02871cam a2200349 i 4500 1856105139 TxAuBib 20240916120000.0 240916s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021055576 9781250819345 hardcover 1250819342 hardcover DLC eng rda DLC DLC NjBwBT IMmBT NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Rekulak, Jason, author. Hidden pictures / Jason Rekulak ; illustrations by Will Staehle and Doogie Horner. First U.S. edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2022. 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""Whip-smart, creepy as hell, and masterfully plotted, Hidden Pictures is the best new thriller novel I've read in years. Destined to be a classic of the genre." -Ransom Riggs, bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell's pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman's lifeless body. As the days pass, Teddy's artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell's house. With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy-while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past-before it's too late"-- Provided by publisher. 20240916. cdpc522. Nannies Fiction. Murder Fiction. Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Staehle, Will, illustrator. Horner, Doogie, illustrator.