The Invention of Sound

The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk   240 pages

A 7 year old girl is abducted by a 12 year old girl caught on camera and the child is never seen again.   Her father has been searching for her for 17 years.   He has gone so far as to troll kiddie porn websites to see if he sees his daughter on any of them.   He attends a group of fathers who's children have been murdered but he doesn't accept her death as inevitable since she has not been found, yet.  He openly accuses child molestors he sees out in public to protect any would be victims.   Sadly people mistake him for a pervert because of his obsession and constant perusal of verbotten websites and groups.   On a movie set a woman is obsessed with the realistic screams used in movie soundtracks to elicit genuine emotions and make the films memorable.   She has her own collection of these realistic screams made by both men and women, adults and children.  And why does she only want sex with someone who will torture her?   Lots of people come up missing around her for some reason, too.   These two people - the father looking for his daughter and the woman searching for pain beyond belief are about to meet and the sparks that fly lead to an outcome that you will need to read to feel the intensity.  Whew!  So many difficult subjects are covered in this hard to read without being haunted by it, story.   Not a book for the young, a way serious topic delivered as brutally as the acts mentioned themselves.   For fans of true crime media I think this tale will impress.

- Shirley J.