The Bellwether Revivals

Benjamin Wood’s “A Station to Somewhere Better”—a searing detective thriller about the bond between fathers and children.

For twenty years, Daniel has been trying to overcome the consequences of a childhood psychological trauma. He can’t forget what happened when he was twelve. The only way is to try to understand what happened then, sort out the past, and finally accept it. But the events of August 1995 are too astonishing, too terrible, and too inexplicable…

One morning, Daniel’s father, Francis, arrives to pick him up and spend a couple of days together—show him the film studio where he works. But the trip already goes wrong from the first hours, and by evening, a journey meant to bring father and son closer turns into a nightmare, as if invented by Stephen King—only it unfolds in reality.

A dynamic, moving, and frightening novel about what troubles many people today—about how childhood traumas shape our lives…