by Agnete Friis · tapa dura · ISBN 9781616959951
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«The Summer of Ellen» is the suspense novel by Agnete Friis, published by Soho Crime in hardcover (312 pages, in English).
Jacob, an architect in the midst of divorce, receives a call from his nonagenarian great-uncle, who still lives on the family farm in Jutland and asks him to find out what became of Ellen. Jacob must reconstruct the summer of 1978, marked by his adolescent obsession with Ellen, a hippie from a commune, and by the unsolved disappearance of his best friend's sister.
Translated from the Danish by Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov, it was originally published as «Sommeren med Ellen». It is a standalone novel set in rural Denmark.
Will appeal to readers of psychological suspense and Scandinavian crime fiction, with a dual timeline between the present and 1978.
Agnete Friis is a Danish writer who is best known for co-authoring Drengen i kufferten, or The Boy in the Suitcase with Lene Kaaberbøl. The book was short-listed for the Scandinavian Glass Key Award, competing against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and received the 2008 Harald Mogensen award for best crime novel.
