Josie and Jack

Name: Josie and Jack
Rating: 3.8 (203 reviews)
Author: Kelly Braffet

Authors: Kelly Braffet
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Type: Novel
Genres: Mystery
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Rating: 3.8 based on 203 reviews
Release Date: February 1, 2005
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About the book

In Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet gives us a deliciously dark, suspenseful debut novel in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith. Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home. The only adult in their lives is their rage-prone father, a physicist, whose erratic behavior finally drives them away. Without a moral compass to guide them, Jack leads Josie into a menacing world of wealth, eroticism, and betrayal. His sociopathic tendencies emerge, and soon Josie must decide which is stronger: the love and devotion she feels for her brother or her will to survive. From its opening page to its shocking climax, this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story is compulsively readable and hugely entertaining.

Praise for this book:

"I couldn't stop reading this marvelous book." - Peter Straub

About the author

Kelly Braffet

Kelly Braffet's first novel, Josie and Jack, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2005. She was born in Long Beach, California, in 1976, and has lived in Arizona, rural Pennsylvania and Oxford, ...