Review
"taut action and appealing characters" (San Francisco Chronicle )
"A genuinely scary thriller with satisfyingly malevolent villains." (The Sun Herald (Sydney) on BAD THINGS )
"This spooky tale shows Marshall...has a knack not only for the frisson of dread but also the telling psychological insight." (Publishers Weekly on BAD THINGS )
"This is a psychological thriller guaranteed to keep you up at nights." (Arcadian Lifestyle )
"Michael Marshall is the new Stephen King, to the nth degree. He successfully complements Carol O'Connell's tormented characters for roller-coaster-like psychological twists and thrills....BAD THINGS deserves six stars." (www.BookReporter.com on BAD THINGS )
"Fast-moving, sinister and highly accomplished.This is ferocious story-telling of the highest order, with corkscrew twists and turns that make it deliciously scary as the secrets unfold." (Daily Mail (London) on BAD THINGS )
"Marshall builds up suspense slowly . . . Black Ridge - like the Maine towns populated by Stephen King's characters - is not a place you want to visit." (Booklist on BAD THINGS )
Product Description
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From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Intruders</i> and <i>The Straw Men</i> comes a nerve-shattering story of guilt, secrets, and very, very . . . bad things
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On a beautiful summer afternoon, John Henderson watched his four-year-old son, Scott, tumble from a jetty into the lake outside their Black Ridge, Washington, home. In an instant, Scott Henderson had simply, inexplicably . . . <i>died</i>.
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Three years later, John is a different man—divorced, living a solitary existence in a beach house in Oregon. Then one night he receives a disturbing e-mail message from a stranger. It reads: <i>I know what happened.</i>
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It's enough to pull him back to Black Ridge—the one place on earth he'd hoped never to return to, unwittingly unleashing a terrifying sequence of events that threatens to destroy what remains of everything he once held dear.
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A relentlessly thrilling novel of psychological suspense, Michael Marshall's <i>Bad Things</i> is a masterwork of chill-inducing brilliance that will keep the reader guessing right through to the final page.
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