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The Throat

Peter Straub

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#878 of 8,085 books · #50 in Horror

Won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (1993). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Tim Underhill, now an acclaimed novelist, travels back to his hometown of Millhaven, Illinois after he gets a call from John Ransom, an old army buddy. Ransom believes there's a copycat killer on the loose, mimicking the Blue Rose murders from decades earlier—he thinks his wife could be a potential victim. Underhill seeks out his old friend Tom Pasmore, an aging hermit who has attained minor celebrity as an expert sleuth, to help him investigate. They quickly discover that Millhaven is a town plagued by horrifying secrets and there is a twisted killer on the loose who is far more dangerous than they ever imagined.

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9780307776662
Topics
Serial killersSmall-town secretsInvestigation and mystery

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