Product Description

Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery.

Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it's too late. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he'll do it.

So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored serial killer.

A game that will have more terrifying consequences than Steven could ever imagine...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413480 in Books
• Published on: 2010-01-02
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.37" h x 1.14" w x 6.26" l, 1.19 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
Original, unsettling and atmospheric, this is a debut that hits the ground running
--VAL MCDERMID

From the Inside Flap

Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body.

Every day after school and at weekends, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven digs to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery.

Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her.

Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it's too late. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he'll do it.

So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored serial killer.

A game that will have more terrifying consequences than Stephen could ever imagine...

From the Back Cover

DEAR MR AVERY

I AM LOOKING FOR WP. CAN YOU HELP ME/

SINCERELY

SL, 111 BARNSTABLE ROAD, SHIPCOTT, SOMERSET

He was only twelve, he reasoned; he couldn't be expected to get stuff like writing to serial killers right first time.