ISBN: 9781423304340

It has waited seven years for someone to come back to the rambling lakeside house called Pinecrest, which has stood empty since its last owner went missing. For upscale Chicago couple Dan… Mehr…

It has waited seven years for someone to come back to the rambling lakeside house called Pinecrest, which has stood empty since its last owner went missing. For upscale Chicago couple Dan and Merrill Brewster, the old midwestern manse is an ideal retreat, and for their kids, Eric and Marci, it's the perfect place to spend a lazy summer exploring. Which is how Eric and his teenage friends discover the curious cache of discarded objects stowed in a hidden room of Pinecrest's carriage house. The bladeless hacksaws, shadeless lamps, tables with missing legs, headless axe handle, and other unremarkable items add up to a pile of junk. Yet someone took the trouble to inventory each worthless relic in a cryptic ledger. The more the boys devote themselves to restoring the forgotten possessions and piecing together the puzzle behind them, the more their fascination deepens into obsession. When a horrifying discovery surfaces, so does the chilling truth about the terrifying events that rocked the town seven years before, the mysterious disappearance of Pinecrest's last resident, and a twisted legacy with a malevolent life of its own?and a bottomless hunger for new victims. John Saul, Books, Fiction and Literature, In the Dark/Night(Cass)Libr(Unab) Books>Fiction and Literature The latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Suffer the Children, The Right Hand of Evil, and Black Creek Crossing for his legion of fans, and all readers of mainstream thrillers. This latest tour de force is a summertime chiller that climaxes in horrific Fourth of July mayhem. An exercise in fright-packed suspense that asks what happens when a teenage boy discovers a collection of serial-killer memorabilia and becomes possessed by the spirits of the objects' original owners. "[Saul is] one of America's favorite fright writers." Fort Worth Star Telegram<