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FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 6/19/03, 12:37 PM

This question was submitted to us by a patron through our online service.
Any ideas?

Your Question: I have been trying to remember the name of a book I read
about 5 years ago. It was a horror story that starts out with a mother
and her 13 year old son driving home in a blizzard. When they get home
there is someone or something in the house. Sorry I don't remember more,
but would really appreciate a title/author. I never finished the book
and would like to read it again. Thanks so much for your time.

I forgot to add that the son has a broken leg.

FROM: "Rebecca Vnuk" <[removed]@elmhurst.org>
REC'D: 6/19/03, 1:26 PM

I'm pretty sure this is a story by Dean Koontz, entitled "Trapped". It's in a collection by Koontz titled "Strange Highways".

Tommy (who indeed has a broken leg) and his mother are driving home in a blizzard, when they reach their house (in the deep dark woods, wouldn't you know...) they find it's been overtaken by biologically engineered rats. (oh yeah, not only do they live in the deep dark woods, their closest neighbor is a genetic engineering lab.)

Hope that's the one!
Rebecca

Rebecca Vnuk
Reader's Advisory Librarian
Elmhurst Public Library

"One of the great joys of being a
librarian is that it is the last refuge of the
renaissance person - everything you
have ever read or learned or picked up
is likely to come in handy."
- GraceAnne DeCandido

FROM: "Rebecca Vnuk" <[removed]@elmhurst.org>
REC'D: 6/19/03, 1:31 PM

I'm pretty sure this is a story by Dean Koontz, entitled "Trapped". It's in a collection by Koontz titled "Strange Highways".

Tommy (who indeed has a broken leg) and his mother are driving home in a blizzard, when they reach their house (in the deep dark woods, wouldn't you know...) they find it's been overtaken by biologically engineered rats. (oh yeah, not only do they live in the deep dark woods, their closest neighbor is a genetic engineering lab.)

Hope that's the one!
Rebecca

Rebecca Vnuk
Reader's Advisory Librarian
Elmhurst Public Library

"One of the great joys of being a
librarian is that it is the last refuge of the
renaissance person - everything you
have ever read or learned or picked up
is likely to come in handy."
- GraceAnne DeCandido

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