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Black house / Stephen King and Peter Straub.

A comfortable, solid, middle-American town inhabited by a serial killer. Children are disappearing, lost to the world, horrifically murdered. The best clue the detectives have a serial killer from a century ago. Jack Sawyer, retired from the LAPD at 35, plagued by visions of another world. As a child, Jack visited the Territories, a menacing place of violence and madness, to save his dying mother. Now, if the latest child victim is to be saved, Jack must retrieve his lost childhood memories and revisit the one place he hoped never to see again.

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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Res.
C9008160074 F KIN
Adult fiction   City Branch . . Available .  
C9009991541 F KIN
Adult fiction   Smithfield Branch . . On Loan . 7 May 2024
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ISBN 9781409103899 (paperback)
Author King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Title Black house / Stephen King and Peter Straub.
Published London : Orion, 2012.
Physical description 819 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Talisman 2
General note Originally published: New York: Random House; London: HarperCollins, 2001.
Summary A comfortable, solid, middle-American town inhabited by a serial killer. Children are disappearing, lost to the world, horrifically murdered. The best clue the detectives have a serial killer from a century ago. Jack Sawyer, retired from the LAPD at 35, plagued by visions of another world. As a child, Jack visited the Territories, a menacing place of violence and madness, to save his dying mother. Now, if the latest child victim is to be saved, Jack must retrieve his lost childhood memories and revisit the one place he hoped never to see again.
Subject Serial murder investigation -- Fiction
Serial murderers -- Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
Children -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Horror fiction
Additional author Straub, Peter, 1943-2022 author.
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