HAVOC
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HAVOC
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Narrated by:
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Maggi-Med Reed
About this listen
The New York Times' #1 Thriller of 2024
'Highsmithian… highly readable, twisty and shrewd' HANYA YANAGIHARA (on Instagram), author of A Little Life
'Atmospheric, diabolical fun' LUCY FOLEY, author of The Midnight Feast
'Disturbingly enjoyable' EMMA HEALEY, author of Elizabeth is Missing
'A taut, wicked masterpiece' MONA AWAD, author of Bunny
Five years ago, 81-year-old Maggie Burkhardt fled her native Wisconsin in suspicious circumstances. She has come to rest somewhere she can imagine staying forever: the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor, Egypt.
Maggie is no sweet little old lady. She has a nasty, nosy habit: she spies on her fellow guests and manipulates situations to 'liberate' them from what she sees as unhappy relationships.
Wrongly assuming eight-year-old Otto and his well-meaning mother will be easy targets, she is soon locked in a death-spiral with her young prey. Has she finally met her match in a child one-tenth her age?
Crackling with the perceptive, acid wit of The White Lotus and haloed by Shirley Jackson’s cruel, dark magic, HAVOC is a decadent and ghastly delight.
©2025 Christopher Bollen (P)2024 HarperCollins PublishersI appreciate the concept for this novel, and the writing was okay. it starts out slowly and eventually becomes silly, with an ending that fizzles - it was unpleasant and ill-conceived, like suddenly being dropped into a different novel. it wasn't clever, it was ick.
An odd book. Something better was lurking at the concept stage, but didn't make it to the page.
Promising, but a bit of a mess
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