Tom searched the garage, hoping to find what the man wanted so badly.

He also found out that the man who had tried to break into the garage had put in an offer to buy the house, but his offer was refused even though it was more than the list price. He discovered that the man who had lived in the house before Tom bought it had been murdered. After two disturbing events - Tom encountered a man trying to break into the garage, and then a person tried to abduct Jake - Tom decided to investigate the history of his house. Jake was adamant that they live in that house even though Tom thought the house looked spooky and lopsided. Tom had allowed Jake to pick out the house into which they would live in Featherbank. This father and son had no idea at the time that they were not leaving their past, but instead moving closer to it. They came to the area hoping for a clean start after Tom’s wife, Jake’s mother, died. At about this same time, Tom Kennedy and his son, Jake, move to Featherbank. Twenty years later, Detective Inspector Pete Willis still looked for the body of Tony Smith, the last boy kidnapped by Carter. Frank Carter, given the moniker The Whisper Man, abducted and killed multiple children from the Featherbank area. In The Whisper Man by Alex North, while it is natural for a child to want to earn his father’s pride, North takes this idea to the extreme when a man becomes a child abductor and killer in hopes of making his father proud. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: North, Alex.