Author Description

<b>"A complex and chilling tale of friends, family and the often murderous secrets that hide in the dark"</b> <b>from the award-winning author of <i>Bone White </i></b><b>(Robert McCammon, <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author).</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <i>The Piper has come to take the children away . . .</i><br> <br> <br> <br> In the fall of 1993, fifteen-year-old Angelo Mazzone sees his first dead body. The murder is linked to the Piper, the possible abductor of three other children--who haven't been found--over the past few months.<br> <br> <br> <br> Some people in town say the woods are haunted, but Angelo and his friends head in anyway, to search the darkness for a monster. What they find there will change who they are--and everything they once believed in . . .<br> <br> <br> <br> "A frightening, thoroughly engaging read with a deeply moving series of narrative motifs running throughout, ones that needle the mind and tug at the heart in the best way . . . A triumph of suspense, an affectionate ode to adolescence and by far Ronald Malfi's strongest effort to date." --<i>Horror Novel Reviews</i><br> <br> <br> <br> "Malfi is a man of many voices, a sort of literary version of Mel Blanc (the 'man of a thousand voices'), but all of his voices are captivating, though none of them quite the same. Horror and crime fans will find much to like here." --<i>Booklist</i>