Beat the rise! Delivery fees are going up soon. INFO

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Wolves of Summer

Donna Freitas

$70.95   $64

Hardback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English
Soho Press
03 November 2026
A girl goes missing in a Rhode Island beach community, leaving everyone to wonder: Is there a monster among us? From the bestselling author of Her One Regret (Soho Crime, 2025). July 1979: The people of Bonnet Shores Beach Club are shaken to their core when local twelve-year-old Christina Grove doesn't come home one night. The tight-knit community is still reeling from a series of home invasions that plagued them last summer, and this new incident shatters their hope of a fresh start. Christina's older sister, Maddie, takes the disappearance especially hard and blames herself for sending her little sister home alone through the woods on her bike. Everyone shows up to help find the missing girl: from Bonnet royalty - like Joan Mancini, whose husband's family owns the beach club - to working-class neighbours who pick up donuts and coffee for the search parties. Maddie Grove has suspicions of her own that lead her to take ever more dangerous risks despite her mother s fears of losing a second daughter. Meanwhile, another local, Cricket Kelly, takes it upon herself to investigate the unsavoury characters of Bonnet in an attempt to both find Christina and come to terms with her own teenage trauma. The Groves' neighbour, twenty-one-year-old criminal justice student Diana Gonz¤lez is just getting her start working part-time at the Narragansett Police Department and jumps in to help with Christina's case. Diana knows there's more to Bonnet than carefree nights of flashlight tag and bonfires up in the dunes, and she suspects an ugly reality: This isn t a case of a childhood runaway. Someone who pitched in to help with the search for Christina is likely responsible for her disappearance. A riveting story about lost childhood, female friendship, trauma, and redemption, the second Ocean State Novel takes a hard look at violence against women and girls in a beach town where the wolves are always circling.
By:  
Imprint:   Soho Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781641298612
ISBN 10:   1641298618
Pages:   480
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Donna Freitas is the author of Her One Regret, the first Ocean State novel, as well as The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano, published in twenty languages, two memoirs, and over a dozen novels for children and young adults. She has a PhD in Gender Studies and Religion and teaches creative writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines, and she has been interviewed on The Today Show, CNN, and All Things Considered. A native Rhode Islander, she splits her time between the US and Barcelona.

Reviews for Wolves of Summer

Praise for Donna Freitas “Freitas addresses a topic little discussed in fiction—that of regretting motherhood—with compassion, demonstrating the consequences of her characters’ choices while also delivering a fingernails-bitten-to-the-quick mystery.” —Sarah Weinman, The New York Times “This book manages to be simultaneously a page-turning crime thriller and a deep exploration of one of the ultimate mothering taboos—regret. Absolutely extraordinary.” —Emily Oster, bestselling author of Expecting Better “Donna Freitas proves she can ‘say the unsayable’ and weave thorny, important questions about women’s lives into a compelling, entertaining, and provocative suspense novel.” —Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of The Deepest Lake “This gripping, character-driven thriller kept me reading late into the night.” —Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat “Engaging. And thought-provoking. I could not put it down. This book is brilliant, subversive, enjoyable, and deeply revelatory about the inner lives of women and mothers.” —Lyz Lenz, author of This American Ex-Wife “Smart, addictive, utterly compelling and shockingly honest—a page turner with a deep, emotional core. So many brilliant observations about women’s lives—this book made me feel so seen, while it kept me guessing.” —Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable


See Also