Michael Marshall wrote the very creepy The Straw Men and its sequels and this book, The Intruders [ISBN 978 0 00 720997 2] has a very similar feel. Its brilliantly put together, unguessable plot, tight quickly-moving narrative that keeps you on the end of the seat, and a scary mystery at the heart which makes this not a first choice for bedtime reading for the nervous.
Michael Marshall wrote the very creepy The Straw Men and its sequels and this book, The Intruders [ISBN 978 0 00 720997 2] has a very similar feel. Its brilliantly put together, unguessable plot, tight quickly-moving narrative that keeps you on the end of the seat, and a scary mystery at the heart which makes this not a first choice for bedtime reading for the nervous.
Jack Whalen was a LAPD detective, who left the service and wrote a book and is waiting for the muse to arrive for the second time. He and his wife have moved out of the city, but Amy still needs to travel all over for her business. One day she goes missing and he gets seriously worried about some stuff he finds on her phone found in a taxi. She turns up a day late, but he is very unsettled. Then Gary Fisher, and old school friend, now a lawyer turns up and wants him to help him solve a problem with a will – part of the problem is that there are unsolved murders connected with this will. At the same time a ten year old girl goes missing after being with a mysterious stranger. The story gets more complicated as it begins to appear that some of this is connected – but it takes some deep digging in more and more scary avenues to begin to try unravel the mystery. If indeed it can be understood.
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