Wicked Jenny by Matt Hilton (2025)
Grim, dark and horrific, hardly anyone escapes this book unscathed. And tragically more than few don't escape at all.
Four men, now grown into middle age, become haunted and tormented by a terrible, guilty secret dating back to their childhood in 1988. It's possible they wrongfully accused another boy as the killer of a young girl and permanent maiming of her stepsister. Their accusation led to the boy's arrest and suicide in jail. And the 'haunted' part of these woeful events might now have turned literal- is it a legendary tall tale wraith of their young nightmares that's making frightening appearances to them? Or is it actually that surviving stepsister who's come back to stalk them on some vengeful quest? To add to their increasing anxiety, one of their original group has been found brutally murdered.....by someone all too real.
Author Matt Hilton skillfully turns up the mounting dread as the two parallel threats, (both supernatural and corporeal) head for a surprising, blood soaked collision. But don't expect to find anyone (other than the original victims) to sympathize with......the steady pile up of horror and death stays undiluted to the very end., with a final moment that's both satisfying, disturbing, and grotesquely sad at the same time.
Here's one that you'd want to keep more than just the reading light on while it sucks you in.
4 stars (****)
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