Whisper Down the Lane

<b>A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles.--Riley Sager <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of <i>Home Before Dark</i><br></b><br><b>A pulse-pounding true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the '80s.</b> <p/>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 . . . <p/>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. <p/> 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.