num_pages: 660
description: When bestselling crime writer Mike Noonan`s wife dies, he suffers from writer`s block. Until he is drawn from Derry to his lakeside retreat, Sara Laughs - a house once inhabited by a famous singer. It`s a community run by rich, tyrannical, wheelchair-bound Devore and his terrifying, skeletal female bookkeeper. Devore is hell-bent on getting custody of his grandchild. Three year old Kyra and her young mother, Mattie, turn to Mike for help - and Mike, besotted by Mattie, is powerless to resist. But there are others at Sara Laughs determined to prevent Mike`s success - and Kyra can feel them too....
language: English
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
publisher: Hodder