A young boy goes missing; police efforts to
find him are fruitless until the body turns up weeks later close to where he
disappeared. Worrying for the local community, particularly as it echoes serial
cases twenty years earlier when the ‘whisper man’ was at large.
But he is still behind bars, and still keeping
schtum about where his final victim lies. DI Pete Willis, who put him away,
still visits prison periodically to get him to tell, and now must visit again
due to the copycat ‘whispering man’ element of the recent crime.
Into the area moves single dad Tom Kennedy and
his son Jake, the latter sensitive and still affected by the death of his
mother. Their new house has an unfortunate connection to the whisper man case
and when Jake hears whispering in the night…
It gets spooky; and complicated as Tom’s own
childhood trauma gets stirred up. Throw in an attractive single mum at the
school gate and a hardnosed female DI on the case and the story moves on apace, the narrative
switching all the time among Tom Kennedy, Jake, the two police officers, and
the unknown new whisper man.
The mix of crime, family relations, and the
potentially paranormal works surprisingly well to give a good, mildly scary,
read.
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