The Journeyman

Chelsea Ritter--Critter to her father--is a high school student with an odd problem. Her next door neighbor murders women in his basement and she knows about it. Not only that, but he knows she knows. She has video proof, she has a plan...but it isn't what you think.

She talks to her pet tarantula, Persephone...calls her father by his first name and on her best days in school, she is harassed by a punk named Tim.
The third novel and fifth story that takes place in the haunted and horrible Walker's Woods--a midwestern town that could only have been dreamt up by the author of Demons and Other Inconveniences, How to Eat a Human Being and The Toothless Dead.

Go on Chelsea's journey. It's darker than you think.