Perfect Nightmare, John Saul
Perfect Nightmare, John Saul
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Perfect Nightmare

Author: John Saul

Narrator: Dick Hill, Susie Breck

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2005


Synopsis

If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul weaves a heart-stopping tale of lurking terror and twisted intent.Every parent’s nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom during the night. The police suspect that the girl is just another moody teenage runaway, angry over leaving behind her school and friends because her family is moving. But Lindsay’s recent eerie claim—that someone invaded her room when the house was opened to prospective buyers—drives Kara to fear the worst: a nameless, faceless stalker has walked the halls of her home in search of more than a place to live.Patrick Shields recognizes Kara’s pain—and carries plenty of his own since he lost his wife and two children in a devastating house fire. But more than grief draws Patrick and Kara together. He, too, senses the hand of a malevolent stranger in this tragedy. And as more people go missing from houses up for sale, Patrick’s suspicion, like Kara’s, blooms into horrified certainty.Someone is trolling this peaceful community—undetected and undeterred—harvesting victims for a purpose no sane mind can fathom. Someone Kara and Patrick, alone and desperate, are determined to unmask. Someone who is even now watching, plotting, keeping a demented diary of unspeakable deeds…and waiting until the time is ripe for another fateful visit.

About John Saul

Perfect Nightmare is John Saul’s thirty-second novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy seller. His other bestselling suspense novels include Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, Nightshade, The Right Hand of Evil, The Presence, Black Lightning, Guardian, and The Homing. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling serial thriller The Blackstone Chronicles, initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra on September 27, 2022

Lindsay Marshall (from Camden Green, Long Island) has one more year of high school and then she graduates. But her parents want to sell their house and move to New York City because Lindsay’s father’s job is there, and her parents are seeing less and less of each other since he has to stay at a smal......more

Goodreads review by Peter on July 16, 2022

Open house turns into nightmare. Who is kidnapping the girls and why? What about the Marshall family and why does Patrick Shield help Kara to get Lindsay back? This John Saul will run shivers down your spine. The way the maniac is described is absolutely haunting. Will the police find the perp in ti......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 12, 2021

Actual rating is 3.5 stars. This book is about a kidnapper that gains access to people's houses by the means of open houses as these people attempt to sell their home. One of the victims is a teenage girl Lindsay and her mother never gives up hope of finding her. This is a horror thriller genre novel......more

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks) on September 12, 2016

Somehow I ended up with an abridged copy of this audiobook. I don't like abridged because I always feel like I'm missing something super important, usually characterization, but this abridgement wasn’t too bad. This story is about a psycho attempting to create a family by abducting women through ope......more

Goodreads review by Carol on May 22, 2020

It's been a long time since I read a John Saul book...but i believe I have now read everything he has ever published. His books are supernatural in content but has enough of a non-ghostly story to satisfy almost everyone. I don't want to even imagine what it would be like to have a child go missing......more