Books like The Bad Seed
When a boy drowns at a school picnic, Christine Penmark starts to wonder about her eight-year-old daughter Rhoda, a model child who wanted the medal he had won.
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Burnt Offerings
Ben and Marian Rolfe and their son rent a grand old country house for the summer at an absurdly low price, on one condition: that they look after the owners' elderly mother, who never leaves her room.
You Will Know Me
Devon Knox, fifteen, is a gymnastics prodigy whose family has given everything to her Olympic dream, and when a young man connected to her gym dies in a hit-and-run, her mother, Katie, begins to see how little she knows about any of them.
Sundial
Rob, a mother in the suburbs who fears what her older daughter Callie is becoming, drives her out to Sundial, the remote desert house where Rob grew up, and begins telling her the family's story.
Psycho
Mary Crane, on the run with money stolen from her boss, stops for the night at an out-of-the-way motel run by Norman Bates, a lonely man who lives with his domineering mother in the house above.
The House in the Pines
Seven years after her best friend died suddenly in front of a strange young man named Frank, Maya, now in Boston and quietly going through withdrawal, sees a video online of another woman collapsing in Frank's company.
Shutter Island
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner travel to a hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Boston Harbor to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room.
Where Are the Children?
Seven years after she was tried for the deaths of her two small children in California, Nancy Harmon has a new husband and two more children on Cape Cod, and on the morning a newspaper exposes her past, they vanish from the backyard.
A Judgement in Stone
The Coverdales, a well-off and well-meaning family in a Suffolk village, hire Eunice Parchman as their housekeeper, not knowing the secret she has kept all her life: she cannot read. The first sentence says she will kill them.
The Scold's Bridle
Mathilda Gillespie, a wealthy and spiteful old woman, is found dead in her bath, wrists cut, her head locked in a medieval scold's bridle crowned with nettles, and her doctor, Sarah Blakeney, learns she has inherited everything.
The Other
In the summer of 1935 in a Connecticut farming village, thirteen-year-old twins Niles and Holland Perry play a secret game their grandmother taught them, as accidents begin to happen around the family.
We Used to Live Here
Charlie and her girlfriend Eve are renovating an old house they bought cheaply, and when a family knocks one evening asking to look around the home the father grew up in, Charlie lets them in, and they do not seem to want to leave.
The Hours Before Dawn
Louise Henderson, worn out by a baby who will not sleep, begins to suspect the schoolteacher who has taken the spare room.