This is the first of a new series which takes places in New York's Hudson Valley. It's a quiet town, one of those places that everyone seems to know each other. Lots of atmosphere ...especially those of a series of murders that took place in the very early 1900s..which were never solved.
This picturesque little town has attracted a serial killer, one who's been killing for years with no one any the wiser. He does love those nice young ladies with porcelain skin, a smattering of freckles across their noses .. and those beautiful long strands of red hair. He always takes the hair with him when he's done .... but these are merely stand-ins. He's after one particular redhead ..but he's going to play games with her first.
Rowan Mundy is that redhead. She and her husband and their grown children returned here years ago ... she to run from a mistake she made. And now .. someone knows that secret ... and wants her to pay with her hair ... and her blood.
I can always count on this author to write a tightly knit suspenseful book... and she has succeeded once again. This one is a page turner. Highly recommend to anyone who likes mystery/suspense.
This picturesque little town has attracted a serial killer, one who's been killing for years with no one any the wiser. He does love those nice young ladies with porcelain skin, a smattering of freckles across their noses .. and those beautiful long strands of red hair. He always takes the hair with him when he's done .... but these are merely stand-ins. He's after one particular redhead ..but he's going to play games with her first.
Rowan Mundy is that redhead. She and her husband and their grown children returned here years ago ... she to run from a mistake she made. And now .. someone knows that secret ... and wants her to pay with her hair ... and her blood.
I can always count on this author to write a tightly knit suspenseful book... and she has succeeded once again. This one is a page turner. Highly recommend to anyone who likes mystery/suspense.
I haven't like any of Staub's books, I've tried several and her writing style is mostly just pages of nothing but descriptions with just a little story thrown in about every 20 pages or so.
This one is no exception, I had hoped for a good series to start with this one but I didn't make it past half way. The story is so hard to get into because she drags it out so much with all her unnecessary descriptions and meandering thoughts about this or that and the story is just not developing very fast at all.
I think the concept of the story would have been a good one if it was a tighter story with a little better plot instead of the usual 'revenge' theory for upsetting my life.
I didn't care about any of the characters in this book and between each chapter there is a newspaper article that I just didn't understand the purpose for that and what it was suppose to add to this story.
Overall I think I've reached the end for the author for good.
This one is no exception, I had hoped for a good series to start with this one but I didn't make it past half way. The story is so hard to get into because she drags it out so much with all her unnecessary descriptions and meandering thoughts about this or that and the story is just not developing very fast at all.
I think the concept of the story would have been a good one if it was a tighter story with a little better plot instead of the usual 'revenge' theory for upsetting my life.
I didn't care about any of the characters in this book and between each chapter there is a newspaper article that I just didn't understand the purpose for that and what it was suppose to add to this story.
Overall I think I've reached the end for the author for good.
great page turning thriller
I really tried to finish this book. I just could not do it. It was BORING. I do not like to review a book I could not finish but, it was so bad. The heroine was regretting her almost affair. There was a killer lurking in the background. He was fixated on redheads. But, she was the real one even though she dyed her hair blond. Even this review is boring. One star.
Good read. Interesting characters. Great deacription of the locations and scenery. Very suspensful.
