The night house / Jo Nesbo.
By: Nesbo, Jo [author].
Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Charnwood, 2023Edition: Large print edition.Description: 258 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444852189.Subject(s): Orphans -- Fiction | Outcasts -- Fiction | Missing children -- Fiction | Haunted houses -- Fiction | Secrecy -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: 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, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible. 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 Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the woods. There, he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices start...| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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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, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible. 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 Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the woods. There, he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices start...
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