Teddy is sweet and soon the two of them are making up stories, swimming in the pool, and wandering through the nature park behind the home. The mother is a psychologist who works with recovering military vets but it’s the father who grills Mallory during the job interview.Īmazingly Mallory gets the job and starts working and living a dream. Now she has a chance at a job as a nanny for an affluent couple in a rich town in New Jersey which is light years away from the South Philly neighborhood in which she grew up. She’s wrecked her relationship with her family but is almost eighteen months sober and clean.
Then the story fast forwards to her in rehab. We meet her in a bizarre psychological medical experiment when she’s still addicted to whatever she can get her hands on. Mallory Quinn is not the typical older young adult I’ve read about. As a result, I was riveted to the twists and turns of the novel. When I saw your name on this arc, I knew I wanted to read it even though it seemed very different from the first book of yours I read, “The Impossible Fortress.” Despite having read the blurb, I had a totally different idea of what was going to unfold. With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy-while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past-before it’s too late. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house.
But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.Īs the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves.
She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.
Jayne B+ Reviews / Book Reviews addict / Contemporary / Dark / Drugs / dysfunctional family / First-Person / horror elements / murder mystery / nanny / New-Jersey / Paranormal / present tense / Young-Adult 6 Commentsįrom Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.įresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell.
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