It is a very dark book and starts with the Walking Man finding a wandering dog and a smudged note on its collar, with the only legible words being ''Help Us''.
Sure it's a despairing plea for help, he calls on Cafferty to investigate. Cafferty is reluctant to get involved, until promised new information by the Walking Man regarding the abduction in childhood of Caffery's brother.
Wolf looks back on a pair of young lovers, brutally murdered in a remote woodland. A suspect was locked up for the crimes following a confession.
Now, 14 years later, the question for the reader is, has he been released and is the nightmare about to begin again for a family in a remote house? A book not easy to put down or for reading late at night.
- Ted Fox is a Dunedin online marketing consultant.
