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Violence
Very heavy
Escalating serial-killer violence includes animal killings, stalking, and murders described with increasing, deliberately disturbing detail as the book progresses
Language
Some
Moderate profanity consistent with adult crime fiction; not flagged as unusually extreme by reviewers
Sexual Content
Very heavy
Contains rape, sexual assault, and necrophilia as explicit plot elements tied to the killer's crimes
Substance Use
Barely any
No major substance-use storyline surfaced in review coverage
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Deeply unsettling true-crime psychology: public hysteria, false accusations, child abuse in the killer's backstory, and the narrator's own uneasy obsession with the case
What this book is about
Years after the events of Chasing the Boogeyman, Richard Chizmar's small Maryland hometown is gripped by a new wave of killings that echo the original Boogeyman murders. As the author-narrator is drawn back into the investigation, social media speculation and neighbor-versus-neighbor suspicion escalate alongside the body count, and Chizmar interrogates his own fascination with true crime and the public's appetite for it.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
necrophilia
sexual assault
serial killer violence
child abuse (backstory)
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