The Whisper Man

Still reeling from the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy moves with his lonely, imaginative young son Jake to the small town of Featherbank, hoping for a fresh start in a house that feels, from the first, subtly wrong. What Tom doesn't fully grasp is Featherbank's history: two decades ago it was hunting ground for a child-killer known as the Whisper Man, who lured his victims by whispering at their windows at night.

The Whisper Man, Frank Carter, has long been behind bars. But when another local boy vanishes in eerily familiar circumstances, the old case reopens, and the detectives who caught Carter are pulled back into his orbit. Then Jake begins talking about a voice at his own window, and Tom must reckon with how close the danger has come.

Alex North's bestselling thriller braids a police investigation with an intimate story of grief and fatherhood, building a genuinely unnerving mystery about the things that haunt fathers and sons.