Skeleton Man

July, 1958. A Different Time and Place. Kevin Dresner, a twelve-year-old with psychic abilities he doesn't understand, is spending two weeks at his grandparents' farm in rural Wisconsin. Across the highway looms Strauss Woods, an endless maze that houses deadly secrets, murder victims, and an avenging phantom known as the Skeleton Man. In an effort to save his grandfather's life and perhaps his own, Kevin and his new found friend, Natalie, embark on a supernatural journey of twists, turns, and terror, to unlock a horrifying thirty-year-old mystery. The author, Michael Raff, utilizes a maximum amount of suspense, tension, mystery, and romance in telling this unusual blend of supernatural, horror, coming of age and fish out of water story. Told mostly from a naive, twelve-year-old boy's point of view, it is also told from the point of view of five adult murderers, who are being hunted down one at a time by the title character. The story is further enhanced by Kevin's friend, Natalie Miller, a precious, chatty, intellectual, who through all the thrills and chills in the story, manages to steal our hearts.