Black House

£12.99

A comfortable, solid, middle-American town – inhabited by a serial killer. Children are disappearing, lost to the world, horrifically murdered. The best clue the detectives have – a serial killer from a century ago. Jack Sawyer, retired from the LAPD at 35, plagued by visions of another world. As a child, Jack visited the Territories, a menacing place of violence and madness, to save his dying mother. Now, if the latest child victim is to be saved, Jack must retrieve his lost childhood memories, and revisit the one place he hoped never to see again.

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Could the past he thought he’d escaped be reaching out to him from the Black House . . .

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called the Territories in search of the talisman to save his mother’s life.

Now Jack is a former Los Angeles homicide detective living in the quiet town of French Landing in Wisconsin. But a series of murders involving young children force him out of retirement.

If Jack is to save the latest victim, he must retrieve his childhood memories and revisit the one place he never wanted to see again . . .

‘Epic . . . impossible to put down’ Sunday Express

‘One of the most brilliant and chilling thrillers of modern times’ Daily Mail

‘It’s the best of the best. No argument! The ultimate in storytelling by two masters of the craft’ Independent on Sunday

Additional information

Weight 0.566 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13 × 5.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

817

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K