Whistle
- Judith D Collins
- May 26
- 2 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
A Chilling Horror Journey of a Mother and Son into a New Town, Haunted Trains, and Unsettling Nightmares—Perfect for Summer Reading
By: Linwood Barclay
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
HarperAudio
ISBN: 9780063436039
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication Date: 05/20/2025
Format: Other
My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC)
“Terrific.”— Stephen King on Whistle
New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay enters new territory with a supernatural chiller in which a woman and her young son move to a small town looking for a fresh start, only to be haunted by disturbing events and strange visions when they find a mysterious train set in a storage shed.
Evil has a one track mind....
Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children’s books she’s built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal.
But Annie’s year is about to get worse.
Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed on their property. Annie is glad to see Charlie happy, but there’s something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night—she could swear she hears a train, but there isn’t an active track for miles—and bizarre things begin happening in the neighborhood. Worse, Annie can’t seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children’s book.
Grief can do strange things to the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she’s walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying…
Praise
“Terrific.”
— Stephen King on Whistle
“Scares and pathos in equal doses. A top-shelf chiller.”
— starred review in Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Linwood Barclay is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous previous novels and two thrillers for children. His books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw It Coming and his books The Accident and No Time for Goodbye have been made into TV series in France. No Time for Goodbye was a global bestseller. A native of Connecticut, he now lives in Toronto with his wife, Neetha. WEBSITE
