by Sébastien Japrisot · France-Loisirs · tapa dura · ISBN 9782724203073
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«L'été meurtrier» is the psychological suspense novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by France-Loisirs in hardback (334 pages, in French).
Set in the 1970s, the story follows Elle, a newcomer who arouses the interest of the village men. Fiorimond, a local mechanic, is fascinated by her; after a single date, Elle moves in with him and his family. While he wonders if he has done the right thing, he is unaware that she harbours a plan: to avenge a crime from the past.
Originally published in 1977, the novel won the Prix des Deux-Magots in 1978 and the Martin Beck Award in 1981.
For readers of psychological suspense and French crime fiction, with a rural story set in the seventies.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
