The Hunt for the Seventh by
Christine Morton-Shaw is a creepy thriller of a book about a teenage boy named Jim who finds himself trying to unravel the mystery of the haunted mansion he's recently moved to with his father and sister. Early in the book, Jim meets an autistic boy named Einstein who talks in riddles. He also finds a black board in an old classroom with the names of children scrawled on it, the word "deceased" next to each name. A message at the very bottom states simply, "Follow the statues." Jim does that and quickly finds himself hunting a set of clues in a mad race against time to prevent more innocent deaths.
Morton-Shaw heightens the eerie creepiness of her book with ghostly whispers, phantom reenactments of the children's freakish deaths, and the malevolent Lord Minerva, wheel-chair bound and obsessed with watching grainy security footage from the cameras spread throughout his sinister mansion.
If you like scary books, you need to read this book right now!
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