First sentence:"Nancy Underhill's death had been unexpected, abrupt -- a death like a slap in the face."
Description:
"A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son– fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill–vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain."
My thoughts:
This book was a good mix of mystery and horror. I liked how the point of view switched from Mark while he was obsessed with the house and his uncle Tim trying to figure out what happened to his nephew.
Date read: 9/17/2007
Book #: 84
Genre: Horror/Mystery
Rating: 3* = good
ISBN-10: 0449149919
ISBN-13: 9780449149911
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Year: 2004
# of Pages: 368
Binding: Paperback
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