Night Terror

Chandler McGrew

House of Stratus, Jul 1, 2015 - Fiction - 400 pages

In an instant they were gone. Four years apart, two boys vanish without a trace from an idyllic Maine community. For Sheriff Virgil Milche, the disappearances are a black mark on a fine career. For the mother of one victim, the mystery is a dark journey through grief, hope, and madness. Audrey Bock is certain her son is still alive. In the silence, she can hear him crying out to her. Now she suspects that somewhere in her own past lies the key to her son’s disappearance. To find him, Audrey must confront the tortuous maze of her memory. To unravel the case, Virgil must uncover the bizarre darkness lurking within his well-lit world. But as both move closer to the truth, they will face the most forbidding barrier of all: someone out there knows exactly what happened to two little boys–and who must die next.

About the author

Chandler McGrew is the author of four critically acclaimed suspense novels, ‘Cold Heart’, ‘Night Terror’, ‘In Shadows’ and ‘The Darkening’. Self-reportedly, he writes ten to twelve hours a day fuelled by liberal doses of coffee, Pepsi, and the ‘occasional dollop of single-malt scotch to take the edge off’. Born in Texas, he lived for almost a decade in Alaska where his first novel, ‘Cold Heart’, is set. He now lives in quiet seclusion in the mountains of Maine, a proud husband and father with what he describes as ‘four remarkable women’ in his life--Rene, Keni, Mandi, and Charli. McGrew didn’t start writing professionally until he was in his forties, and is an avid follower of other art forms, including painting which preceded his writing, and photography. He also holds the rank of Shodan in Kyokushin Karate, and is trained in Aikido! His writing career did not bring immediate success. He penned fourteen novels over eight years, which went unpublished, and reckoned to have received over three hundred rejection letters during that period from agents and editors. Then, having signed with Irene Kraas, the last of five agents he had worked through, he finally broke through and became the highly successful novelist he is known as today. McGrew generously credits Kraas with guiding him through the tricky learning curve of working with professional editors at large publishing houses, and for helping build his career, along with a later agent, Peter Rubie, whom he regards as arguably the best all-rounder in the business. McGrew’s novels are peopled with characters who might be regarded as next door neighbors, but that doesn’t prevent the developments of gripping plots that ‘The Denver Post’, in referring to one of them, described as playing ‘on the primal fears that cause most adults to lose sleep’. He has an uncanny knack of both touching readers and frightening them at the same time, whilst providing a thrilling and addictive read.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Night Terror
• Author: Chandler McGrew
• Publisher: House of Stratus, 2015
• ISBN: 194128647X, 9781941286470
• Length: 400 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Occult & Supernatural; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense