The Night Stranger / Chris Bohjalian / 375 pages

Chip Linton is an airline pilot whose plane crashed into the water after flying into a flock of geese which caused the plane's engines to shut down.  Thirty-nine people died in the crash.  Flash forward several months and Chip, his wife, and twin daughters have moved to a small town in New Hampshire.  They have bought an old Victorian house that has a mysterious room in the basement that is sealed shut with thirty-nine bolts.  Added to that is that the people of the town are unusually interested with Chip's twin daughters.  Many of the women of the town are "herbalists" and obsessed with the herbs they grow in their green houses.  Chip starts to see and talk to three of the passengers that died in the crash.  These elements all come together to tell a page turning scary story.