What the heck is going on? If Dee gets into any trouble, she cannot call the police she has burned that bridge. The dread increases and so does the puzzlement. The book sounds crazier and crazier as it goes along. And where is the chihuahua lady who lives a few doors down? Ted sometimes appears at the bug doctor’s with scratches on his face or arms. There are gods in the forest, green something-or-others in the attic, and his mother is somewhere undefined. Ted drinks to excess, tries online dating, has difficulty making friends. He calls his therapist “the bug man,” mostly because he has a hard time remembering names. He is seeing a therapist for some of those issues - but mainly to get medication. Over the last eleven years, since the loss of her sister, Dee has become her own best detective, and it is Ted who has finally drawn her undivided attention. Ted was one of the people questioned by the police after Lulu’s disappearance, and he was exonerated. Long ago, one sunny summer day, Dee lost her younger sister at a lake not far from Needless Street. As forbidding as Ted’s house is, new neighbor Dee still tries to make Ted’s acquaintance. The backyard, once the scene of a bird massacre, is rimmed by a dark forest.
What exactly is happening in Ted’s house, the last house on Needless Street? The windows are boarded up, there are three locks on each door.
As their stories move along, the dread grows. The other two voices are Ted, Lauren’s father, and their new neighbor, Dee. One of those voices belongs to a cat, Olivia. A horror story set in the Pacific Northwest, normally the home of just vampires, ancient forests, mystical rites? Now something else is stirring in the forest? Sounds like a perfect winter’s read.Īuthor Catriona Ward has many narrative voices in her chilling tale of murder (maybe), abuse (maybe), creepiness (definitely).
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