Lastly, given the nature of the story - murders of young children and the loss of Tom’s wife and Jake’s mom – there’s also a powerful element of grief which really wrenched at my heart in places. I especially enjoyed being in Jake’s head as I found him quite a mysterious, precocious, and fascinating little boy.Īnd then there’s the broken detective full of regret who put the serial killer behind bars. In being privy to their thoughts, we can’t help but experience and be moved by the intense human element in this story, especially surrounding the dysfunctional relationships between fathers and their sons. Now what’s interesting about this story, is that it’s told from the POV of several of the characters: Jake, Tom, Pete and another detective on the new case, Amanda Beck. How do you relate to your son when he talks to people who aren’t there? Of maybe they are. Tom, of course, is beside himself and it’s evident that the two of them have an uncomfortable relationship. Oh, and Jake also has an imaginary friend who tells him details about the Whisper Man that only the police know. Jake begins to act up and claims to hear whispering outside his window. Shortly after they move in, weird things begin to happen.
The story also revolves around Tom Kennedy, a grieving widower and his seven-year-old son Jake who recently moved into town and into a new house. Now Willis can’t help but wonder whether the old crimes and this new one are related. Still haunted by Carter’s grisly crimes, Detective Inspector Willis has always suspected that the murderer may have had an accomplice but could never prove anything. Neil Spencer, a six-year-old boy, has been abducted and the crime bears a shocking resemblance to the Whisper Man’s crimes of so long ago. Eventually caught by Detective Peter Willis after the fifth murder, the Whisper Man, whose real name is Frank Carter, is now locked up prison.įast forward to the present day.
He was so-named because each of the victims reported hearing whispering outside of their bedroom window at night before they disappeared. Twenty years ago, a serial killer dubbed “The Whisper Man” abducted and murdered five young boys. The story takes place in the town of Featherback, which has quite a gruesome past. Because over the years, I’ve told you many times that there’s no such thing as monsters. “It’s not going to be easy and I need to start with an apology. Okay, so I was hooked from the very first page of this book when I read the following lines of a letter from a father to his son:
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