Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chimzar
When the line between fiction and truth become blurred....whose to say if there ever was a line to begin with? Richard Chizmar's fantastic book Chasing the Boogeyman kicks a big fat hole straight through that theoretical line on its way to chasing the reader around the house as we check to make sure all of our windows and doors are locked tight. This is the first book in a really long time that's actually got me looking behind my shoulder in my everyday life. This is a fictionalized story about a hunt for a serial killer in the author's Suburban Maryland hometown. The weaving of his real life childhood and early adulthood into the fictionalized parts of the story are so seamless and mesh so well that I'd find myself on several occasions trying to figure out which parts and characters are real or not. The only other occasion I've had the same feeling of reality confusion in a book is with Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead (republished as The 13th Warrior aft...