The Drowning House by Priest, Cherie

Author: Priest, Cherie

Thriller / suspense

Published on 23 August 2024 by Sourcebooks, Inc (Poisoned Pen Press) in the United States.

Paperback | 432 pages
210 x 141 x 31 | 436g

‘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 ReviewCherie Priest is our new queen of darkness, folks. Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads. Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents Houses fall into the Pacific Ocean all the time.

Not one has ever come back. Until today.

A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Her grandson, Simon Culpepper, vanishes in the aftermath, leaving two of his childhood friends to comb the small, isolated island for answersbut decades have passed since Melissa and Leo were close, if they were ever close at all. Now theyll have to put aside old rivalries and grudges if they want to find or save the man who brought them together in the first placeand on the way theyll learn a great deal about the sinister house on the beach, the man who built it, and the evil hes bringing back to Marrowstone Island. From award-winning author Cherie Priest comes a deeply haunting and atmospheric horror-thriller that explores the lengths we’ll go to protect those we love.