Bone White

Paul Gallo sees a news report about a mass murderer who is leading police to the graves of his victims. The graves lie in Dread's Hand, Alaska, a place that is barely a town at all. It is the same stretch of wilderness where Paul's twin brother, Danny, vanished a year earlier.

As the bodies are dug up, Paul flies north hoping to find closure and lay his grief to rest. He does not get it. The locals he meets are superstitious and speak of the devil stealing souls. A line of wooden crosses stands against whatever waits in the woods, meant to keep it from coming out.

Nobody in Dread's Hand can say exactly what happened to Danny. Paul keeps asking questions, and the more he digs, the more he is drawn into the mystery himself.

This is a horror novel built on isolation and dread. The setting is a cold, dark, remote corner of Alaska, with gray days and a sense of unease that builds as Paul gets closer to the truth. It reads as a missing-person search that slides into the supernatural.