TY - BOOK AU - Darnielle,John TI - Devil house SN - 9780374212230 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Authors KW - Fiction KW - True crime stories KW - Cold cases (Criminal investigation) KW - Murder KW - California KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - "Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him when he was a child. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success--and a movie adaptation--to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell--his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. He begins his research into the murders with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected--back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is"--Dust jacket flap ER -