Bedbugs
FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee.Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic...
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FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee.Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up.Big mistake. Susan soon discovers that her new home is crawling with bedbugs . . . or is it? She awakens every morning with fresh bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter Emma has a single welt. An exterminator searches the property and turns up nothing. The landlady insists her building is clean. Susan fears she’s going mad—until a more sinister explanation presents itself: she may literally be confronting the bedbug problem from Hell.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594745232 (1594745234)
ASIN: 1594745234
Publish date: 2011-09-06
Publisher: Quirk Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Horror,
Suspense,
Supernatural,
Fiction
I first learned about Winters by browsing the Quirk Books site (coming there after I received an announcement for Horrorstor - a book about haunted IKEA like furniture store - an idea which itself sounded so utterly harebrained that transcended into greatness). Qirk Books are amazing - wonderfully p...
This book reminded me of the movie ""Bug"", I was certain the woman was nuts. The ending was just so out there and kind of ruined the whole experience.
...well, that was an amazingly fast read.Pros: while I figured that Andrea had done something awful, I was not expecting it to be that; I was loosely imagining her murdering her husband, honestly. And Susan's slow determined breakdown is beautifully written--I understand she's right, but the portray...
Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.SYNOPSISSure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up.Big mistake. Susan soon discovers that her new home is crawling with bedbug...
Read this review at Smash Attack Reads! http://www.smashattackreads.com/2011/10/bedbugs-book-that-will-surely-get-under.htmlMy Synopsis: Meet Susan and Alex Wendt, and their adorable daughter, Emma, a typical family living in Brooklyn, NY. Susan has quit her job to pursue her love of art, and has be...