The Queen (Unabridged)
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- 27,99 €
Publisher Description
From “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop—a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.
On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it and is greeted by a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity’s been missing for over a month. Most people in town—even the police—think she’s dead.
Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about each another…except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story—the real story.
In a narrative that takes place over one feverish day, Margaret follows a series of increasingly disquieting breadcrumbs as she forges deeper into the mystery of her best friend—a person she never truly knew at all….
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This astute and gruesome body-horror novel by Nick Cutter, author of social media sensation The Troop, will have you reaching for the industrial-size can of bug spray. After opening with a prologue strewn with bodies and buzzing with malevolent wasps, the story jumps back a day earlier to our protagonist, Margaret, mourning for and feeling guilty about her best friend, 18-year-old Charity, who disappeared a month ago from their small Canadian town. But now someone has sent Maggie an iPhone filled with texts and voice messages that appear to be from her missing friend. And what do the disappearances have to do with the experiments funded by an ultrawealthy and possibly unhinged tech tycoon? Narrator Ariel Blake does a delicate job with Maggie’s horror and confusion, supported by three male narrators providing other characters’ perspectives on her terrifying saga. Feast on this delight mixing gross-out slaughter with a surprisingly poignant look at the complexity and intensity of teenage friendship.
