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Book Review of The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door
Author: Jack Ketchum
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Horror
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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This fiction story is based on the true story of Sylvia Likens, a 16 year old girl who was tortured and murdered in the 1960.
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FROM BACK COVER:

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. ON a dead-end street, in the dark, amp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distand aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons-and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stand hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, tourturous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make...