Ugly Young Thing

Name: Ugly Young Thing
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jennifer Jaynes
ISBN: 9781501228599

Author: Jennifer Jaynes

Series: Strangers

Narrator: Natalie Ross

Unabridged: 4 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 03/03/2015

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Allie has already experienced a lifetime of horror, having lost her mother and serial killer brother to mental illness.Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana, Allie ends up in foster care and is placed with Miss Bitty, an eccentric but kindly older woman who shows her a new direction and brighter future.But Allie’s new life takes a devastating turn when young women in the area start turning up dead, and she begins to see shadowy figures outside her bedroom. As Miss Bitty grows inexplicably distant, a nagging voice makes Allie wonder if death has found her yet again…or if it never really left her at all.

About Jennifer Jaynes

Since graduating from Old Dominion University with a BS in health sciences and a minor in management, Jennifer Jaynes has made her living as a content manager, webmaster, news publisher, editor, and copywriter.Her first novel, Never Smile at Strangers, quickly found an audience and, in 2014, became a USA Today bestseller.When she’s not spending time with her twin sons or writing, she loves reading, cooking, studying nutrition, doing CrossFit, and playing poker.She currently lives in the Dallas area with her husband and two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maxine

I had no idea that this book was the follow on to Jennifer Jaynes first novel in the series Never Smile At Strangers. It read perfectly fine as a stand alone and kicked off in fine intense fashion that hooked me into shore pretty quickly. This one is one of those easy read page turners that also giv......more

Goodreads review by Judy

Jennifer Jaynes returns with UGLY YOUNG THING, (Grand Trespass #2) a "killer" followup --an intense psychological suspense thriller, a sizzling page-turner, for a continuation of Allie we met in Never Smile at Strangers (Grand Trespass #1). Allie, sixteen-years-old, is beautiful; however, after bei......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma

If the author was finding her feet with her first book, Never Smile at Strangers she’s off and running with this one, a tighter psychological thriller and a solid 4★ read. A crazed killer, who picks his prey using a 'smile formula', stalks and hunts young women until he's overcome by the itch to do m......more