The Barrens

In this gripping psychological thriller, Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most versatile and original voices in contemporary American fiction, delivers a startling, complex tale of a serial killer and the people that his ghastly crimes touch — and transform. People like Matt McBride. Matt was barely out of junior high when the mutilated body of the first victim — a popular, pretty teenager — was uncovered in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens. Although ...