The Remains Virtual Book Tour November & December ’10

The Remains

Join Vincent Zandri, author of the thriller suspense novel, The Remains (Stone House Ink), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in November & December ‘10 on his fourth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Vincent Zandri

Vincent Zandri 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.

His latest book is the bestselling thriller novel, The Remains.

You can visit his website at www.vincentzandri.com or his blog at www.vincentzandri.blogspot.com.

About The Remains

The Remains sm 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.

Purchase the Kindle edition of The Remains for $2.99 by clicking here!

Read the Excerpt!

October 2, 2008
Albany, New YorkIn the deep night, a woman sits down at her writing table. Fingering a newly sharpened pencil, she focuses her eyes upon the blank paper, brings the black pencil tip to it.
She begins to write.

Dear Mol,
I’ve been dreaming about you again. I don’t think a night has gone by in the past few weeks when I haven’t seen your face. Our face, I should say. The face is always in my head; implanted in my memories. The dream is nothing new. It’s thirty years ago again. It’s October. I’m walking close behind you through the tall grass towards the woods. Your hair is loose and long. You’re wearing cut-offs, white Keds with the laces untied and a red T-shirt that says ‘Paul McCartney and Wings’ on the front. You’re walking ahead of me while I try to keep up; but afraid to keep up. Soon we come to the tree line, and while my heart beats in my throat, we walk into the trees. But then comes a noise—a snapping of twigs and branches. The gaunt face of a man appears. A man who lives in a house in the woods.
Then, just like that, the dream shifts and I see you kneeling beside me inside the dark empty basement. I hear the sound of your sniffles, smell the wormy raw earth, feel the cold touch of a man’s hand. You turn and you look at me with your solid steel eyes. And then I wake up.
We survived the house in the woods together, Mol, and we never told a soul. We just couldn’t risk it. Whelan would have come back for us. He would have found us. He would have found mom and dad. Even today, I know he surely would have. He would have killed them, Mol. He would have killed us. In just five days, thirty years will have passed. Three entire decades and I’m still convinced we did the right thing by keeping that afternoon in the woods our secret.
When I see you in my dreams it’s like looking in a mirror. The blue eyes, the thick lips, the dirty blond hair forever just touching the shoulders. My hair is finally showing signs of grey, Mol.
I wonder, do you get gray hair in heaven? I wonder if Whelan’s hair burned off in hell? I wonder if he suffers?
All my love,
Your twin sister,
Rebecca Rose Underhill

Exhaling, the woman folds the letter neatly into thirds, slips it into a blank stationary envelope, her initials RRU embossed on the label. Running the bitter sticky glue interior over her tongue, she seals the envelope, sets it back down onto the writing table. Once more she picks up the pencil, brings the now dulled tip to the envelope’s face. Addressing it she writes only a name:
Molly Rose Underhill

The job done, the woman smiles sadly. Opening the table drawer, she sets the letter inside, on top of a stack of nine identical letters-never-sent. One for every year her sister has been gone.
Closing the drawer she hears her cell phone begin to vibrate, then softly chime. Picking it up off the desktop, she opens the phone, sees that a new text has been forwarded to her electronic mailbox. Fingering the in-box, she retrieves the message.
Rebecca is all it says.
Punching the command that reveals the name and number of the sender she finds “Caller Unknown.” The sender’s number has been blocked. Closing the phone back up, she sets it down on the desk. That’s when the wind picks up, blows and whistles through the open window.
“Mol,” she says, staring out into the darkness. “Mol, is that you?”

Read what critics are saying about THE REMAINS!

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.”

— CelticLady’s Reviews

“I can sum up my thoughts on this book in three very simple words.  Masterful. Suspenseful. Amazing. I know that I will be buying a bound copy of this book as well so that I can share it around my bibliophile group of friends. If you are a reader of mysteries, a lover of suspense, this is definitely a book for you! Go ahead, give it a read.”

— A Fanatic’s Book Blog

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The Remains Virtual Book Tour Schedule

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haunted house Monday, November 1
Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Tuesday, November 2
Guest blogging at Martha’s Bookshelf
Interviewed at Let’s Talk Virtual Book Tours

Wednesday, November 3
Book trailer spotlighted at Pump Up Your Book

Thursday, November 4
Guest blogging at The Book Faery Reviews

Friday, November 5
Interviewed at Examiner

Monday, November 8
Guest blogging at Literarily Speaking

Wednesday, November 10
Book reviewed at Ashley’s Bookshelf

Thursday, November 11
Guest blogging at Donna’s Blog Home

Monday, November 15
Guest blogging at Books R Us

Tuesday, November 16
Book reviewed at Books R Us

Wednesday, November 17
Book reviewed at Reading at the Beach

Thursday, November 18
Guest blogging at Reading, Reading and Life

Monday, November 22
Book reviewed at WV Stitcher

Wednesday, November 24
Book reviewed at Book and Movies Reviews

Thursday, November 25
CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING

Friday, November 26
Book reviewed at Lucky Rosie’s
Book reviewed at Cuzinlogic

Monday, December 6
Book reviewed at Rundpinne
Book reviewed at Knowlton Nest

Tuesday, December 7
Book reviewed at Just One More Paragraph
Book reviewed at Ohio Girl Talks

Wednesday, December 8
Book spotlighted at In the Next Room (review will be announced soon)
Book reviewed at DK’s Book Reviews

Thursday, December 9
Book spotlighted at Book Sanctuary
Book reviewed at From the TBR Pile

Friday, December 10
Book reviewed at Musings of an All-Purpose Monkey
Book reviewed at Ashley’s Bookshelf

Monday, December 13
Book reviewed at Reading, Reading and Life

Tuesday, December 14
Guest blogging at Night Owl Reviews
Book reviewed at Psychotic State Book Reviews

Wednesday, December 15
Book reviewed at The Book Faery Reviews
Book reviewed at Donna’s Blog Home

Thursday, December 16
Book reviewed & interviewed at As I Turn the Pages
Book reviewed at Proud Book Nerd
Book reviewed at Colloquium

Friday, December 17
Book reviewed by Book Reviews by Molly

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Vincent Zandri’s THE REMAINS VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on November 1 and end on December 17 2010. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing his book or click here to use the form. Thank you!

Update!  Vincent Zandri’s THE REMAINS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR is now full.  Thanks to all blog hosts and reviewers!

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