☮Karen's Reviews > A Winter Haunting

Dale Stewart, fresh from a suicide attempt and heavily medicated, returns to his home town near Peoria to work on a book while living in an old farmhouse where as a child one of his friends died in a farming accident. The dead boy is in fact narrator of some chapters. The house comes alive at night and spooky things go bump, buMP, BUMP; and the audio reader Bronson Pinchot does a wonderful job of making us a little creeped out and pleasantly entertained all at once. Big black dogs (aka hellhounds) and local skinheads (aka criminal tormentors) are never far away. With the mix of Prozac and who knows what else in his system, Dale is either being haunted by beings unknown or is wildly delusional.

I enjoyed this, especially the Illinois setting near my husband's home town, where black topped rural roads are called "the hard road" and cell phone service is spotty at best. A solid read that makes me want to read the prequel.