Hidden Pictures: A Novel
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GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER "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 has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman's lifeless body. Then, Teddy's artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force. Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it's too late.BUY THE BOOK
Community Reviews
I thought the author did a great job with the writing of this book. The beginning was slightly slow but it ramped up to where you could start to get creative with your imagination, on what you think would happen next or who was behind everything. The ending was by far the biggest plot twist I’ve read in a long time! I couldn’t believe what I was reading in the last two chapters of the book! It was the icing on the cake for me! Overall, great read with really good suspense.
I'm mildly disappointed with this and don't really want to spend too much time thinking about what I read. Really, it feels like a middle-class white true crime fan's wet dream and I'm shocked that it's still hovering over 4 stars.
Each twist was more shocking than the next. The only reason this took me more than one sitting to read is because I started it late in the evening. This book was a page turner and had me in a chokehold. Highly recommend.
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