This work presents classic blockbuster from King at the peak of his powers. Combining powerful elements from "The Shining" and "Rebecca", "Bag of Bones" is at once a first-rate suspense novel, a legal thriller, a haunted house story and a love story - it is King at his most accessible and compelling. When bestselling crime writer Mike Noonan's wife dies, he suffers from writer's block. Until he is drawn from Derry to his lakeside retreat, Sara Laughs - a house once inhabited by a famous singer. It's a community run by rich, tyrannical, wheelchair-bound Devore and his terrifying, skeletal female bookkeeper. Devore is hell-bent on getting custody of his grandchild. Three year old Kyra and her young mother, Mattie, turn to Mike for help - and Mike, besotted by Mattie, is powerless to resist. But there are others at Sara Laughs determined to prevent Mike's success - and Kyra can feel them too...
- ISBN10 0684853507
- ISBN13 9780684853505
- Publish Date 24 August 1998 (first published 1 November 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
- Imprint Prentice Hall & IBD
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English