num_pages: 320
description: A woman driving upstate with her five-year-old daughter takes a shortcut that leads to disaster when her car breaks down in a rainstorm. When they seek refuge in a nearby farmhouse, she and her daughter become "playmates" in a violent whirlpool of unrelenting terror. Now a major motion picture titled The Maddening' starring Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, and Mia Sara.
language: English
title: Playmates
titlecomplete: Playmates
genres: Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Mental Health, Horror, Mystery
ratings_count: 243
publisher: Time Warner Books UK (first published 1987)