Hidden Pictures audiobook cover - Fresh out of rehab and desperate for a new start, Mallory Quinn lands a nanny job with a perfect family in a perfect town. Their sweet five-year-old draws like a budding Picasso. Then his pictures turn into scenes of a woman being murdered—and the drawings seem to be getting made by someone else’s hand.

Hidden Pictures

Fresh out of rehab and desperate for a new start, Mallory Quinn lands a nanny job with a perfect family in a perfect town. Their sweet five-year-old draws like a budding Picasso. Then his pictures turn into scenes of a woman being murdered—and the drawings seem to be getting made by someone else’s hand.

Jason Rekulak

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Hidden Pictures is a fast, eerie, and surprisingly tender thriller about a young woman fighting to trust herself again. Mallory, twenty-one and twenty months sober, accepts a live-in nanny job in Spring Brook, New Jersey. Teddy, the five-year-old in her care, is shy, bright, and obsessed with drawing. At first the pictures are horses and trees. Soon they’re a man dragging a woman’s body through the forest under a starry sky. Mallory suspects an old local legend: a woman named Annie vanished from the property in the late 1940s. As the drawings grow disturbingly realistic, Mallory realizes Teddy is sketching in a style no little kid could master. She sets a hidden camera, consults a prickly neighbor psychic, confides in a landscaper who might become more than a friend, and takes on two polished parents with secrets of their own. What she finds upends the town myth—and her own sense of reality. This is a story about recovery, maternal love, buried crimes, and how far people will go to protect a child, even when the truth is staring right at them in black charcoal lines.

Who Should Listen to Hidden Pictures?

  • Fans of twisty, heartfelt thrillers with a brush of the supernatural
  • Listeners who like flawed, brave protagonists and small-town secrets
  • Book clubs that enjoy debating motive, memory, and moral gray areas

About the Author: Jason Rekulak

Jason Rekulak is the author of The Impossible Fortress and longtime former publisher of Quirk Books. He lives in Philadelphia and brings a sharp eye for nostalgia, pop culture, and character-driven suspense to his fiction.

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