Night Watcher
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- Expected Jul 8, 2025
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- $14.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
In what Jeneva Rose declares a “chilling and atmospheric” tale, Nola Strate, a late night radio host in Portland, Oregon, listens to stories of hauntings and cryptic sightings for a living. But one foggy evening, a caller describes an eerie scene that triggers memories of Nola’s childhood escape from a serial killer, and she fears he’s back to finish what he started.
Nola Strate is being watched, again.
After an encounter with a notorious serial killer in the Pacific Northwest as a child, Nola has grown up and tried her best to forget her traumatizing night with the Hiding Man. She installed security cameras outside her Oregon home, never spoke of her experience, and now hosts Night Watch, a popular radio call-in show her semi‑famous father used to run. When coincidences lead Nola to believe that she is being stalked, and a caller on Night Watch has a live incident with an intruder in the caller's home—the description of whom is chillingly familiar—Nola is convinced that the Hiding Man has resurfaced and is coming for her.
With a mysterious next‑door neighbor lurking in the shadows, more people getting hurt, the police not taking her concerns seriously, and evidence pointing towards her own father, Nola decides to become, like her listeners, a Night Watcher herself, and uncover the monster behind the Hiding Man's mask.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Going West podcaster Woolsoncroft debuts with a creepy mystery about a serial killer stalking the streets of Portland, Ore. Nola Strate's life takes a dark turn when, at age eight, she sees a masked figure murder her babysitter. Twenty years later, while hosting the late-night call-in radio show her father started, Nola receives a frantic call from a woman who believes there is a ghost in her house. When the call drops, and reports emerge that the woman was murdered, Nola fears that the killer from her youth—whom locals across the Pacific Northwest dubbed "the Hiding Man"—has returned. Moved to confront her buried memories of her babysitter's murder, Nola realizes that the lion's share of evidence points toward her father, who's planning to write a book about the Hiding Man slayings. Holding out hope that she's wrong, she considers other suspects, including a shifty new neighbor. Woolsoncroft conjures plenty of classic, don't-look-under-the-bed suspense, but the resolution feels somewhat underheated. Still, this is good for a quick thrill.
