Five Days in Summer

Name: Five Days in Summer
Rating: 4.199413299560547 (341 reviews)

Katia Lief

Jan 2011 · Blue Table Books

4.2

341 reviews

Ebook

280

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

"Mesmerizing...Your heart will be pounding long after you've turned the final page." --Lisa Gardner

SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RIGHT BACK...Before the long drive home from vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker made a quick run to the grocery store...and disappeared.When her car is found abandoned in the parking lot, her husband, Will, turns to a retired FBI profiler named John Geary for help.As her family scours the Cape for her, Emily's thoughts are not on her own safety. Kept helpless in a madman's lair, she watches him prepare a five-day countdown that will bring him to his real victim-her young son.

"I put Five Days in Summer aside only once...to make sure my doors were locked." --Barbara Parker

"A gripping, poignant portrait of an innocent family caught in a nightmare of evil." -Anne Frazier

"Five Days has it all-an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler, and the scariest killer you'll never want to meet." --Leslie Glass

"Strikes terror into a lazy summer day." --Donna Anders

"Taut, clean storytelling." -Publishers Weekly

Ratings and reviews

4.2

341 reviews

Sue Coletta

October 3, 2013

Katia Lief is a beautiful writer and a mesmerizing storyteller. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to "escape and melt within the pages, get scooped up in a fabulous world of Katia's making." It is suspenseful, fearful, sensitive, and even loving. A great read for anyone! She really hit this one out of the ballpark!

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A Google user

October 20, 2012

A wonderfully well written book! I couldn't wait and yet didn't want to know whether Sammy was hurt or even killed horribly! I certainly didn't want Emily to end as the other Mother had. I felt so proud of David. What a wonderful young man!

A Google user

August 30, 2012

As a mother with a 9 y/o little boy, I was appauled and unbelievably creeped out by this story... but I couldn't stop reading it! I just had to find out what happened next. Katia Lief is an amazing author.

About the author

Katia Lief is the international bestselling author of numerous crime novels, including most recently A Map of the Dark (pseudonymously as Karen Ellis). She teaches fiction writing at The New School in Manhattan, and lives with her family in Brooklyn. Learn more at katialief.com

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