"A chillingly creepy, wild ride of crime horror and coming-of-age turmoil from the acclaimed writer of world-class crime thrillers."
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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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...
The Night House features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction in translation, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction, Fiction: special features, Horror and Supernatural Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Fiction: narrative themes
The Night House is available in Hardback
The Night House was written by Jo Nesbo and published by Harvill Secker an imprint of Vintage Publishing
The Night House has 263 pages
