The House in the Pines

Maya watched her best friend drop dead in front of a man years ago, and it happens again to another girl, and she cannot explain either. She is also quietly detoxing from the pills that have blurred the memory. Reyes builds the tension out of unreliable recall rather than a hidden killer, and the cabin of the title, half-remembered from a Guatemalan childhood story, gives it a strange fairy-tale underside.