Layers of deception are gradually peeled
away, revealing the shocking truth. This beautifully crafted novel superbly
employs misdirection in the tale of Melissa Sweet, a critical care nurse
struggling to get back on her feet after causing the death of an infant.
Then, a
series of brutal acts of violence occur as Melissa desperately tries to
discover who targeted her loved ones. I read compulsively to the end when
the answer wowed me.
On the dark side of town, what's past is never really past. And what's buried is never really dead.
Melissa Sweet is in a delicate state. She's a clinical nurse in a small southern town who, after a career-ending accident and the accusations of foul play that followed, is just now starting to put her life back together. She's got her mom, her troubled brother, and her fiancé Jack to keep her grounded, and right now she's taking life one uneasy day at a time. But tormented by a harrowing act of violence, she makes an impulsive move that changes…
I love reading about true crime. This
extensively researched, gripping account of a San Francisco man who embarked on
a horrific murder spree in the winter of 1926 ticked all the boxes for a
terrifying thrill ride.
Before there was Ted Bundy, before there was Jeffrey
Dahmer, Earle Leonard Nelson was the monster who haunted the public's darkest
nightmares.
I'm a former newspaper reporter who
covered many crime stories, but never one like this. For a true account of
murder and mayhem, Bestial delivers the goods.
Known for meticulously researched and brilliantly detailed accounts of horrific true crime legends, Harold Schechter takes readers inside the very heart and mind of true evil. As an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to unsettle his elders. As a child he was unnaturally obsessed with the Bible; before he reached puberty, he had an insatiable, aberrant sex drive. By his teens, even Earle's own family had reason to fear him. But no one in the bone-chilling winter of 1926 could have predicted his degeneracy would erupt into a sixteen-month frenzy of savage rape, barbaric murder, and unimaginable defilement…
When recovering addict Mallory Quinn is
given the job of live-in nanny for a shy little boy who loves to draw, she soon
begins to notice that things aren't quite right.
Despite her employers'
generosity and her new surroundings in a picture-perfect upscale community, Mallory
senses that her young charge's parents are hiding something from her, something
that could turn out to be deadly.
I love mysteries, particularly those of
the paranoic, things-are-not-what-they-seem variety. Hidden Pictures kept me
guessing until the mind-blowing big reveal.
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“I loved it." —Stephen King
From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.
Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and…
Aimee Trapnell reluctantly leaves her apartment on Manhattan’s Central Park West to return to her childhood home in Georgia for her father’s ninetieth birthday. Also on hand are her two brothers, wily Marsh and ne’er-do-well Trainor. With a forty-billion-dollar inheritance at stake, they’re willing to do whatever it takes to make the old man happy.
To their shock, they learn that their father wants to kill someone for his birthday. He doesn’t care who it is. He just wants to know what it’s like to commit murder.
