In Frank Tillier’s novel “Forest of Shadows” (2007), the elderly billionaire Arthur Dofr decides, with the help of aspiring writer David Miller, to fulfill a long-standing dream: to resurrect a serial killer known as Executioner-125 on the pages of the book. As a result of this strange whim, David and his wife and little daughter, as well as Dofr and his young mistress, are to spend a whole month in a German backwater, the heart of a black forest. Cold, snow, lost in the chalet more often. The writer passionately takes up the story of a psychopathic killer, but soon it becomes clear to everyone that something strange is happening in the chalet, and some doors definitely should not be opened...