From Goodreads
On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass, when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995.
Elusive online journalist Scott King, whose ‘Six Stories’ podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, including Sorrel, his son and his ex-partner, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night. He takes a journey through the trees of the Wentshire Forest – a place synonymous with strange sightings, and tales of hidden folk who dwell there. He talks to a company that tried and failed to build a development in the forest, and a psychic who claims to know where Alfie is…
Intensely dark, deeply chilling and searingly thought provoking, Changeling is an up-to-the-minute, startling thriller, taking you to places you will never, ever forget.
Praise for the book
‘Bold, clever and genuinely chilling with a terrific twist that provides an explosive final punch’ Deidre O’Brien, Sunday Mirror
‘A genuine genre-bending debut’ Carla McKay, Daily Mail
‘Impeccably crafted and gripping from start to finish’ Doug Johnstone, The Big Issue
My thoughts
This is the third in the Six Stories series by Matt Wesolowski. Having read the previous two books in this series, I was looking forward to reading this one as I had enjoyed them both. It didn't let me down either, this was every bit as good as the previous two books.
I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10. Like the previous two books in the series this was well written and Matt Wesolowski has an unusual style of writing that draws you in.
Told as a series of podcasts Scott King has a unique way of interviewing the people involved in the cases he is interested in investigating. In this series he is trying to find out what happened to a young child who went missing from a car. As he sets out to find out what had happened, he is drawn in to the case by the six people he is interviewing.
The disappearance occurred on the edge of a forest, known as Wentshire Forest. The forest is notorious for the tales surrounding it, of strange goings on and tales of unusual people living there. It's the makings of a horror tale and is enough to put the fear into people. Let's face it most of us like to live on adrenalin at times and the locals to the area are no different.
Scott King is on a journey with the six interviewees and it's one that he will never forget.
Grab the books in this series and read them in order, as you need to get the back story of Scott King and his unique way of getting to the crux of the cases. Matt Wesolowski has a unique and unusual writing style, his books are edgy and err towards the spookier side of life, crime stories with that hint of horror just teetering on the edge of events. I can thoroughly recommend them and I have the next one Beast sat waiting patiently for me to get to.
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