Changeling
Six Stories
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Starred review from July 15, 2019
In Wesolowski’s exceptional third outing for British podcast host Scott King (after 2018’s Hydra), King, who has become something of an internet sensation (and target), may be biting off more than he can chew when a listener’s letter hinting at having inside information spurs him to tackle the Everest of U.K. cold cases: the Christmas Eve, 1988, disappearance of seven-year-old Alfie Marsden on a desolate road near the Welsh border during the few minutes that Alfie’s father, Sorrel, was under the hood of their car troubleshooting some ominous knocks. What does King reasonably hope to discover three decades on, if he can even manage to connect with now-elusive key players, including Sorrel and Alfie’s publicly excoriated mother, from whose alcohol-fueled rage Sorrel claims to have been trying to rescue the boy that fateful night? The accounts of the six witnesses King manages to line up for his podcast are by turns haunting, horrifying, and heartrending. Fans of Arthur Machen, whose unsettling tale “The White People” provides an epigraph, will want to check this one out. Agent: Sandra Sawicka, Marjacq (U.K.).
Starred review from August 1, 2019
The third entry in Wesolowski's Six Stories series (after Hydra, 2018) is as stunning as it is terrifying. Already published in the UK, Changeling follows the same format as the other books in the series. The story is told as a transcript of the fictional Six Stories podcast, hosted by Scott King. King himself is glimpsed only in audio logs, which are interspersed with the podcast episodes. In this episode, King investigates the disappearance of seven-year-old Alfie Marsden, who vanished from his father's car in the eighties. Sorrel Marsden, Alfie's father, was idling at the edge of Wentshire Wood, long rumored to be haunted, when he heard a mysterious tapping noise from his car's engine. Sorrel left the car, but when he returned, Alfie was gone. As King interviews people who were close to the case, the resolution unfolds, like an origami swan being dismantled. The reader must decide what is real and what is not. Readers of Kathleen Barber's Are You Sleeping (2017) and fans of Ruth Ware will enjoy this slim but compelling novel.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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