Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

Hello fellow Crime, Mystery & Thriller readers,

Welcome to our discussion about Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak, your discussion leader is April.
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Summary

Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves this new job. She lives in the Maxwell’s pool house, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.

As the days pass, Teddy’s artwork becomes more and more sinister, and his stick figures steadily evolve into more detailed, complex, and lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to suspect these are glimpses of an unsolved murder from long ago, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force lingering in the forest behind the Maxwell’s house.

With help from a handsome landscaper and an eccentric neighbor, Mallory sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy—while coming to terms with a tragedy in her own past—before it’s too late.

Just finished this one last night, 7/26, and it was good!

I read this recently after a friend recommended it to me and I truly found this book so interesting. Both in how it ended and how it incorporated the pictures within!

Loved this book

I loved this book, and pictures made it even spookier.

I just purchased my copy and will be joining you all sometime this month! I can't wait :-)

I finished Reading Hidden Pictures this afternoon and was surprised by the twist near the end ...

Loved this book!! The pictures made it extra spooky. I flew through it in a day and couldn’t put it down!

Gonna have to go against the grain here and say it was OK didn’t like it too much.

The plot itself is not a perfect-star read but incorperated with the creepy illustrations made me rate it in 5 stars.

I just finished. I thought this book was a great little quick escape. I read it in one day. The pictures, oh my! Creepy! The whole story was a kind of a creeper. I did not see the twist at the end coming at all. Very good. I loved it.

Loved this book so much!! Very original!

Don’t get me started!! It was too good for my own health!