Status Updates From The Boy Who Glowed In The Dark

Almost done review coming soon!

Jumping ten years ahead. Harlow Peck is now an ethereal looking ten year old and history is repeating itself with him being teased at the watering hole that all the kids go to, and he is helped by Carrie Stotlz, Jimmy Stotlz's daughter and they're falling in love.

The town of Hayforth is flooded intercut with Jack Lynches (angel/demon/alien) child being born by Tabitha Peck. Jimmy Stoltz shoots Jack Lynche & Handsome Green aids lynch against his will and Lynche orders him to kill himself after Lynche is recovered, but Green survives, and Lynche heads off to Spain.

Stories of small towns with secrets goes all the way back to at least Washington Irving and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (maybe farther) with every character seeming to have a lurking secret and every person seems suspicious. But all the characters in this book have strengths and weaknesses that aren't tropes, or red herrings, or obvious.

Jimmy Stoltz a deputy sherriff is on the case trying to track down what Jack Lynche has to do with the death of his friend and fellow police officer and the rape of "The Widow Peck." Is Jack Lynche an angel? A demon? Or something else. Very tautly written and have to say a page turner you don't want to put down.

Introduction to the small town of Hayfork, IA and already have a suicide, a mysterious stranger that may be an angel, demon or alien? But shockwaves are moving quickly through the town.