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The Night Strangers

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story.

In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
           
The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine – a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village – self-proclaimed herbalists – and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous?
  
The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply.

The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.



Jackie says:
"I've been reading Bohjalian's books for years now, and they are always well worth the time to curl up and enjoy them.  But with this new one, for the first time ever, he managed to kind of creep me out.  This one is about a plane crash, which broke the spirit of the surviving captain, and a coven of witches with a need for twins.  The captain has twin 10 year old daughters.  There's a bit of Stephen King's Shining influencing the plot as well.  Mix all of that in a cauldron with a bunch of the "herbs" that are being grown in the towns plethora of greenhouses and you get one heck of a story, right down to the unexpected ending (or at least I thought so).  Bohjalian has a great talent for bringing small New England towns alive, even when they are filled with the dead.  This is a great read."