For fans of Rene Denfeld and Shari Lapena comes Kali White VanBaale's third novel, a rich, atmospheric family drama set in the 1980's following the disappearances of two paperboys from a small Midwestern town.​​

Told through interwoven perspectives--and based on the real-life Des Moines Register paperboy kidnappings in the early 1980's--The Monsters We Make deftly explores the effects of one crime exposing another and the secrets people keep hidden from friends, families, and sometimes, even themselves.​

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“An air of menace laced with melancholy hangs over every page, a mourning for a more innocent time that perhaps never was real. The monsters were always there; we just couldn’t see them.”

—Booklist

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"Fans of character-driven crime fiction will be satisfied."

—Publisher's Weekly