The Boy in the Park: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist

The Boy in the Park: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist
A J Grayson

The Psychological Thriller that everyone is going to be talking about - once you’ve read it, it will haunt you for weeks!Dylan goes to the same park every day on his lunch break, he enjoys the quiet solitude of the boating lake, enjoys passing the time, watching the people come and go.He has also begun to notice another visitor to the lake, a young boy, playing with a stick at the water’s edge, a boy who is always alone. Slowly, Dylan can see that something is terribly wrong with the child; he seems troubled and unhappy and when bruises start to appear on the boy’s arms, he knows that he must act.As Dylan’s obsession with the boy takes hold, he embarks on dark, intense and terrifying journey, where nothing is at it seems and the truth is much worse than anything he could possibly have imagined…

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Dedication (#u0ccd1ba7-3544-52eb-b75c-b859fee0253e)

For Rachael

Epigraph (#u0ccd1ba7-3544-52eb-b75c-b859fee0253e)

I am not certain I may ever know, ever understand, that which makes death what it is and sorrow so sadly, desperately haunting. I am not sure what it is that lingers, once everything else is gone. But I know the boy, alive through all his torments, and perhaps that is enough. Perhaps we are not meant to know anything more cosmic than one child, one face, one set of hands. In them, I have found enough grief to encompass the whole of creation.

—Dr Pauline Lavrentis

Interview notes

Contents

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Title Page (#u882916ca-55cd-5581-945d-cd3662fe1ca1)

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

The Boy in the Park, Stanza 1

Part One

San Francisco

Chapter 1. Tuesday

Chapter 2. Wednesday Morning

Chapter 3. The Boy in the Park, Stanza 2

Chapter 4. Wednesday Afternoon

Chapter 5. Taped Recording Cassette #014A – Interviewer: P. Lavrentis

Chapter 6. Thursday Lunchtime

Chapter 7. Friday

Chapter 8. Taped Recording Cassette #014B – Interviewer: P. Lavrentis

Chapter 9. Friday

Chapter 10. Saturday – Office of Lieutenant Brian Delvay

Chapter 11. Sunday

Chapter 12. Taped Recording Cassette #021C – Interviewer: P. Lavrentis

Chapter 13. Monday

Chapter 14. Monday Afternoon

Chapter 15. Taped Recording Cassette #021D – Interviewer: P. Lavrentis

Chapter 16. Monday Afternoon