE
'Enthralling ... superb' - Joan Smith, Sunday Times
'Mesmerising ... addictive' - Lancashire Evening Post
'A Swedish-set crime thriller for fans of The Dry ... Crime fiction at its best' - Vaseem Khan
Anders de la Motte is the bestselling author of the Seasons Quartet; the first three books of which - End of Summer, Deeds of Autumn and Dead of Winter - have all been number one bestsellers in Sweden and have been shortlisted for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Anders, a former police officer, also won a Swedish Academy Crime Award for his debut, Game, in 2010 and for his second standalone novel, The Silenced, in 2015.
To date, the first three books in the Seasons Quartet have published over half a million copies. Set in southern Sweden, all four books can be read independently.