description: Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here — and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
title: Bag of Bones
titlecomplete: Bag of Bones
characters: Mattie Devore, Sara Tidwell, Mike Noonan, Kyra Devore, Max Devore, Jo Noonan
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Fantasy, Supernatural, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 194556
places: Derry, Maine
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel