
The Outsider
An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens: Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson and the district attorney are able to add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. But Maitland has an alibi, and it turns out his story has incontrovertible evidence of its own. How can two opposing stories be true?
- Publisher
- The House of Books
- ISBN-13
- 9789044356045
- Topics
- Murder investigationSupernatural evilIdentity and doubt
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Horror NovelShortlisted(2019)
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- 11/22/63 (2011)1 win · 12 score
- Misery (2016)1 win · 11 score
- Mr. Mercedes (2014)1 win · 11 score
- Doctor Sleep (2013)1 win · 10 score
- It (2017)1 win · 10 score
- Duma Key (2008)1 win · 8 score
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2006)1 win · 8 score
- The Green Mile (1999)1 win · 8 score
- Cujo (2016)1 win · 7 score
- Pet Sematary (2014)0 wins · 5 score
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2006)0 wins · 5 score
- Firestarter (2016)0 wins · 4 score
- The Institute (2019)0 wins · 4 score
- Under the Dome (2014)0 wins · 4 score
- From a Buick 8 (2017)0 wins · 3 score
- Insomnia (2016)0 wins · 3 score
- Low Men in Yellow Coats (2018)0 wins · 3 score
- Needful Things (2016)0 wins · 3 score
- Salem's Lot (2008)0 wins · 3 score
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (2016)0 wins · 3 score
- The Mist (2007)0 wins · 3 score
- The Stand (2025)0 wins · 3 score
- Billy Summers (2021)0 wins · 2 score
- Christine (2010)0 wins · 2 score
- Dark Forces (2022)0 wins · 2 score
- Joyland (2015)0 wins · 2 score
- Later (2021)0 wins · 2 score
- Never Flinch (2025)0 wins · 2 score
- Revival (2015)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (2006)0 wins · 2 score
- The Dead Zone (2016)0 wins · 2 score
- The Shining (1977)0 wins · 2 score
- The Tommyknockers (2016)0 wins · 2 score
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