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Nesbo, Jo, 1960-

The night house / Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith. - London, England : Harvill Secker, 2023. - 263 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes an extract of the Detective Harry Hole novel Killing Moon. First published in Norway by H.Aschehoug & Co (W. Nygaard), Oslo, as Natthuset in 2023.

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...


Translated from the Norwegian.

ISBN: 9781787303751 1787303756

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Secrecy--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Outcasts--Fiction.
Missing children--Fiction.
Haunted houses--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Horror fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 839.823/74