THE WHISPER MAN

The Whisper Man Brings a Chilling Serial Killer Mystery to Netflix

Some childhood rhymes are better left forgotten.

The Whisper Man, now streaming on Netflix, brings Alex North's bestselling thriller to the screen with Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan and Adam Scott leading a mystery involving a missing child, a notorious serial killer and a decades-old case that may not be as finished as everyone believed.

The story centers on a widowed crime writer whose 8-year-old son is abducted. Desperate to find him, he turns to his estranged father, a retired police detective with a troubling connection to the case.

Years earlier, his father helped capture a serial killer known as “The Whisper Man,” whose crimes became associated with an eerie playground rhyme warning children that the Whisper Man could come for them.

The killer was caught and imprisoned.

Or at least, that was supposed to be the end of the story.

When children begin disappearing again, disturbing similarities to the original crimes raise questions about whether someone has brought the Whisper Man's methods back — and why the latest kidnapping appears connected to the detective and his family.

Based on Alex North's New York Times bestselling novel, The Whisper Man combines a serial-killer investigation with a much more personal story about a fractured relationship between a father and son.

As the search for the missing boy intensifies, solving the mystery means digging into a past that some people would rather leave buried.

And somewhere in the middle of it all is that unsettling childhood rhyme.

Because if the Whisper Man really is back, catching him once may not have been enough.

The Whisper Man is now streaming on Netflix.