Hidden Pictures
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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“I loved it." —Stephen King
From Edgar Award-finalist Jason Rekulak comes a wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, for fans of Stranger Things and Riley Sager, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.
Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.
Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.
Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it’s too late.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this dark suburban thriller, Jason Rekulak explores the horror that lies beyond the most manicured lawns. Mallory Quinn is a young recovering addict who’s landed a job as a nanny to adorable five-year-old Teddy in a picture-perfect New Jersey town. But there’s a darkness lingering at the end of the woodsy cul-de-sac, where Mallory suspects a horrifying murder once took place. Rekulak keeps you riveted as sweet Teddy draws increasingly detailed and unsettling pictures of the long-ago crime. As the truth comes closer to the surface, so do Mallory’s past traumas and her seemingly ideal host family’s secrets. Hidden Pictures is a frightening thriller packed with plenty of heart.
