This is absorbing, headlong reading, a play on classic horror with an inventiveness of its own...
He lives in Leeds, England, with his wife and son, and is a British crime writer who has previously published under another name..
About author(s): Alex North is the internationally bestselling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows .
It was the fact that afterward, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again...
It wasn\'t just the murder.
Which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago.
And someone is following him.
His mother is distressed, insistent that there\'s something in the house.
Paul learns that Detective Amanda Beck is investigating another copycat that has struck in the nearby town of Featherbank.
It\'s not long before things start to go wrong.
Though every inch of him resists, it is time to come home.
But now his mother, old and suffering from dementia, has taken a turn for the worse.
Paul has slowly put his life back together.
Paul Adams remembers the case all too well: Crabtree--and his victim--were Paul\'s friends.
Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it\'s attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet--and inspired more than one copycat.
Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful.
A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. - The New York Times The haunting new thriller from Alex North , author of the New York Times bestseller The Whisper Man You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree.
As with all the best illusions, you are left feeling not tricked, but full of wonder.
This is absorbing, headlong reading, a play on classic horror with an inventiveness of its own..
