{"product_id":"2940170413362","title":"The Boy at the Keyhole: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Shirley Jackson, Sarah Waters, and Daphne du Maurier, an electrifying debut about a boy left alone in his family¿s English estate with a housekeeper he suspects has murdered his mother.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family¿s housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead, and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband¿s faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not say good-bye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her study. Samuel¿s life is otherwise regulated by Ruth, who runs the house with an iron fist. Only she and Samuel know how brutally she enforces order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs rumors in town begin to swirl, Samuel wonders whether something more sinister is afoot. Perhaps his mother did not leave but was murderedamp;mdash;by Ruth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtful, haunting, and hurtling toward a psychological showdown, \u003ci\u003eThe Boy at the Keyhole\u003c\/i\u003e is an incandescent debut about the precarious dance between truth and perception and the shocking acts that occur behind closed doors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104921764080,"sku":"2940170413362","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170413362_p0.jpg?v=1763709273","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170413362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}