To save the town, its residents, and her own life, she’ll have to distinguish truth from paranoia. It’s as if the people in the small mountain town of Silvertown, Washington-population 602-are losing their survival instinct.ĭespite the town’s infamous reputation for having more conspiracy theories than any other place in America, Mary Whittaker can’t chalk this up to general weirdness. And the helicopter mom who abandons her young twins with no explanation and not a second’s thought. Or the kid who hates nature but dies on a random midnight walkabout. Like the hiker found dead on a trail after being mauled by a bear, a faint smile on his face. New York Times bestselling author Jason Hough revisits this conspiracy trope in his new thriller, INSTINCT, the riveting story of small-town cop Mary Whittaker, who is thrust into the new role of chief of police during a series of abnormal incidents. Even the introduction of New Coke.īut how do conspiracy theories start, and why are people drawn to them? Well, that’s certainly something psychologists have been studying for years-and the kind of material authors have been using in books forever. These aren’t the only conspiracy theories making inroads right now, of course-and history reminds us that many always seem to pop up.
Playlists containing Instinct (Jason M.Other residents seem to have lost all sense of self-preservation as they A normally doting mother leaving her toddler twins behind without noticing. A hiker found dead on a trail, smiling serenely after being mauled by a bear. A teenager dies tragically after eating obviously poisonous mushrooms from his lawn. But with the chief of police on leave, she is left alone to confront a series of abnormal incidents?strange even by Silvertown standards. Officer Mary Whittaker has yet to be fully welcomed by the residents of this tiny, quirky mountain town which seems to be home to more conspiracy theories than any other place in America.
Meets Blake Crouch as an overwhelmed police officer struggles to save her small, isolated mountain town after a series of seemingly unrelated violent incidents and senseless deaths in this twisting, atmospheric thriller from theīestselling author of The Dire Earth Cycle.
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