The last summer of the Camperdowns

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Summary: Riddle James Camperdown expects the summer of 1972 to be sunkissed and lazy, and she plans to spend it sipping iced tea and reading Trixie Belden at her Cape Cod home, ducking her parents' high-voltage banter whenever possible. Her father, Godfrey "Camp" Camperdown, is a World War II hero turned idealistic union politician running for office from the family compound in Wellfleet. Her mother, Greer, is his perfect foil: a former Hollywood actress armed with a razor-sharp wit, a French manicure, and a wicked one-liner for every occasion. One day, to her shock, Riddle accidentally stumbles upon a crime in a neighbor's barn. Unsure of what she's witnessed, she chooses to keep quiet, but her secret grows more and more dangerous, and the cracks in her family's facade begin to show. As Camp's political campaign heats up, another powerful family--cunning and capable Michael Devlin and his bewitching son Harry--emerges with an uneasy connection to the Camperdown clan, and the stakes are raised even further. With every day that passes, the crime looms larger, the silence heavier, and the trail of consequences for Riddle and her family ever more tangled as she scrambles for the courage to admit the truth before her family falls apart