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    Neighborhood Watch

    By Joseph Turkot

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    Fall, 1995.

    Holson is a sleepy, middle-class suburb, whose most interesting news amounts to farmer’s markets and Friday night football games.

    When young Brandon Grey disappears, no one thinks he’ll be missing for long. When another boy vanishes, parents begin to worry about their children. When bodies turn up in the local river, cut to pieces, stuffed inside industrial-strength black trash bags, the town begins to shut down.

    The day that Brandon Grey is last seen walking home from school by teachers, two young boys are starting a street hockey game. A man stops at the end of their block, takes a picture of them, and drives off. All they catch is the model and color of the car he’s driving.

    Jake and Colin, fueled by their ambition to form a detective club, decide to go searching for the car that haunts them. They soon take it upon themselves to find Brandon Grey. As tensions in town rise, and so does the body count, they find themselves deep in a mystery they never bargained for, closer to the serial killer than they could have ever imagined.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Turkot
    Release dateOct 6, 2013
    ISBN9781497770522
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    • 4/5
      Starts off slow. The story is told from the perspective of an adult remembering his youth so their are many details that I'm not sure would be something actually remembered or just thrown in a filler to make this into a longer story. Either way, it drags the pace down to a crawl. There were times I would look at the bottom of my Kindle and think, "Really, only 38% (39, 40) through!" However, some of the memories reminded me of my childhood (Imaging things chasing me on my way home and if I could just make it to the end of the street they would disappear and forming groups of super heroes that would save the neighborhood)I liked the ending although It seemed to be a bit rushed, as if the author knew he had rambled on and needed to finish quickly to avoid losing the reader altogether.In short, (I know, too late to be short) Neighborhood Watch is worth reading.
    • 4/5
      Playing detective as a kid could get you killedNeighborhood watch is almost like a coming of age story meets serial murderer. Three young boys live in a very quiet town where nothing too exciting goes on. Each one has a bit of challenge in his home life, none really overwhelming. When local boys start to disappear, the town closes the school, cancels Halloween and puts out a curfew for kids. The three boys create a secret detective society, sneak out after curfew and spy on the creepy neighbor down the road. The story has a great flow through most of the book, easy to read; until you get to the last part. I almost felt like the author ran out of space, so he had to hurry up and compress the ending into one chapter and call it good. I would have given it a better rating if the author maintained the quality all the way through. I did enjoy it and even with its fault, and would recommend this book to others.
    • 4/5
      Neighborhood Watch harkens back to the days before cellphones where street lights were the measure for when you had to be home as curfew. I thought Mr. Turkot really captured this very well. I thought the characters were well written and developed. I remember these days very well. I was sucked into the mystery of it all and devoured the pages swiftly to find out what happened next. I was full of curiousity and adventure to explore this book. I'll definitely be checking out more of Mr. Turkot's work in the future.