The Girl Next Door
by:
Jack Ketchum (author)
Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house. Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rage of a...
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Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house. Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rage of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that inflects all three of her sons--and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan, and their cruel, torturous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make...
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Format: Mass Market
ISBN:
9780843955439 (0843955430)
Publish date: June 1st 2005
Publisher: Leisure Books
Pages no: 370
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Adult,
Mystery,
Sociology,
Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
True Crime,
Suspense,
Abuse,
Splatterpunk
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