In the sweltering summer of 1983 Van Nuys, California, 12-year-old Jorge Mendoza becomes obsessed with his quiet new neighbor, Mr. Lindquist, at 4417 Hartland Street. Convinced the pale, reclusive accountant matches the police sketch of the Freeway Phantom—a serial killer terrorizing the San Fernando Valley—Jorge launches a secret investigation. But as he uncovers eerie clues, he steps into a twilight realm where suspicion blurs into something far stranger than murder.

Key Topics Covered:

• 1980s San Fernando Valley suburbia and childhood obsessions
• The real-life terror of the Freeway Phantom serial killer case
• A boy's clandestine surveillance turning into supernatural dread
• Neighbors hiding dark secrets in plain sight
• The thin line between paranoia and prophecy

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