Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the eARC of this book. The Ghoul of Windydown Vale by Jake Burt was not my favorite of his books, but none the less, it was a good story. In an effort to keep children and strangers out of the dangerous swamp mud, Copper, the main character of the book, secretly "haunts" the town as a horrifying ghoul. Then a frightened girl, rides into town, screaming that she and her absent father were attacked by the ghoul and that the ghoul has taken her father. Copper knows that it wasn't him, so who or what was it? Thus begins the mystery... This book had lots of twists and turns which kept me guessing where the story was headed.