When I read the description, I figured that this would be an interesting book. The idea of a killer stalking the rails during the Great Depression was a novel idea, made even more so by the addition of some other interesting elements. Unfortunately the book just didn't deliver the way I was hoping it would. 
 The plotline follows the character of Connelly as he sets out to find the man who killed his daughter. He falls in with a group of several men who are also searching for the same man. All they know is that his face is heavily scarred & everyone calls him "Mr. Shivers". Those who have seen him & lived, shudder at the thought of him. With nothing to lose, these men are determined to finish him off. 
 The biggest flaw in the book are the characters. It's not that the idea of these characters are terrible, it's just that they aren't all that well fleshed out. It's like the author had all of these ideas & rather than select a few of them & develop them entirely, he put did a little bit of everything. There's characters who come in & out of Connelly's band of men, but they seem to be little more than just faceless people who have no other purpose but to be fodder for Mr. Shivers. They were so lacking in definition that I really didn't bother to memorize the names of anyone other than the main 4 guys. I'd rather that the author had just stuck with them rather than trot in a whole slew of extras. It really deterred from the story. 
 Again, the idea of the story is pretty interesting & I liked the direction it went into after the first third of the book. It's just that again, the story seemed to be marred by the author trying to cram too many ideas into one book. I think that if the author had paced himself a little more, the book would have been much improved by it. As it was, there were just so many events & so many people going in & out of the story that I just couldn't feel for the characters like I would have wanted to. When the big "TA DAH!" came & revelations occurred for several characters & situations, it just sort of fell a little flat. Like other people have mentioned, the book just felt a little shallow overall. 
 This isn't to say that the book is terrible, though. It's very rough, but it shows a lot of promise. I'll be interested to see what the author comes up with in future books, although I will admit that I'll probably wait for them to come to paperback first.