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"The Drowning House is deliciously eerie, atmospheric, and impossible to forget. The setting, the friends, and the washed-up house itself combine together to create one of this year's best horror stories." —Darcy Coates, author of Dead of WinterThird Place Books is thrilled to welcome back local author Cherie Priest to our Ravenna store! Priest will be discussing her new novel, The Drowning House, a tightly paced thriller that explores the lengths we'll go to protect those we love. She will be joined in conversation by local author Kat Richardson. This event is free and open to the public.
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About The Drowning House. . .
A brand-new horror thriller from award-winning author Cherie Priest! A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto Marrowstone Island, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Now Charlotte Culpepper is dead, and her grandson Simon is missing. Determined to get answers, Simon’s childhood friends Melissa and Leo make the trek back to Marrowstone to find him, but they aren't prepared for what's waiting to find them...
Praise for The Drowning House. . .
"This smartly paced, genre bending novel is a good choice for the horror-curious thriller reader who enjoyed The Good House by Tananarive Due and Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”
—Booklist (starred review)
"A great suspenseful and twisty story, reminiscent of Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, and The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon."
—Library Journal
"Inhabiting the same sandy block as Michael McDowell's The Elementals and Josh Malerman's A House at the Bottom of a Lake, Cherie Priest's The Drowning House has taken up permanent residence in my subconscious alongside the briniest haunted houses around. Be forewarned: there's an undertow to this novel. Once you start reading, it'll suck you right in."
—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters
"The Drowning House is deliciously eerie, atmospheric, and impossible to forget. The setting, the friends, and the washed-up house itself combine together to create one of this year's best horror stories."
—Darcy Coates, author of Dead of Winter
"Cherie's Priest's The Drowning House is a haunted house tale of a totally unique order. I consider myself a hard reader to surprise. Priest's thrilling and heartfelt novel managed to do just that."
—Nick Cutter, author of The Handyman Method
Cherie Priest is the author of two dozen books and novellas including mysteries and gothic horror projects The Toll, The Family Plot, and the Philip K. Dick Award nominee Maplecroft; but she is perhaps best known for the steampunk pulp adventures of the Clockwork Century, beginning with Boneshaker. Her works have been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction and have won the Locus Award (among others)—and over the years, they’ve been translated into nine languages in eleven countries.
Kat Richardson lives in Western Washington, writing and editing Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. She is the award-winning and bestselling author of the Greywalker paranormal detective novels, and a freelance editor of genre fiction. As a former journalist and non-fiction editor, she has a wide range of publications on topics from technology, software, and security, to history, health, and precious metals. A lifelong fan of crime and mystery fiction, and noir films, she is also the author of the Science Fiction Thriller Blood Orbit—winner of the 2019 Endeavour Award—under the pseudonym K. R. Richardson. She is a member of International Thriller Writers, and a past-president of the Northwest chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
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6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98115
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