

- Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Fiction
A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, 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.
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- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jason Rekulak
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 408
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781250819369
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