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Joyce Carol Oates · Mystery & Thriller

41 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

missing persondark academiaunreliable narrator
psychological thriller
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#157 All Time

About this book

An “enthralling” (Los Angeles Times) and “remarkably engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by legendary author Joyce Carol Oates This edition contains “The Frenzy,” the title story from Joyce Carol Oates’s forthcoming short story collection. “Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written.”—Gillian Flynn “I found it mesmerizing front to back.”—Michael Connelly “I can’t remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive.”—Rebecca Makkai “An extraordinary novel . . . unlike any other mystery I’ve read.”—Joseph Finder “Tom Ripley, eat your heart out.”—NPR “A classic psychological suspense.”—People “A dark, daring plunge into literary suspense . . . Oates dissects the predator-prey dynamic with merciless precision.”—The Seattle Times A H

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