LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
In The Night House, Jo Nesbo, master of detective thrillers, plunges headlong into creepy territory with an edge-of-your-seat take on coming-of-age horror. It’s inventive, it’s straight-talking, it’s straight-up twisting and twisted, with a classic outcast character and movie-style, edge-of-the-woods eeriness.
After the deaths of his parents, 14-year-old Richard goes to live with his aunt and uncle in a remote town — “a little sh*thole,” in Richard’s words. “And I had no idea what sh*tty little kids in sh*tholes like Ballantyne did to stop themselves from being bored to death.” Suffice to say, Richard’s experience turns out to be anything but boring.
First, up one of his classmates goes missing, and (understandably) pretty much no one believes outsider Richard when he claims the kid was pulled into the receiver of a remote telephone booth. Finding an ally in Karen, and with a second kid missing, Richard sets about investigating what dark forces might be at play.
Creepy, weird, and wildly inventive, The Night House is also riotously entertaining.
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The Night House Synopsis
WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER...
A twisted spin on the classic coming-of-age horror story from the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Jo Nesbo, author of the Detective Harry Hole series.
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote town of Ballantyne.
Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, no one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie.
No one, that is, except the enigmatic Karen, who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number to an abandoned house in the woods. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices start.
When another classmate disappears, Richard grapples with the dark magic that's possessing Ballantyne to try and find them before its too late...
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781787303744 |
| Publication date: |
28th September 2023 |
| Author: |
Jo Nesbo |
| Publisher: |
Harvill Secker an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
263 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Jo Nesbo Press Reviews
Nesbo doesn't spend any time fiddling about, building up, or misdirecting. In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there. There are lessons to be learned here: who to believe and what to believe in. And how a person can change, when the impossible turns possible and the unimaginable is laid bare. This horror fan loved it - Josh Malerman, best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
Nesbo doesn't spend any time fiddling about, building up, or misdirecting. In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there. There are lessons to be learned here: who to believe and what to believe in. And how a person can change, when the impossible turns possible and the unimaginable is laid bare. This horror fan loved it - Josh Malerman, best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
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About Jo Nesbo
Jo Nesbø, musician, economist and author of the best-selling series featuring Detective Harry Hole, has won many prizes for his novels, including the Glass Key, the Riverton Prize and the Norwegian Bookclub prize for best ever Norwegian crime novel. His first novel to be published in English was The Devil's Star and the second, The Redbreast, was shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. He lives in Oslo.
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