The Store

By: Bentley Little

Narrated by: David Stifel

In a small Arizona town, a man counts his blessings: a loving wife, two teenage daughters, and a job that allows him to work at home. Then "The Store" announces plans to open a local outlet, which will surely finish off the small downtown shops. His concerns grow when "The Store's" builders ignore all the town's zoning laws during its construction. Then dead animals are found on "The Store's" grounds. Inside, customers are hounded by obnoxious sales people, and strange products appear on the shelves. Before long the town's remaining small shop owners disappear, and "The Store" spreads its influence to the city council and the police force, taking over the town! It's up to one man to confront "The Store's" mysterious owner and to save his community, his family, and his life!

©1998, 2017 Bentley Little (P)2017 Journalstone Publishing

Never a dull moment

I enjoyed every page from start to end. The characters are believable and easy to connect to, but there is no wasting of words on overly descriptive and unnecessary details of their personal environments, relationships or conditions. The delightfully, creepy thing is how this tale drew from that little, dark place in my mind that tells me 'this could happen here; could almost be happening now'. From that aspect, it was a bit reminiscent of some of Stephen King's novels, you know, like it could be my town, my neighborhood.

The Store delivers the goods

This is only the second book I've read from Bentley Little (The Resort was first), and I feel I'm really catching my stride with his writing. The Store is an interesting and demented take on our country's Walmart-complex and how far we're willing to go for the lowest prices and convenience. At least on the surface. Under the creepy surface is a smart social study of community in a time of fear and struggle. Visually disturbing moments of pure shock, good characters and terrifying Night Managers round out what was indeed a very enjoyable story.

could not read it at night!

this is a really great book! the timing the tempo. I am now a Bentley Little fan and working on the next one.

Eary

Kept me wanting to find out what was coming. Real page turner makes a person think

very enjoyable

wow what an effect the store had on the town. couldn't belive what they were getting away with. well read. moved quickly.