The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

A woman who has spent her life in the horrifying shadow of a haunted house is tormented by death, paranoia, and shocking personal revelations in this spooky but familiar domestic horror drama from bestseller Henry (The House That Horror Built). As a child, Jessie Campanelli dared her younger brother, Paul, to go into the dilapidated and reportedly haunted McIntyre House, the site of a slaughter years earlier, only for Paul to never return. Shattered by his disappearance, Jessie’s family disintegrates, leaving her in the care of Ted Dobrowski, single father to bad boy Alex. Jessie grows up and attempts to leave behind the horrors of the past to start a new family—until the McIntyre House begins claiming new souls, dragging Jessie back to its dusty, rotten innards as she tries to end the house’s reign of terror before it claims yet another life dear to her. Atmospheric and full of dread, the novel shines when it focuses on the tensions and terror inherent to Jessie’s family dynamics. Well-trod haunted house story beats frequently give way to cliché, however. It’s a mixed-bag. Agent: Lucienne Diver, Knight Agency. (Nov.)