I am pleased to be participating in the blog tour for The Remains by Vincent Zandri. After this post you will find a list of other blogs that are also participating in the virtual book tour. Check out their blogs to read their reviews...
About The Remains from Pump Up Your Books
"Thirty years ago, teenager Rebecca Underhill and her twin sister Molly were abducted by a man who lived in a house in the woods behind their upstate New York farm. They were held inside that house for three horrifying hours, until making their daring escape.
Vowing to keep their terrifying experience a secret in order to protect their mother and father, the girls tried to put the past behind them. And when their attacker was hunted down by police and sent to prison, they believed he was as good as dead.
Now, it’s 30 years later, and with Molly having passed away from cancer, Rebecca, a painter and art teacher, is left alone to bear the burden of a secret that has only gotten heavier and more painful with each passing year.
But when Rebecca begins receiving some strange anonymous text messages, she begins to realize that the monster who attacked her all those years ago is not dead after all. He’s back, and this time, he wants to do more than just haunt her. He wants her dead."
My thoughts:
This is a totally creepy story about the ultimate evil. When Rebecca and her twin sister Molly were young they went into the forest behind their house. They had been forbidden to ever go into the woods by their father who was is a state trooper. Molly convinces Rebecca to go with her into the woods and explore the old house that is there. While inside a man finds them there and attacks the girls. They do manage to get away and never tell anyone of their attack. 30 years later, Molly is gone, having passed away from cancer, Rebecca starts getting weird texts. She starts to think that it is her sister Molly trying to get in touch with her.
The man, Joseph Whelan, who attacked Rebecca and her sister has been released from prison, after being caught and imprisoned for an unrelated crime. He has not forgotten the little girls though and wants to be with the surviving twin once again.
I enjoyed this book very much, stayed up late to finish it and then had to make sure all the doors were locked. A story of how a woman survives the worst sort of attack from a truly evil person. An edge of your seat suspenseful and scary story.
The Remains author, Vincent Zandri, is an award-winning novelist, essayist and freelance photojournalist. His novel As Catch Can (Delacorte) was touted in two pre-publication articles by Publishers Weekly and was called “Brilliant” upon its publication by The New York Post. The Boston Herald attributed it as “The most arresting first crime novel to break into print this season.” Other novels include the bestselling, Moonlight Falls,Godchild (Bantam/Dell) and Permanence (NPI). Translated into several languages including Japanese and the Dutch, Zandri’s novels have also been sought out by numerous major movie producers, including Heyday Productions and DreamWorks. Presently he is the author of the blogs, Dangerous Dispatches and Embedded in Africa for Russia Today TV (RT). He also writes for other global publications, including Culture 11, Globalia and Globalspec. Zandri’s nonfiction has appeared in New York Newsday, Hudson Valley Magazine, Game and Fish Magazine and others, while his essays and short fiction have been featured in many journals including Fugue, Maryland Review and Orange Coast Magazine. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College and is a 2010 International Thriller Writer’s Awards panel judge. Zandri currently divides his time between New York and Europe. He is the drummer for the Albany-based punk band to Blisterz.
I received this book from Dorothy at Pump Up Your Books for review and I was not monetarily compensated for this review.
You can learn more about this book tour here and visit the other blogs who are featuring Vincent Zandri interviews and reviews.
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