This masterwork of suspense is as careful with its sharp takes as it is with the bread crumbs it slowly drops on the way to its stunning end. Darnielle flays the conventions of true crime to reveal the macabre and ordinary brutality behind sensationalised stories of violence. An impressively meta work that delivers the pleasures of true-crime while skewering it.' * Kirkus, starred review * 'iveting. he's excellent at getting into the uncomfortable details of abusive homes and how fear sparks an urge to escape both physically and creatively. It's better.' - Dwight Garner * The New York Times * 'This smart, twisty novel about true crime books and the 1980s "Satanic panic" is a fine fit for him and his best so far. It's never quite the book you think it is. I had no idea where it was going, in the best possible sense. His third novel, Devil House, is terrific: confident, creepy, a powerful and soulful page-turner. 'Quietly, as if stealing in on cat's paws, become, as a novelist, unignorable.
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