The summer of Katya - Trevanian

First came the shame.
Next came the secret. Then the passion.
Last, the horror...

In a small Basque country town in the summer of 1914, a shattering love affair begins for Jean-Marc Montjean when he encounters Katya, a beautiful but mysterious visitor from Paris.

The young provincial doctor is hopelessly besotted. Advice from his older and wiser colleague goes unheeded; warnings from Katya’s cynical twin brother, the custodian of his family’s nightmare, are ignored.

And Montjean finds himself totally out of his depth, a naïve player in a remorseless tragedy of mounting horror.

Gripping and haunting,

The Summer of Katya

is both a compelling mystery and a moving story of doomed passions. It is a brilliant tour de force by a master novelist at the height of his powers.