Gilchrist

Peter Martell is a novelist with an unusual talent for finding lost things. Two years after he and his wife, Sylvia, lost their infant son in an accident, they learn that they may not be able to have another child. Hoping to start over and pulled by dreams they cannot explain, they rent a lake house in Gilchrist, Massachusetts, a town that looks peaceful on the surface.

Strange events begin almost as soon as they arrive. The couple meet a gifted six-year-old boy, a run of violent deaths shakes the town, and a creature with a frightening nature keeps appearing before them. Peter and Sylvia are pulled deeper into the disorder, and the story suggests that choosing to come to Gilchrist may not have been entirely their own decision.

Set in a small New England town in the summer of 1966, the novel builds its tension steadily while its emotional center remains the couple's grief. It is a dark tale that asks where violence and evil come from and how persistent memory can be.