Whisper Down the Lane

<b>“A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles. You’ll keep turning the pages even as your hands shake.”—Riley Sager, <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of <i>Home Before Dark</i><br></b><br><b>Now in paperback, a pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the ’80s.</b><br><br>Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school’s playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn’t celebrated his birthday since he was known as Sean . . .<br><br>In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother unwittingly led him to tell a lie about his teacher. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each was more outlandish than the last—and fueled a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him.<br><br>Now, thirty years later, someone is here to tell Richard that they know what Sean did. But who would even know that these two are one and the same? <i>Whisper Down the Lane </i>is a tense and compulsively readable exploration of a world primed by paranoia to believe the unbelievable.