THE PIPER'S CHILDREN
FBI agents race to solve a surreal mystery

This was a really fantastic read right from the very first line. Children start appearing in the woods, wearing clothes people wore in the Middle Ages, and speaking in German. They aren’t connected to any missing persons, and they have little recollection from where they came. The only thing they ar......more

I was thoroughly intrigued by the concept of this book, I thought it was going to be far better than the average "crime thriller" that we've all become familiar with. Unfortunately, it was just that, a run of the mill read. I was so disappointed because the "folklore" aspect could have made this som......more

Park rangers are puzzled when a child - speaking what sounds like German and dressed in clothes from the Middle Ages - is found wandering alone in the middle of a forest near Seattle. With no one having reported him missing, FBI Special Agent Will McCord assembles a dedicated unit to investigate the......more

I’m not sure what it was about this book. I wasn’t able to get into the plot. Perhaps it was more so that the book was on the science side of catching the killer rather than the actual real time of the police, detectives and FBI’s investigative part of it. Well what ever it was lost me completely in......more

Mesmerising. I was completely swept along by this FBI/ folklore thriller from the outset. The Piper is a legendary threatening figure towards children and seems to somehow transcend time. When a group of children appear in medieval clothing speaking ancient Germanic dialect, they have the FBI baffle......more