The Night House: A novel
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Jo Nesbo. (2023). The Night House: A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jo Nesbo. 2023. The Night House: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jo Nesbo, The Night House: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023.

Jo Nesbo. The Night House: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023.

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   • bioText: JO NESBØ is a #1 New York Times best-selling author whose books have sold fifty-five million copies worldwide and have been translated into fifty languages. His Harry Hole novels include The Redeemer, The Snowman, The Leopard, Phantom, Knife, and Killing Moon. His other books include The Son, Headhunters, Macbeth, and The Kingdom. He is a recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Oslo.
     NEIL SMITH is a translator from Norwegian and Swedish based in Norfolk, UK. His translations include books by Jo Nesbø, Fredrik Backman, Leif G. W. Persson, Liza Marklund, Anders de la Motte, Arne Dahl and Kristina Ohlsson. His translation of Leif G. W. Persson's The Dying Detective was awarded the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel.
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From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • When the voices call, don't answer.
“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn

In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Mirror Forest. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . . 
She’s going to burn. The girl you love is going to burn. There’s nothing you can do about it.
When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence—and preserve his sanity—as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction.
Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story . . .

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     August 1, 2023
     

     In mystery writer Nesb�'s (Killing Moon) first foray into horror, 14-year-old Richard Elauved, sent to live with his aunt and uncle after his parents' deaths, feels trapped in sleepy, rural Ballantyne. He quickly earns a reputation as the angry city kid who lashes out at the slightest provocation. When a classmate goes missing, all eyes are on Richard, who was the last person to see him alive. What Richard can't get anyone to believe is that Tom was sucked into the receiver while making a prank call in a telephone booth on the edge of the woods. After another classmate disappears, Richard discovers a house in the forest that holds a dark past. With help from his friend Karen and the local librarian, Richard must prove his innocence--though he may not be as reliable a narrator as he seems. VERDICT Nesb� deftly guides readers on a journey much larger than many will expect from the slim volume. Reminiscent of Joe Meno's The Boy Detective Fails, initial expectations of genre, setting, and mood are subverted as a simple horror novel unfolds into a story that encompasses grief, mid-life crises, and more. Give this one to fans of Grady Hendrix or adults nostalgic for the "Goosebumps" series.--Portia Kapraun

     Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     August 15, 2023
     Dark horror by the renowned Norwegian crime novelist. In the town of Ballantyne, Richard Elauved is a troubled 14-year-old outcast who bullies his classmates. He coerces Tom into a telephone booth (remember those?) and gets him to call Imu Jonasson, an apparently random person whose name he finds in the phone book. But the phone digs into the poor boy's flesh and eats him up until all traces disappear. Richard goes to the police but cannot persuade them of the horrible truth--for one thing, they can't find Jonasson's name in the book--and they demand to know if Richard drowned Tom in the river. In the first third of the tale, all the main characters are teens. Fifteen years pass, and Richard attends a class reunion. Now he is the author of The Night House, the story they're in and "the teenage horror novel that had changed my life." He says he came to the reunion to apologize for having bullied everyone, yet all his fellow alums insist he'd been an okay kid, not the nasty bully he'd portrayed in his famous book. So who's right? Creepy stuff continues, including death by hanging, blood drooling down a car window, transmogrification into a cockroach--you know, standard horror fare. What adds a level of interest is Richard Hansen, who had invented the surname "Elauved" for a curious reason. Perhaps he has a mental illness, given that events belie perception. What is true, and what is the detritus of his fevered brain? Is this a dream within a dream? Some of the evil comes from a surprising source, who advises young Richard, "If you really want to kill them, you have to do it twice. If you don't, they come back."But an ill-fated fiend named Jack has the best line: "We'd actually prefer it if you tried to escape. It's a well-known fact that adrenaline gives meat a bit of extra flavor." Scary fun that won't cause nightmares--or will it?

     COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     August 21, 2023
     Bestselling crime writer Nesbø takes a break from his Harry Hole detective series with this wild and ambitious but not entirely successful three-part horror opus. The first and longest section is narrated by Richard Elauved, a rambunctious 14-year-old orphan who delights in playing pranks and manipulating gullible school chums in the small town of Ballantyne. After two friends disappear in his presence under horrifying and otherworldly circumstances, Richard fails to convince incredulous authorities that the supernatural was involved. Instead, he’s whisked away to the Rorrim Correctional Facility for Young People. After the distinct and intentional YA vibe of this opening, Nesbø pulls the rug out from under the reader in the novel’s second section, skewing the tale in a different direction that sheds light on possible sources for some of the earlier horrors even as it serves up new ones. Then, Nesbø does it again in a third section whose rationalizations for all of the preceding weirdness are disappointingly anticlimactic. Nesbø shows a sure hand at crafting moments of terror, but only his most devoted readers won’t cock an eyebrow at the bait-and-switch plotting. Despite some memorable individual scares, horror aficionados are likely to grow frustrated with this.

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     September 1, 2023
     Nesb�'s latest (after Killing Moon, 2023) is a horror thriller about an unlikeable young teenager named Richard who is living with his aunt and uncle in a small town. He does not want to be there and admits that he does everything he can to be despised by his relatives, his classmates, and all the adults around him. Unfortunately for Richard, he finds himself front and center in a bizarre murder case, and he decides to find out what really happened before he can be accused of the crime and punished. Because if he is found guilty of the murder, the town itself might swallow him. Night House is a fast-paced escape of a book that unfortunately relies on a magical stereotype in the middle of the story to move the plot forward. Nonetheless, Nesb� skillfully keeps the reader wondering where the story is going to go next and when, if ever, the main character will reach his happy ending--or if, in fact, he deserves to reach one at all. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The many fans of Nesb�'s Harry Hole thrillers will be curious about his jaunt into the supernatural here.

     COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn

In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to...

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