The Shape of Night
The spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series
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4.1 • 50 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'This will haunt you. Riveting!' Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR
'The Shape of Night is as compulsive as it gets.' Lesley Kara, author of THE RUMOUR
If the walls could talk . . . they'd tell her to leave. Now.
When Ava arrives at Brodie’s Watch, she thinks she has found the perfect place to hide from her past. Something terrible happened, something she is deeply ashamed of, and all she wants is to forget.
But the old house on the hill both welcomes and repels her and Ava quickly begins to suspect she is not alone. Either that or she is losing her mind.
The house is full of secrets, but is the creeping sense of danger coming from within its walls, or from somewhere else entirely?
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Readers are obsessed with The Shape of Night
***** ‘A creepy, atmospheric thriller that I thoroughly enjoyed.’
***** ‘A powerful book that I could not put down but … I was scared to pick back up!!’
***** ‘Twists and turns till the end. Really kept me turning the pages.’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This supernatural thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (the Rizzoli and Isles series) ranks with the best of her crime fiction. Boston food writer Ava Colette travels to Tucker Cove, Maine, where she rents Brodie's Watch, an old house on the coast once owned by a 19th-century sea captain, Jeremiah Brodie. Ava's goal is to finish writing her latest cookbook there, but she's also trying to escape a tragic past. Soon her nights are interrupted by visions of Jeremiah's ghost, who appears to be as real as if he were a flesh and blood man. Meanwhile, she begins to wonder about a series of mysterious if apparently natural deaths in the town and why the last renter left the house so abruptly. After learning more about the house's history and its previous inhabitants, she consults a ghost hunter, whose team discovers some disturbing things about paranormal presences at Brodie's Watch. The stakes rise when Ava figures out that a killer is on the loose who must be stopped. This magnetic haunted house story will keep readers riveted from the very first page.
Customer Reviews
My favourite author disappoints
I really didn’t want to write a poor review for one of my favourite ever authors but this was just too bad to even finish. I love Tess Gerritsen and I now automatically buy her new book without reading the synopsis - huge mistake this time I guess. I just found this to be a bit of a silly ghost story with a super unlikeable main character. The first person narration is off putting because it feels really forced getting any back story. I’m sorry to say that I didn’t finish it because I didn’t want to waste time and energy when I have other books waiting to be read! Really wish that Apple Books did refunds...