Blood Red (Mundy's Landing Series #1)

by Wendy Corsi Staub

Overview

From New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub comes the first in a terrifying new series set in a small town with a sinister secret

The razor's gleaming blade slices effortlessly through skin and tendon, and he relishes the final anguished moments of his prey. There's only one thing he prizes more: their long, silken strands of red hair. But these women are merely stand-ins . . . a prelude to his ultimate victim.

Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley, Mundy's Landing is famous for its picturesque setting—and for a century-old string of gruesome unsolved murders. Rowan returned to her hometown years ago, fleeing a momentary mistake that could have destroyed her family. Life is good here. Peaceful. Until an anonymous gift brings Rowan's fears to life again.

The town's violent history was just the beginning. Soon everyone in Mundy's Landing will know that the past cannot be forgotten or forgiven—not until every sin has been paid for, in blood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062349736
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/29/2015
Series:	Mundy's Landing Series , #1
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	144,613
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 4.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

USA Today and New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than seventy novels and has twice been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in the New York City suburbs with her husband and their two children.

Editorial Reviews

I loved BLOOD RED…it’s suspenseful and scary. This is a serious winner!” — Alison Gaylin

“Wendy Corsi Staub is a master of the domestic thriller, and BLOOD RED is a perfect example of her mastery. Lock your doors, turn on your porch light, and brace yourself for a deliciously scary novel.” — Tom Savage, author of Mrs. John Doe

“A quiet town’s dark past and a serial killer’s quest for his ideal victim create a perfect storm in Staub’s frothy new thriller.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Elation will be felt knowing Staub is at it again, offering up a new and terrifying series that will have readers wanting more. [...] This book has a terrific plotline that keeps readers guessing up until the last page…” — Suspense Magazine

“Wendy Corsi Staub is indisputably a flawless storyteller...This tense suspense page-turner illustrates Staub is not at the top of her game, but is the game!” —Diane Morasco — Long Island Book Reviews Examiner

From the Publisher

Elation will be felt knowing Staub is at it again, offering up a new and terrifying series that will have readers wanting more. [...] This book has a terrific plotline that keeps readers guessing up until the last page…

Suspense Magazine

I loved BLOOD RED…it’s suspenseful and scary. This is a serious winner!

Alison Gaylin

Wendy Corsi Staub is indisputably a flawless storyteller...This tense suspense page-turner illustrates Staub is not at the top of her game, but is the game!” —Diane Morasco

Long Island Book Reviews Examiner

Wendy Corsi Staub is a master of the domestic thriller, and BLOOD RED is a perfect example of her mastery. Lock your doors, turn on your porch light, and brace yourself for a deliciously scary novel.

Tom Savage

2015-06-25
A quiet town's dark past and a serial killer's quest for his ideal victim create a perfect storm in Staub's (The Perfect Stranger, 2014, etc.) frothy new thriller. Once a local troublemaker, Rowan Mundy has returned to her upstate New York hometown of Mundy's Landing—she's related by marriage to the village's founder—to settle down with her husband and three children. Now a teacher at the elementary school she once attended, Rowan lives a quiet life with her devoted husband, Jake, and her youngest son, Mick, who will soon join his brother and sister in college. Though Mundy's Landing seems quaint—always a bad sign in a crime novel—its history is drenched in blood and the town has never quite recovered from the so-called Sleeping Beauty murders, an unsolved triple murder of three unidentified girls a century earlier. While Rowan goes about small-town life, a killer with a penchant for straight razors and redheaded women—guess what color hair Rowan has—is leaving a steady stream of corpses along the East Coast as it becomes clear that he's working his way toward his ultimate target. When an anonymous package arrives at Rowan's door, triggering memories of mistakes she'd like to forget and a secret she's kept from Jake for 14 years, Rowan's perfect life begins to slowly unravel, just as the killer zeroes in on Mundy's Landing. While the subject matter may seem gruesome, the violence is fairly muted and Staub mostly maintains the suspense throughout, despite a few too many coincidences.

Kirkus Reviews