First published 1994
Trevor McGee was five years old when his cartoonist father Robert slaughtered his mother and baby brother before taking his own life. Trevor watched it happen. He survived as the sole witness to carnage that no one could explain. Two decades pass. Trevor comes back to Missing Mile, drawn by the same dark force that once consumed his father. He brings Zach Bosch with him, a computer hacker running from the law. Together they enter Birdland, the McGee family home where blood was spilled twenty years before. Trevor knows he risks everything by returning. The house still holds its demons. The malignant influence that drove his father to violence waits inside. But Trevor must confront what destroyed his family, even if it destroys him too.
Genres: mystery, horror, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: haunted-house, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Missing Mile, Birdland
Period: 20 years ago, present day
373 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Penguin Books
Content warnings: child-death, violence