Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, and a decent student. But he carries a heavy load.
His mom was killed in a hit-and-runaccidentwhenhe was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself-and his dad.
When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
Author Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in his novel Fairy Tale, about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel worldwheregoodandevilare at war, and the stakes could not be higher, for that world or ours.
In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. Two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts.
One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher and he sees what actually happened.
A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her death, before swiftly grabbing the dead woman's purse and strolling away.
When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence.
With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible. But Reacher is unaware that these crimes are part of something much largerandmorefar-reaching: an arsonist out for revenge, a foster kid on the run, a cabal of powerful people involved in a secret conspiracy with many moving parts.
There is no room for error, but they make a grave one. They don't consider Reacher a threat. There's too much at stake to start running from shadows.
But Reacher isn't a shadow. He is flesh and blood. And relentless when it comes to making things right.
Noroomforerror. NoPlan B is the new Jack Reacher thriller from authors Lee Child and Andrew Child Sometimes, the most perfect families are hiding the most terrible secrets. How well do you know the people next door?
Everybodywantstoliveon Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit.
Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don't they join backyard barbecues?
Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather than inviting you in?
Every family has secrets, and on the hottest day of the year, the truth is about to come out. As a tragedy unfolds behind closed doors, the dawn chorus is split by the wail of sirens.
And one by one the families who tried so hard to welcome the Wests begin to realise: Hogarth Street will never be the same again.
The Family Across the Street is a gripping psychological thriller, by Nicole Trope.