The Angel Maker by Alex North on February 28, 2023
Genres: Fiction / Horror, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 352
Format: Audiobook
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A dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings, and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future.
If your familiar with Alex North’s work, this has the same feel as his previous novels The Whisper Man and The Shadows. The main idea in this book is that fate is set and nothing we do can change that. There are quite a few characters and the plot is dark and sinister in this complicated thriller. I felt confused at times on what was happening because of the changing POV’s and time periods, but in the end it all ties together.
It started out with Katie Shaw’s story and her idyllic countryside life, when one day she decided not to walk her brother home after school. She decided to go to her boyfriends house. When she returned home, she found a violent stranger had altered her life forever.
Year later, Katie’s brother Chris, has gone missing and Katie goes on a search for him. She has felt guilty all these years for her brother’s attack. She also gets the feeling she is being watched. Then her daughter keeps repeating “red car” only to her. The man in the red car was the one who attacked her brother. Her husband is questioning her sanity. Can she find her brother and prove her husband wrong?
Meanwhile, Detective Laurence Page is investigating a strange crime. A professor was murdered hours after firing all his staff. He was a professor of Fate and Freewill. The case seems to be linked to and old case of the attack on Christopher Shaw and a former serial killer who could “see the future.”
This book was definitely creepy. All the different character’s stories were a little confusing at first, but you just have to go with it knowing that North will pull it all together and it will be genius. It was interesting to find out how it all connected. I listened to this one on audio and the accents were heavy so it needed to be slowed down to fully understand it. I enjoy finding out which narrators are reliable and which aren’t.
Thank you to MacMillan Audio, Celadon Books, and NetGalley for the ARC.