TY - BOOK AU - North,Alex TI - The Shadow Friend SN - 9781405936255 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London : PB - Penguin Books, KW - Homecoming KW - Fiction KW - Missing persons KW - Murderers KW - Mothers and sons KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N1 - "One of you died. One disappeared. Now it's happening again..."--Cover N2 - If it had happened to you, you would have run away too. Twenty-five years ago, Paul's friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed their classmate -- and then vanished without a trace. Paul's never forgiven himself for his part in what happened. He's never gone back home. Until his elderly mother has a fall. It's finally time to stop running. It's not long before things start to go wrong. His mother claims there's someone in the house. Paul realises someone is following him. And, in a town many miles away, a copycat killer has struck. Which makes him wonder -- what really happened to Charlie the day of the murder? And can anyone stop it happening again? ER -