

Three months after Jess walked out, Malcolm learns a secret about her, a bar patron goes missing, and a blizzard strikes in this tale of a marriage in crisis. Meanwhile, his wife Jess’s long battle with infertility has her reassessing her life dreams. But Malcolm quickly learns that turning a profit is harder than he anticipated.

Patterson is in a class by himself.When his boss retires, longtime bartender Malcolm jumps at the chance to buy The Half Moon. STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind. Patterson boils a scene down to a single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. LEE CHILD, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series No one gets this big without natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried. like Michael Crichton (who might have written something very like this), Patterson and Barker keep ratcheting up the suspense and the sense of impending doom, until, by the end, we wish we could read faster just so we can find out what happens next. Publisher: Cornerstone ISBN: 9781529157024 Number of pages: 448 Weight: 319 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪ really entertaining thriller. 'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting' Mark Lawson, Guardian 'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell

'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams.įrom out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie. keeps ratcheting up the suspense' Booklist 'A really entertaining thriller like Michael Crichton.
