by Alex North ★★★★☆
If you want to read a creepy book, grab this instead of the silliness that is Mexican Gothic. Outside of Stephen King, not many authors can make my skin crawl, but Alex North certainly did with this, his second straight solid offering after last year’s The Whisper Man.
Twenty-five years ago, a small town was rocked by the grisly murder of a teenage boy and his friend, the main suspect, disappeared. Fast-forward to the present day, and another murder of a teenager has taken place with all of the same signature components. North takes the reader on a twisty whodunit journey where the perp could truly be anyone, especially once you learn about the nightmare-inducing “Red Hands”, a creature who appears in lucid dreams and takes great joy in making otherwise innocent people do very bad things.
It’s certainly worth a read if you want the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up.
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