The Price

by Alexandra Sokoloff

Book Overview

Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan dreams of becoming the next great governor of Massachusetts. He has a beautiful wife, Joanna, an adorable daughter, Sydney, and a name that the citizens of Massachusetts respect. But Will's plans are shattered the night Joanna discovers a malignant tumor growing in Sydney's stomach. At that devastating moment, both parents resolve to do anything to save their daughter's life.But in the twilight world of Briarwood Medical Center, nothing is as it seems.Patients on the brink of death are not only surviving, but thriving, while others are withering away. The more time Will spends in the labyrinthine hospital, the more he fears he's losing his grip on reality. When a mysterious, charismatic counselor appears and starts talking to Joanna, she grows more and more distant, until she hardly resembles the woman that Will married. Yet suddenly, miraculously, Sydney is improving.As winter closes in around the hospital and his dark suspicions build, Will must gather the strength to confront the evil at hand before he loses his family, his political aspirations, his sanity, and possibly his life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312357516
• ISBN13: 9780312357511
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

channeling Ira Levin

Alexandra Sokoloff writes with tension, grace, and power, weaving a supernatural embroidery to her fabric of family love and potential loss. She's one of the best suspense writers in the game, and she's getting better with every book. Scott Nicholson Author of Scattered Ashes

No Price Too High

This was a great book. Intense, heart-wrenching, fast-paced and thought provoking, it had all the elements to make a truly remarkable thriller. Ms. Sokoloff managed to write a truly frightening tale without the use of gore. I recommend The Price to anyone who enjoys reading. No, I didn't forget to add a genre (or any other word for that matter) on the end of that sentence. There's something for everyone within these pages.

Great read!

This is a great book, really well written. Creepy, scary, reminds me of Dean Koontz or maybe even Stephen King. I really enjoyed Sokoloff's first book The Harrowing but I liked this one even better. Highly recommended.

a creepy, fast-paced read

I'm always on the lookout for novels that are truly scary without having to resort to unnecessary gore. I happened upon Alexandra Sokoloff's first novel The Harrowing, and it was exactly the kind of read that I was looking for, and I instantly became a fan of hers. I picked up The Price the day it was released, and once again, Ms. Sokoloff has shown readers how truly adept she is at creating atmospheric thrillers. The pace was fast and well-plotted, and the character development of Will Sullivan was very well done - readers are made privy to his thoughts and fears, making him a protagonist that is easy to care about. The story itself was disturbing and never predictable, and when the novel ended, it did so in a manner fully in-keeping with the overall menacing mood of the piece. The Harrowing was an impressive debut, and The Price illustrates quite well that Ms. Sokoloff is an exceedingly talented author who is a welcome addition to the worlds of horror, suspense, and psychological thrillers.

Excellent, Creepy, Chilling, Entrancing

I loved Sokoloff's first novel for its crisp, foreboding style and smart, realistic characters. Her writing is so much more focused and fresh in comparison to most other horror writers. She's outdone herself with her new book, which is even better and richer. If you've always thought of hospitals as creepy places with their own dark soul, you won't want to miss this. It's a fast, fun, frightening read and highly recommended.