The Lost One

by Peter Fugazzotto

An investigation to the edge of madness

It’s supposed to be a simple job for “Insane” Crane and his partner extract the young woman from the Northern California cult. But nothing is ever easy for these two down-on-their-luck detectives.

Crane, a former FBI profiler scarred by the disappearance of his son, straddles the line between reality and madness. The more they investigate the cult, the worse things a quantum physicist promising to break time, a trail of missing people, and visions of a world hiding beneath the cracks of ours.

Will Crane rescue the missing girl? Will he discover a clue to his missing son? Will he and Hammond make it out alive from the cult compound?

The Lost One hits all the right notes for fans of True Detective and Laird Barron - gritty, weird, and thrilling.

Buy The Lost One today and immerse yourself in a supernatural thriller.

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 21, 2024

About the author

Peter Fugazzotto is a writer of horror, fantasy and science fiction. His short stories have been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Grimdark Magazine and Siren's Call. He is an espresso lover and a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

More information about Peter and his writing, including free stories, can be found at www.peterfugazzotto.com

Reviews

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peter Fugazzotto once again gives us a fantasy horror story as only he knows how. This is a novel about the two freelance detectives Crane and Hammond, who are themselves battling their own personal demons. Crane was known as being insane since his beloved son Massimo had disappeared and his marriage had fallen apart, whilst Hammond was a drunk but in this novel they are trying to pretend to join a cult in order to save a young woman called Ava. They had been employed by relatives of Ava, after their own daughter Camilla had gone missing and was presumed dead. However once Crane and Hammond arrive at the gates of the grounds were the cult met, things just started to get even scarier and more weird. McHugh the prophet was a physicist who persuaded people he could break time as we know it, and that he could bring back people who had died, so many flocked to join his cult. Poor Crane was tested to his limit being taunted with visions of his beloved son, and he was forced to chose between his partner's life or his son's. This is one hell of a thriller, riveting from beginning to it's cruel end, it portrays the cult as something that preys on the vulnerable as all cults do and it shows how human the detectives are in that we all have demons to battle throughout life, just as they do!