The Last House on Needless Street
The Last House on Needless StreetCatriona Ward
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The Last House on Needless Street (2021)

Catriona Ward

Others: Mostly positive

In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage 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.

ISBN:
9781250812629
Length:
352 pages

Genres: horror, mystery, thriller

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