Description
Description
A dazzling new chilller from the bestselling author of KOKO and LOST BOY LOST GIRL.
Award-winning children's book author Willy Patrick seems to be having a breakdown. Figures from her past are coming to visit her, most frighteningly her dead daughter, Holly, who was murdered together with Willy's first husband. Then Willy discovers her mysterious fiancé may well have been responsible for the deaths of her husband and daughter.
After fleeing the house they are renovating she runs into Tim Underhill, also an author haunted by the deaths of loved ones. In fact, his long-deceased nine-year-old sister recently appeared to him on the way to his favourite diner, and he's been getting strange emails from people in his home town - none of whom are still alive. But what really spooks him is the realization that Willy seems to be the heroine of the book he is currently working on, in precisely the mortal peril he has invented for her...
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About the Author
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A chase novel and a metafictional fun ride that, like much of Straub's work, takes genre elements and twists them into something unexpected."--Time Out New York
"A twisting, fast-paced plot."--USA Today
"A brilliant work of horrific fantasy . . . Anyone looking for a good read providing plenty of thrills while doling out literary meditations on the nature of fantasy vs. reality won't find a better book."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"[A] brilliant novel . . . Moving briskly while ranging from high humor to the blackest dread, this is an original, astonishingly smart and expertly entertaining meditation on imagination and its powers; one of the very finest works of Straub's long career, it's a sure bet for future award nominations."--Publishers Weekly
"Popular fiction of an intriguingly high order, deftly exploring how imagination not only draws on reality but can actually shape it."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A fascinating jumble of fantasy and reality."--BookPage
"Straub's truly twisted talent for weirdness takes off into a full-blown hurricane of reality-bending, mind-boggling proportions. . . . This book will really unravel your brains. Definitely a must-read."--Realms of Fantasy "This must-read horror tale is simply incredible in every way. Tender, dark, and simmering with a wry irony that is just plain inspired, it's the perfect book for a cold autumn afternoon."--New Mystery Reader
"Yet another brilliant piece of work by a writer who should long ago have been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award."--Amazing Stories
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