João Tordo - A Noite em Que o Verão Acabou

September 14, 1998. The day Chatlam, a small American town, awoke in shock at the murder of Noah Walsh. The prime suspect: his sixteen-year-old daughter. In the summer of 1987, teenager Pedro Taborda falls in love with Laura Walsh, the eldest daughter of a New York tycoon. She and Levi – a mysterious child – spend their holidays with their parents in Lagoeiro, a quiet Algarve town. Wealthy and modern, the Walsh family has everything to make a name for themselves in southern Portugal. Intoxicated by Laura's perfect figure and daring ways, Pedro finds his first love in the American girl. But when the summer ends, the Walsh family returns to the United States, and destiny remains unfulfilled.

Ten years later, Pedro, determined to become a writer, goes to study in New York. Fascinated by Gary List, the former prodigy of American literature, he arrives in the United States determined to pursue his youthful dreams. Upon reuniting with Laura, he is far from suspecting that this chance encounter will plunge him into the most talked-about crime of the nineties, the murder of millionaire Noah Walsh.

With a second homicide complicating the investigation and a race to save sixteen-year-old Levi, accused of killing her father, Pedro and Laura become irrevocably entangled in the web of secrets surrounding the Walsh family, from the 1940s to the unthinkable outcome in the first decades of the new millennium.

Because in Chatlam – and in this unstoppable thriller – nothing is what it seems.