As they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of a legendary figure called Prince of the Mists begins to emerge.

Everyone on board perished except for one man - an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach.During the dive, Max sees something that leaves him cold - on the old mast floats a tattered flag and on it is the symbol of the circle and six-pointed star. But Max spends most of his time with his new friend Roland, who takes him diving to the wreck of a boat that sank close to the coast in a terrible storm. As the family settles in they grow increasingly uneasy: they discover a box of old films belonging to the Fleischmanns his sister has unsettling dreams and his other sister hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. Max has the curious sensation that the statue is beckoning to him. In the centre of the garden is the large statue of a clown set in another six-pointed star. When he goes to investigate, Max finds that the statues seem to consist of a kind of circus troop. Like The Shadow of the Wind, the story takes place during World War II. The author states in an introductory note that he hopes the young adult books hes written will appeal to readers of all ages. This is a relatively short horror novel for young adults. Behind the house Max spies an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star. The Prince of Mist by Ruiz Zafon is a much different book but still very enjoyable. They move into a house that was built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife but was abandoned when the couple's son drowned in a tragic accident. The novel begins when Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast.

The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón