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Jo Nesbø, author of The Night House

In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, 14-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects he is responsible. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider. Richard traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Mirror Forest. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear: She’s going to burn. The girl you love is going to burn. There’s nothing you can do about it.

Week of September 23, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of September 23rd include THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, the long-awaited sequel to Ken Follett's A COLUMN OF FIRE, which heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond; THE NIGHT HOUSE, Jo Nesbø's first-ever horror novel, which revolves around a young man who disappears when a telephone booth sucks him into the receiver; BROOKLYN CRIME NOVEL by Jonathan Lethem, a sweeping story of community, crime and gentrification, tracing more than 50 years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood; and CHENNEVILLE, a fearless novel from Paulette Jiles about a man who, consumed with grief and driven by vengeance, undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption.