{"product_id":"bedbugs-isbn-9781594745232","title":"Bedbugs","description":"FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBig mistake. Susan soon discovers that her new home is crawling with bedbugs . . . or is it? She awakens every morning with fresh bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter Emma has a single welt. An exterminator searches the property and turns up nothing. The landlady insists her building is clean. Susan fears she’s going mad—until a more sinister explanation presents itself: she may literally be confronting the bedbug problem from Hell.“By turns gruesome and compelling, fueled by a slow-burn tension, and full of in-jokes about contemporary Brooklyn culture, Winters's breezy summer read will leave readers compulsively scratching.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The author of the monster mash-up hit \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) offers up a chilling tale of life in the perfect New York abode gone horribly wrong…Winters expertly builds suspense in this chilling thriller.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBedbugs \u003c\/i\u003einfest the life of a young couple who move into a peculiar brownstone in Brooklyn in Ben H. Winter's diabolical tale of paranoia and domestic unrest.”—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e Hot Type\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I would not recommend reading \u003ci\u003eBedbugs \u003c\/i\u003ein bed; it’s that gripping—and grotesque. . . This creepy story is expertly told, and will having you scratching imaginary itches long after you finish reading.”—\u003ci\u003ePenthouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“After reading\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBedbugs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eyou might want to fumigate any apartment you rent. You also might want to call in an exorcist.”—\u003ci\u003eMcClatchy Newspapers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The book is a lot of fun and a great fall read for when you’re bundled under a pile of blankets that may or may not be full of creepy-crawlies.”—DenofGeek.com\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“All in all, \u003ci\u003eBedbugs \u003c\/i\u003eis a solid read, a good thriller, and I guarantee you will have the creepy ‘I need to bleach my pillowcases in hot water’ crawlies for days after.”—DaemonBooks.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rich blend of classic psychological suspense and horror. If Alfred Hitchcock were still with us, this is a book he would adapt to film.”—MonsterLibrarian.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Bedbugs\u003c\/i\u003e is one disgusting, fascinating novel. Be warned, and put the exterminator’s number on speed-dial.”—\u003ci\u003eSacramento News \u0026amp; Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You’ll want to crawl under the covers while reading the super-spooky new novel \u003ci\u003eBedbugs\u003c\/i\u003e, by Ben H. Winters—but you won’t, because it does for the bed what \u003ci\u003ePsycho \u003c\/i\u003edid for the shower!”—\u003ci\u003eInStyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBedbugs \u003c\/i\u003eis a psychological thriller with Hitchcockian suspense.”—Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“...the bloodcurdling \u003ci\u003eBedbugs\u003c\/i\u003e manages to succeed in doing what rarely happens off the screen: Keep things spooky enough that it’s impossible to go to sleep without knowing how it ends. Even then, you may leave the lights on and sleep on the floor.”—NewCity.com\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Clean and taut with soul-baring inner monologues...Winters delivers prose that delicately piles on the novel's mounting intensity, using both light humor and doom...\u003ci\u003eBedbugs\u003c\/i\u003e gets under our skin with the best of old-fashioned horror and newfangled gore.”—\u003ci\u003eCreative Loafing’s Daily Loaf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen H. Winters\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling, Edgar Award–winning, and Philip K. Dick Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Boy, Golden State, Underground Airlines\u003c\/i\u003e, the Last Policeman trilogy, and the mash-up novel \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e. Ben has also worked extensively in television; he was a writer on the FX cult hit \u003ci\u003eLegion\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eManhunt \u003c\/i\u003eon Apple TV+, and he is the creator of the CBS drama \u003ci\u003eTracker.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.","brand":"Quirk Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300697821413,"sku":"NP9781594745232","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594745232_1e756170-1f31-40e8-9591-92ad8885e7a0.jpg?v=1742921083","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/bedbugs-isbn-9781594745232","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}