Killing Time

by Patricia Windsor

Life in New York City is dangerous.
Life in a small country town is safer.
True or false?

After living all his sixteen years in New York City, Sam Tarver would probably have agreed with the above statements. But New York was home and he wouldn't have it any different.

So when his divorced father drags Sam "back to nature" to live in a run-down old house in Galeville, Same thinks things couldn't be worse. But he's wrong.

First, things start disappearing; then people. Everyone at school seems friendly -- or are they? Sam is drugged and hoodwinked, and his house is vandalized. Dull Galeville is getting dangerous.

Sam's father is too busy digging up evidence that Druids once lived on their land to have time to listen to Sam's theories. Even Sam's new friend Tookey can't explain the mysterious goings-on in her town. As things become more and more sinister, Sam resolves with Tookey's help to figure out once and for all what evil lurks in Galeville.

Genres: Young Adult

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Patricia Windsor is the author of many books for young readers. Her book The Sandman's Eyes won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. Patricia Windsor lives and writes in Maryland.