Chasing the Boogeyman

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at the time, he was a 22-year-old recently-graduated journalism major living back home with his parents waiting for his fiancée to finish her degree before embarking upon their espousèd life together. This is a fictional book written like a documentary movie- a slow paced boring documentary that you regret watching. So many thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for sharing this fantastic digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts. Even though I knew I was reading fiction, I couldn't shake the feeling that the events were not real, which made this an intriguing reading experience.

I originally wanted to read this book because of the fact that Chizmar has co-written a book with the legendary Stephen King and even King himself said this was “genuinely chilling” and that’s all I needed to know. Specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page personally signed by Richard Chizmar and Ben Baldwin. I was impressed by Chizmar's writing, and he was able to paint a vivid image in my mind of his town in my mind. Chizmar’s novel isn’t just a clever riff on genre; it’s a meditation on the dangers and darkness of home, on what happens when the place where we grew up finally grows up itself—or at least when it discovers the violence it’s capable of…. Chasing The Boogeyman will leave you questioning what and who is real, and will have you checking your window is locked more than once during the long night.Law enforcement, as well as members of the FBI, are certain that the killer is a living, breathing madman—and he’s playing games with them. Whilst we don’t get anything so overtly dramatic as, for example, the ending of Stephen King’s underrated masterpiece Joyland, like Dante, we do get a confrontation with pure evil, a moment where we look the Devil in the eye at the nadir—the inverse apex—of existence. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

His hometown of Edgewood, MD was in a state of panic after four young girls were murdered, the work of a serial murderer nicknamed The Boogeyman. Richard and his friend, Carly Albright, a journalist at the local newspaper, try tracking down their own leads to figure out the identity of the Boogeyman which puts them in the Boogeyman's line of sight.Richard spends much time reminiscing about his small-town upbringing, including the minutiae of life in Edgewood. It is masterfully written, and the plotting is so watertight that not a single droplet of blood spills. His fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and multiple editions of The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. The sky overhead was layered with rich shades of orange and yellow and purple and red and a host of swirling colors too beautiful to be named. It neither grab nor held my attention, making it a long and difficult journey to get through this book.

I highly truly extremely recommend you to read this freaking fantastic gem if you are addicted to true crime nonfictions, podcasts, perfectly written thriller books! The book takes after true crime narratives and provides photographs of various people and places in Edgewood, and this furthers the sense of absolute reality. stars— If you are looking for a different type of book experience than a typical thriller novel, then “Chasing the Boogeyman” is for you.A solid true crime facsimile, mixing background detail with action, suspense, and a compelling pace. However, at the very beginning of the book, Chizmar divulges that Chasing the Boogeyman is indeed a work of fiction.