The Gingerbread Girl - Stephen King

This is one of King's "short" stories. The short is in quotations because for other people, this would be a normal length story. But coming from the man who wrote It, this is a lazy afternoon's worth of work. It is in keeping with his style, simply not as long because the incident the book covers takes place over a short period of time.  It has all the frustrating desperation interspersed with obscure but relevant details that he is so good at creating. If you've never read a Stephen King novel, this would be an excellent one to test out to see if you like his style.