Little Eve - Kind der Schlange

Rob sorgt sich um ihre Tochter Callie, die winzige Knochen sammelt und mit imaginären Freunden flüstert. Sie erkennt in Callie etwas Dunkles, das sie an ihre Familie erinnert, die sie schon so lange versucht zu vergessen. Dennoch beschließt sie, ihre Tochter nach Sundial zu bringen, zurück in das Haus ihrer Kindheit tief in der Mojave-Wüste. Dort wird sie eine schreckliche Entscheidung treffen müssen ... Rob hat Angst vor ihrer Tochter. Und Callie hat Angst vor ihrer Mutter. Ein neues fesselndes Gothic-Meisterwerk der internationalen Bestsellerautorin von Das letzte Haus in der Needless Street. Emma Stonex: »Ein Wüstenstaub-Albtraum mit dem Stachel eines Skorpions. Ich habe es geliebt.« Stephen King: »Dieses Buch darfst du nicht verpassen. Wirklich erschreckend.« Ian Rankin: »Gruselig, originell und packend.«

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." -Stephen KingNamed one of the Best Horror Books of All Time (Esquire and Cosmopolitan) . Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel . An Indie Next Pick . A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick . A Library Journal Editors' Pick Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.A young girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time.A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all."Brilliant....[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." -The New York Times

*** THE THRILLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ****** THE BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ******ONE OF THE TIMES BEST THRILLER BOOKS OF 2021****** THE TIMES NO.4 BESTSELLER ****** THE #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER ***THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTHOBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH'I haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl' - STEPHEN KING 'One of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year' - DAILY MAIL 'A dark, audacious highwire act of a novel' - GUARDIAN________________________________________This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies. An unspeakable secret binds the family together, and when a new neighbour moves in next door, the truth may destroy them all. Because there's something buried in the dark forest at the end of Needless Street. But it's not what you think...From the multiple award-winning author of Little Eve and Rawblood, this extraordinary tale will thrill and move readers. A work of incredible imagination and heartbreaking beauty.*** FILM RIGHTS OPTIONED BY IMAGINARIUM PRODUCTIONS ****** RIGHTS SOLD IN TWENTY TERRITORIES ***________________________________________'Catriona Ward is the new face of literary dark fiction' - SARAH PINBOROUGH'Books like this don't come around too often' - JOANNE HARRIS'Believe the hype... a masterclass' - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense. I was completely enthralled' - JOE HILL'A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting' - ALEX NORTH (lib)

Dies ist die Geschichte von Ted, der mit seiner Tochter Lauren und der Katze Olivia in einem gewöhnlichen Haus am Ende einer gewöhnlichen Straße lebt. Lulu, die kleine Schwester von Dee, ist vor Jahren auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden. Man glaubt, dass sie ermordet wurde. Als Hauptverdächtiger galt damals der Einzelgänger Ted - ein eigenartiger Mann, der an einer Entwicklungsstörung leidet. Die Anschuldigung eines solch abscheulichen Verbrechens haben sich zudem äußerst nachteilig auf sein Leben ausgewirkt. Dee ist inzwischen erwachsen, aber immer noch fest entschlossen herauszufinden, was Lulu angetan wurde. Deshalb mietet sie ein Haus in der Needless Street und beobachtet das merkwürdige Treiben des Mannes aus der Sicherheit ihres neuen Zuhauses. Als ein Nachbar verschwindet und sich weitere seltsame Dinge ereignen, fällt der Verdacht erneut auf Ted ... Kann Dee das Monster endlich demaskieren? Ein höllisch gut geschriebenes Psycho-Puzzle. Du glaubst du weißt, was im letzten Haus in der Needless Street passiert? Tja, du liegst auf jeden Fall falsch. Stephen King: »Das ganze Lob über THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET ist nicht übertrieben. Der Roman hat mich umgehauen. Ein wahrer Nervenzerfetzer, der seine grandiosen Geheimnisse bis zum Ende bewahrt. Seit GONE GIRL habe ich so was Aufregendes nicht mehr gelesen.« Alex North: »Ein Meisterwerk. Faszinierend und herzzerreißend. Einer der stärksten und am besten geschriebenen Romane der letzten Jahre.« Joanne Harris: »Bücher wie diese erscheinen nicht allzu oft. Ein raffinierter, gut geschriebener, stilsicherer Psychothriller ... mit einer perfekt strukturierten Handlung und einem perfekt befriedigenden WAAAS am Ende. Ich würde gern sagen, ich habe das Buch in einem Zug eingeatmet, aber ich glaube, ich war zu beschäftigt damit, den Atem anzuhalten.« Joe Hill: »Ein kaltes, wunderschönes Meisterwerk. Ich bin absolut begeistert.« Der Verlag: Liebe Rezensenten, Spoiler müssen bitte vermieden werden!

** AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF YEAR **'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet' - GUARDIAN'A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession' - DAILY EXPRESSWriters are monsters. We eat everything we see...In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked their New England town. And it is the story of Sky, Wilder's one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir to turn it into a lurid bestselling novel, then died without ever explaining why.This book is Wilder's last chance for revenge. But as he writes, he begins to find notes written in Sky's signature green ink, and events in his manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. Is Sky haunting him? And who is the dark-haired woman drowning in the cove, whom no one else can see? With his grip on reality slipping, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does...'So beautiful, so dark and so vivid' - JENNIFER SAINT'A beautifully sinister tale of perception and identity' - JOANNE HARRIS'Enthralling and heartbreaking' - M.R. CAREY

Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror and the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.<BR><BR>'You liked The Wasp Factory? Meet Little Eve' Natasha Pulley, author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET<BR><BR>'A smart and moving examination of self delusion and the lengths people go to to keep faith . . . I raced through it' Kiran Millwood Hargrave<BR><BR>'A wonderful literary gothic tale' Sarah Pinborough<BR><BR>'Where is Evelyn? Oh, I remember. She took our eyes.'<BR><BR>New Year's Day, 1921. Seven mutilated bodies are discovered in an ancient stone circle on a remote Scottish island. The victims are 'the Children' - members of a nature cult ruled by the charismatic, sadistic patriarch, the adder.<BR><BR>The sole survivor of the massacre, Dinah, claims that Eve is the murderer, apparently drowned while attempting her escape. Yet as Eve's story of the years leading up the massacre intertwines with Dinah's account of the aftermath, a darker, stranger truth begins to emerge.<BR><BR>The Isle is all Eve knows. Hidden from the world, the Children worship the Great Snake who dwells in the ocean, dance in the stones at dawn and offer their blood in sacrifice. The adder's word is law. When Eve is forced into the world beyond the Isle her faith and love are tested by unexpected friendships that make her question everything. As she begins to see through the adder's macabre fictions, the world Eve knows collapses. Does she lose her humanity with her belief? Does it drive her to kill?<BR><BR>'Little Eve is a sublime, utterly compelling tale which grabbed me by the lapels and wouldn't let go. A dark, beautiful, gleaming novel. I loved it' Irenosen Okojie<BR><BR>'Little Eve is brilliantly plotted, wonderfully well written and full of surprises. It has perfect timing, line by line' Andrew Cowan, author of PIG and WORTHLESS MEN<BR><BR>'Little Eve brims with dark energy, full of haunting, surprising turns. You will be guessing and gasping till the end' Philip Womack