Hobbes was living in a sprawling mansion - but one that remains half-ruined by a decades-old fire, wind and rain howling through the gaping, creaking roof. Alan Hobbes, a distinguished and wealthy philosophy professor, has been brutally murdered. Page is facing an unusually disturbing crime scene. Then she gets a call, from Detective Laurence Page. Now they're adults, and they haven't spoken in years. Although Chris survived the attack, the scars ran deeper than the ones left across his face. Katie always looked after her beloved younger brother Chris - until she left him alone for one selfish afternoon, and their picture-perfect family fell apart. NB: This book is also known as The Shadow Friend. It was the fact that afterward, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again. Which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago. 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.
You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree.
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