Name: The Watcher in the Wall
ISBN: 9780698194083

Owen Laukkanen

A heart-pounding new Stevens and Windermere thriller from the award-winning author of The Stolen Ones and The Professionals. Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevens’s daughter, Andrea, is distraught over a classmate’s suicide, but what the two investigators find is even more disturbing—an online suicide club of unhappy teenagers, presided over by an anonymous presence who seems to be spurring them on. Soon, it becomes apparent that the classmate wasn’t the first victim—and won’t be the last, either, unless they can hunt down this psychopath once and for all.

The Watcher in the Wall

When a student's suicide is tied to a disturbing online suicide club of unhappy teens, Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere discover that an anonymous psychopath is manipulating the teens into self-destructive acts.

A Stevens and Windermere Novel

Christina Baltimore 

This was awesome. I love getting hooked in a book. 

This is not my go-to genre but I was looking for something with a creepy edge when I bought this book. This is my first Owen Laukkanen book and I hope everything else is available in hardcover because that’s the way I prefer my favorites. 

So this is the fifth book in this series and you do not have to read them in order to enjoy and understand what’s going on. Like most series, you may benefit from starting with the first book in the series if you want to see the characters introduced and follow the development. 

I really like both the characters Stevens and Windermere. As I started with this book, I don’t entirely know their back stories. Stevens appears to be a family man and balances out the zealous Windermere. She rushes in to situations in this book and thinks about the repercussions for herself. 

It’s a book about a lot of problems, bullying, internet predators, suicide, depression, law loopholes, child abuse and the lasting effects. The writing and presentation of the book are spot on. There is a solid conclusion. I hate to be left with questions at the end of a book. The most important thing, I started this book with the intention of testing it to see if it could hold my interest. It did, and I read in every spare minute and was excited to settle in this evening and finish it.

Yeldah Yousfi

I loved this book! It was such an amazing thriller :D

The Watcher in the Wall

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