🎧 Book Review: The Angel Maker by Alex North

Genre ~ horror, mystery

Featuring ~ 4 part story, dual timeline ~ present & 1956, serial killer

POV ~ multiple 3rd person

Release date ~ February 28, 2023

Page count ~ 322

Audio length ~ 8 hours 1 minute

My rating ~ 3.75⭐

My review:

Kate is one of our main characters who’s brother, Chris, has gone missing. But that’s news to her since she already thought he was missing since she hasn’t seen him in 2 years due to a falling out. Then we have the detectives trying to solve the murder of a professor, Alan Hobbes. And finally, we’re swept back to 1956 during the time of the serial killer, The Angel Maker.

I wasn’t a super big fan of North’s first two books, but I am happy to say I enjoyed this one a smidge more than those. You can’t multitask while listening to this one though because there are quite a few characters and timelines to keep track of, so you need to pay attention.

Narrated by Rosalie Craig for 8 hours and 1 minute. She did a fine job and the sweet spot was 2.5x on this one.

Overall, a fine thriller with a touch of horror that did not keep me up at night (maybe because I was multitasking, so I missed the super scariness?).

*Thanks to the author, Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows comes a dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings, and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future.

Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life. At the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a little brother she protected fiercely. Until the day a violent stranger changed the fate of her family forever.

Years later, still unable to live down the guilt surrounding what happened to her brother, Chris, and now with a child of her own to protect, Katie struggles to separate the real threats from the imagined. Then she gets the phone call: Chris has gone missing and needs his big sister once more.

Meanwhile, Detective Laurence Page is facing a particularly gruesome crime. A distinguished professor of fate and free will has been brutally murdered just hours after firing his staff. All the leads point back to two old cases: the gruesome attack on teenager Christopher Shaw, and the despicable crimes of a notorious serial killer who, legend had it, could see the future.

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