My Review of The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North

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Title: The Man Made of Smoke

Author: Alex North 

Expected Publication: May 14,2025

Publisher: Celadon Books 

Genre: Thriller/Mystery/ Mystery Thriller/ Horror/ Fiction/ Suspense/Psychological Thriller/ Murder Mystery/ Crime 

Pages: 320 pages 

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review: 

"Nobody sees," the man says. "And nobody cares."
Dan's chance encounter with a strange man and a little boy at a restroom at a rest stop has haunted him his whole life. Later, they discovered the little boy dead in a camper with an adult, but the situation was more complex than it seemed. It turned out to be a chance encounter with a serial killer who kidnapped and murdered children. Rereading the true crime novel repeatedly until his copy was worn out, Dan showed his interest in the case. However, after going to college, he gradually left it all behind and slowly healed, putting the encounter in his past.
Grown Dan is now a psychiatrist at a prison and he knows that there are no monsters, they are just men. But the discovery of his father's car and the suspicion of his father's death brought him back to the island. The note in his car stated, "Notify my son." 
Dan returns to the island to get all his father's affairs together however, chance encounters and following his father's notes and some eerie encounters he finds out that after his father's police retirement, he still followed different unsolved cases and he found a body on his routine walk and everything started spiraling from there. Dan must follow his father's notes and team up with a childhood friend to figure out what is going on as people are dying and what is the event that is connecting all the deaths. 
Oh, man! This one had me hooked from the first chapter, and I dove into it. It was full of mystery, murder, horror, serial killers, and everything in between, and I loved it! I was hooked and I think this is his best book yet! Sooo freaking good! I recommend it! Thank you to Celadon Books for being part of their readers' program! 

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