Author: Stephen Giles
Publisher: Hanover House
Date of publication: September 2014
Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in
Surrey with the family’s housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother
has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband’s faltering
business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping and did not
say goodbye.
Beyond her sporadic postcards, Samuel hears nothing from his
mother. He misses her dearly and maps her journey in an atlas he finds in her
study. Samuel’s life is otherwise regulated by Ruth, who runs the house with an
iron fist. Only she and Samuel know how brutally she enforces order.
As rumors in town begin to swirl, Samuel wonders whether
something more sinister is afoot. Perhaps his mother did not leave but was
murdered—by Ruth.
Artful, haunting and hurtling toward a psychological
showdown, The Boy at the Keyhole is an incandescent debut about the precarious
dance between truth and perception, and the shocking acts that occur behind
closed doors.
“A fiendishly efficient, gorgeously written,
nasty little thrill ride of a psychological thriller. I couldn’t put it down,
and it’s entirely possible that I’ll never sleep again. A true tour-de-force of
a debut novel.”–Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham and Jane
Steele
“The Boy at the Keyhole is sinister and tight,
amusing and intense, an emotional story of a sweet boy in a precarious
psychological place. A fun and wicked read that is impossible to put down!”–Matthew
Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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About Stephen Giles
Stephen Giles is the Australian author behind the lauded
children’s series “Anyone But Ivy Pocket”, penned under the pseudonym Caleb
Krisp. The series, published in the US by HarperCollins/Greenwillow and the UK
by Bloomsbury, appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List, has been
translated into 25 different languages and was optioned by Paramount Pictures.
Prior to selling his first book, Stephen worked in a variety
of jobs to supplement his writing including market research, film
classification and media monitoring. “The Boy at the Keyhole” is Giles’
first work for adults and the film rights for this book have been acquired by
New Regency.
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