A Brief Lunacy: A Novel

An elderly couple is taken captive in a psychological thriller that "coils tighter and tighter until the tension is almost unbearable" (Tess Gerritsen).

Jessie and Carl have made a terrible mistake. When Jonah came to their cabin in the Maine woods, asking to use the phone, they should never have let him in. But he told them his campsite had been robbed and he was stranded with no money and no gear. Jessie took pity on him. She was thinking about her own missing schizophrenic daughter, an...