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Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things.

After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different....

From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.

©2013 Robert Jackson Bennett (P)2013 Recorded Books Classics Fantasy Genre Fiction Gothic Horror Literary Fiction Mystery Psychological Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths
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The story grips you and hauls you on a wonderfully strange tale. Narrator was great!

Hooked right away

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While the setting and circumstances remind me strongly of the works of Dean R. Koontz, there's a lot of H. P. Lovecraft in here as well.

Not to mention the mind-numbing banality of life in such a structured community.

What I found most attractive is that the "monsters" are as frightened as the protagonists.

I find it ironic that I finished this book on Friday the Thirteenth!

Help! I'm trapped in a small town!

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Flawless and consistent in tone and execution. The story kept me engaged throughout and I loved the people of Wink doing the best they could with what they had. I would absolutely recommend this book!

Brilliantly Original

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