02174cam a2200313 4500 546479422 TxAuBib 20200722120000.0 200630s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020002697 9781250318039 hardcover 1250318033 hardcover (OCoLC)1160207358 DLC eng rda FMG FMG OCLCO TxAuBib North, Alex, 1976- The shadows / Alex North. First U.S. edition, First international edition. New York : Celadon Books, 2020. 323 pages ; 25 cm. "The haunting new thriller from Alex North, author of the New York Times bestseller The Whisper Man You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it's attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet--and inspired more than one copycat. Paul Adams remembers the case all too well: Crabtree--and his victim--were Paul's friends. Paul has slowly put his life back together. But now his mother, old and senile, has taken a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it is time to come home. It's not long before things start to go wrong. Reading the news, Paul learns another copycat has struck. His mother is distressed, insistent that there's something in the house. And someone is following him. Which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago. It wasn't just the murder. It was the fact that afterward, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again.."-- 20200722. Murder Fiction. Teenage boys Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. England Fiction. Suspense fiction. TXGAI