Midnight Voices (John Saul)

This was one WEIRD story. Not really a good story, just a weird one. The premise of the book is that a group of people who all live in one apartment building in New York are actually dead, but being kept alive by children that they take in and eventually suck the life out of. Literally. The "dead people" live in a fancy building called The Rockwell that many neighborhood children believe is haunted.

As the story opens a recently widowed woman with two children (a boy and a girl) is swept off her feet by a man living in The Rockwell. They quickly marry and move into the building. The children are immediately uncomfortable, but their mother tries to reassure them and believes their hesitancy is due to all the changes in their lives. Both children begin hearing voices in the walls and experiencing wild nightmares. They also become sick and are treated by a doctor in the building. As time moves forward, the mother begins to realize that something unusual is going on. Once this becomes clear to her, she fights to protect her children.

I like a good suspense novel, but this was not remotely believeable. Not for a second did this seem real to me. Oh well....it wasn't a long book.