Following a string of affairs, Karl and Eleanor are giving their marriage one last shot: they're moving with their twelve-year-old daughter Irina from Brooklyn to a newly renovated, apparently charming old house near the upstate New York town of Broken River.
Before their arrival, the house stood empty for over a decade. The reason is no secret. Twelve years previously, a brutal double murder took place there, a young couple killed in front of their child. The crime was never solved, and most locals consider the house cursed.
The family may have left the deceptions of their city life behind them, but all three are still lying to each other, and to themselves. Before long the family's duplicity will unleash forces none of them could possibly have anticipated, putting them in mortal danger.
This new novel by America's master of literary rule-breaking is part thriller, part family drama, part Gothic horror-and like all J.Robert Lennon's novels, it shows the consequences of human deceitfulness, and the dreadful force the past can exert on the present.
- ISBN10 1781258007
- ISBN13 9781781258002
- Publish Date 1 June 2017 (first published 16 May 2017)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 29 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Serpent's Tail
- Edition Export/Airside
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English