Sébastien Japrisot is a brilliant master of the psychological detective. His works captivate the reader not so much through the depiction of bloody crimes as through an expertly crafted plot and an ever-present mystery whose solution always amazes the reader with its unpredictability.
In the novel “A Killer Summer,” the author constructs the story around a fatal chain of circumstances that falls upon the main heroine, who tries to uncover the secret of her birth.