This is a book about two characters called Joe and Jonah. Jonah goes missing after running after a fire engine and Joe tries to find him. The author, Alex Shearer, has created many exiting turning point so make us want to read on.

The first turning point of the story is near the beginning. Joe and Jonah are on the way to school and a fire engine races past. Jonah decides to run after it. Shearer writes that “He was never seen again.” At this point the reader will want to know what happens next and how this will affect the other main character, Joe. Joe was always Jonah’s best friend and everything they did, they did together.

The next turning point is where he tells the police the information he knows about Jonah. He kept the information for about a week, because Jonah made him promised that he won’t tell where he went, so he doesn’t get in trouble. At lunch he decided to tell the investigators what he knew. This is an important turning point because the reader feels new hope of a problem in the story being solved, which makes the reader exited about what happens next and wanting to read on. The reader will also be interested in how this turn affects other characters in the story.

The third turning point is where Joe decides to try out the Ouija board with another friend. With the Ouija board you can communicate with the dead, and Joe wants to find out if his friend Jonah is dead or alive. At this point we find out that Jonah is not dead. At this point the reader gets more information about a character, it’s a big piece of information which will change the story a lot. The reader might change his mind about what he thought about certain characters.

Turning point four changes dramatically what we thought about the character Anna. When Joe finds Jonahs backpack under the compost on Anna’s farm, she changes from being a polite and kind character to quite a scary character. She point’s a shotgun right into Joe’s face. Anna has been holding Jonah prisoner for years, now she wants to hold Joe prisoner too. This makes the reader think of what could happen next and if Joe manages to escape, how. At this point we start to get closer to the climax. The story gets more exciting because both of the main characters are in a bad situation and we want to find out how they get out of it – if they do.

The final turning point is where Joe knows that Anna wants to get rid of him, but not just let him go. Joe suspects that Anna will murder him because he already saw her digging a hole in the field where his body could easily fit in. He decides that the only thing he can do it set fire to the house. At night fire can be seen for miles and miles. He takes his t-shirt, pours perfume onto it and uses two ends of an electric cable to set it on fire. He notices that Anna is not coming for him and he is locked in the burning room. He manages to break through the door and escape. This is the climax of the story. There is so much going on and it’s a life or death situation for the main character. The reader will want to keep on reading to see how this situation affects the main characters.