num_pages: 353
description: Who is the uninvited? This twisty page-turner from a master of suspense plumbs the unsettling goings-on at a picture-perfect woodland cottage.Mimi Shapiro had a disturbing freshman year at NYU thanks to a foolish affair with a professor who still haunts her caller ID. So when her artist father Marc offers the use of his remote Canadian cottage shes glad to hop in her Mini Cooper and drive up north. The house is fairy-tale quaint and the key is hidden right where her dad said it would be so shes shocked to find someone already living there  Jay a young musician who is equally startled to meet Mimi and immediately accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens a dead bird a snakeskin a cricket sound track embedded in his latest composition. But Mimi has just arrived so who is responsible? And more alarmingly what does the intruder want? Part gripping thriller part family drama this fast-paced novel plays out in alternating viewpoints in a pastoral setting that is evocative and eerie  a mysterious character in its own right.
language: English
title: The Uninvited
publisher: Candlewick Press