The Murderer's Apprentice

Baltimore, 1966. A twelve-year-old girl is about to discover that some monsters are real. So far, 1966 hasn't been so great for 12-year-old Dara Burke. Her mom yells at her all the time, and her little brother Alvey is a pain in the butt. But none of that matters because it's finally summer! Now she and her best friend Fran can ride their bikes, go to baseball games, or just hang out. But then one day the dead boy whispers in Dara's ear. Warning her about the bad man who was coming. On the other side of town, Baltimore City Patrolman Stan Gorsky also looks forward to summer crab feasts and cold bottles of Natty Boh. Until the first little boy dies. Though the boy's death is ruled an accident, Stan isn't so sure. When he learns of similar deaths of other boys, he soon finds himself on the trail of a shadowy killer. A bad man who hunts the children of Baltimore and is always one step ahead. In this countdown to murder, not everyone will survive!