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The Whisper Man
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Perfect for fans of CJ Tudor, this debut novel launches itself off the starter blocks and wraps it's fingers around your throat then starts to squeeze...
With more than just a touch of supernatural menace, and a underlying theme of parental repsonisbility gone horribly wrong, 'The Whisper Man' is not, I repeat NOT a book to start at bedtime.
Because you will find that just one chapter turns into 3 a.m very quickly and all the normal noises in the house suddenly sound like an intruder.
And your partner/pet will not thank you for this.
Ahem.
The story concerns Tom Kennedy and his son Jake moving back to Featherbreak village after the death of his wife , Rebecca. Jake is a sensitive child with an imaginery friend, a poem about the Whisper Man which Tom cannot fathom him knowing, and a packet of Special Things which he carries with hime everywhere.
This makes him a natural target for school bullies and some shockingly poor teaching intereference-this is a grief stricken child who needs support not punishment.
Tom and Jake are trying to ease their way into a new normal-however, they have arrived in the midst of an investigation into a missing child.
A young boy has vanished with an eerie familiarity to a series of child murders that occurred decades earlier.
The killer is behind bars-or is he?-and is visited with dogged determination by detective Pete Willis whose one remaining goal is to find the missing child that Frank Carter, 'The Whisper Man' . This six year old boy haunts Pete and finding him creates a Hannibal Lecter-esque cat and mouse game with echoes of the cruelty displayed by the Moors Murderers.
The anguish Pete feels bleeds through the pages.
Who or what is 'The Whisper Man'?
Is this a copycat crime, and did they get their man the first time around?
Filled with scenes of jaw dropping suspense-there is one with a letterbox which left me floored-and a step into the darkest reaches of human depravity, this is an outstanding debut which heralds a major new voice in fiction writing.
With more than just a touch of supernatural menace, and a underlying theme of parental repsonisbility gone horribly wrong, 'The Whisper Man' is not, I repeat NOT a book to start at bedtime.
Because you will find that just one chapter turns into 3 a.m very quickly and all the normal noises in the house suddenly sound like an intruder.
And your partner/pet will not thank you for this.
Ahem.
The story concerns Tom Kennedy and his son Jake moving back to Featherbreak village after the death of his wife , Rebecca. Jake is a sensitive child with an imaginery friend, a poem about the Whisper Man which Tom cannot fathom him knowing, and a packet of Special Things which he carries with hime everywhere.
This makes him a natural target for school bullies and some shockingly poor teaching intereference-this is a grief stricken child who needs support not punishment.
Tom and Jake are trying to ease their way into a new normal-however, they have arrived in the midst of an investigation into a missing child.
A young boy has vanished with an eerie familiarity to a series of child murders that occurred decades earlier.
The killer is behind bars-or is he?-and is visited with dogged determination by detective Pete Willis whose one remaining goal is to find the missing child that Frank Carter, 'The Whisper Man' . This six year old boy haunts Pete and finding him creates a Hannibal Lecter-esque cat and mouse game with echoes of the cruelty displayed by the Moors Murderers.
The anguish Pete feels bleeds through the pages.
Who or what is 'The Whisper Man'?
Is this a copycat crime, and did they get their man the first time around?
Filled with scenes of jaw dropping suspense-there is one with a letterbox which left me floored-and a step into the darkest reaches of human depravity, this is an outstanding debut which heralds a major new voice in fiction writing.
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