
The Summer House
A Thriller
Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · May 18, 2021
When seven murder victims are found in a small-town lake house, the homicide investigation shakes a local sheriff to her core in this gripping thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.
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- Who it’s for
- Military and police procedure meet in a tense Georgia murder investigation full of uneasy questions.
- Genres
- Military Thrillers, Police Procedurals, Suspense
- Published
- Little, Brown and Company, May 18, 2021
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When seven murder victims are found in a small-town lake house, the homicide investigation shakes a local sheriff to her core in this gripping thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author. Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers—known as the Night Ninjas—recently returned from Afghanistan.
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To ensure that justice is done, the Army sends Major Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former NYPD cop, to investigate. But the major and his elite team arrive in sweltering Georgia with no idea their grim jobs will be made exponentially more challenging by local law enforcement, who resists the Army's intrusion and stonewall them at every turn. As Cook and his squad struggle to uncover the truth behind the condemning evidence, the pieces just won't fit—and forces are rallying to make certain damning secrets die alongside the victims in the murder house. With his own people in the crosshairs, Cook takes a desperate gamble to find answers—even if it means returning to a hell of his own worst nightmares ...
Clashing Investigations
Military and police procedure meet in a tense Georgia murder investigation full of uneasy questions.
Come here for
- A tense collision between military investigators and a resistant local sheriff’s office
- A murder case where the evidence refuses to line up
Expect
- A sustained, hard-edged thriller built around competing investigations
- Suspense shaped by buried secrets and evidence that won’t fit
Where it sits
| Military Thrillers | 77% |
|---|---|
| Police Procedurals | 42% |
| Suspense | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Suspense
- Crime Fiction
- Military Thrillers
- Authors
- James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- May 18, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure