

They are pushed to the brink of their psychological stability and as they investigate, they realize that they may never return from the haunting-as they try to find the missing boys and save their town. The team soon discovers, though, that the isolated man is at the center of the terror, and their investigation brings them up against an evil far more ancient and powerful than any of them could have imagined. Rountree has also recently become more and more agoraphobic, never straying far from his isolated home in the nearby woods. The team soon comes to believe that Rountree is the key to the case, but finding out what he is hiding takes immense courage as they discover that he has a history of mental illness, and is also a veteran of the Vietnam War.

The deeper they delve into the case, the more it seems entwined with a psychologically disturbed man named Wesley Rountree. With each disappearance, the community had become increasingly more suspicious of hidden forces at play-deities, monsters, and other unexplainable phenomena. The detectives soon discover that the boys were all schoolmates who had gone missing over the course of the past two months.

As they investigate the case further, they unearth a long history of terror and pain in the community, and evidence that points to a horrifying ritual that could involve all four of the missing boys. The Boy by Tami Hoag is a psychological thriller that follows the story of Detective Nick Fourcade and his team as they investigate a series of mysterious deaths that involve four missing boys in a small Louisiana town.įourcade and the team are called in after a headless corpse is discovered in a local swamp, and the case takes a disturbing turn when the body is identified as one of four missing boys.
