The Witch's House
Policiers (romans), Détectives féminins , Sensations (romans à)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
A madwoman holds a professor prisoner in this frightening thriller by the Edgar Award–winning &“mistress of day-lit terror&” (The New York Times). California University mathematics instructor Pat O&’Shea is horrified to learn that a fellow faculty member is responsible for… the theft of a valuable piece of lab equipment. But biology professor Everett Adams hasn&’t just turned thief; he&’s also become a stark raving madman. After a confrontation, Adams leaves his accuser for dead, badly beaten on the outside of town. Now, no one has seen either man in days. When O&’Shea awakens in a dilapidated old bungalow on a deserted stretch of nowhere, he&’s not in the hands of a rescuer, but rather at the mercy of a captor. The watchful old woman is demented, homicidal, and taking wicked delight in keeping a hostage. Her killer hound stands guard, and if all goes according to plan, the gravely injured O&’Shea will never be allowed to leave. Frustrated by the ineffective work of the authorities, O&’Shea&’s wife, Anabel, is committed to conducting her own investigation into her husband&’s disappearance. Amassing a trail of evidence, she follows a strange path of baffling clues, family skeletons, and fatal secrets. One by one, they will lead Anabel to a house on the dark side of a dead-end road.