A review by erinecarroll
Blood Red: Mundy's Landing Book One by Wendy Corsi Staub

3.0

I always enjoy diving into a new Wendy Corsi Staub book around this time of year. The story line of this one fell a little flat for me. I felt like my attention wasn't grabbed and that I was skimming some of the chapters.

Spoiler

In the end it turns out that the murderer was Rick's step-son Kurt. Rick was the neighbor that Rowan almost had an affair with 14 years earlier. Kurt witnessed an incident of Rick and Rowan kissing when he was just a young boy. He became obsessed with watching his parents and became fixated on Rowan and her red hair. Years later, Kurt's mother committed suicide and Kurt blamed Rick for this. Kurt started to murder red-headed young women and one of his signature marks was to shave their heads until they were bald. Kurt ends up killing Rick and making it look like it was a suicide (in the same fashion that his wife killed herself years ago). In the end, Rowan's sister almost gets killed because Kurt mistakes her for Rowan (Rowan had since dyed her hair blonde and her sister Noreen had red hair). In the end, Rowan and her family are ok.

I guess I just felt like this book lacked action and it wasn't the classic "thriller/horror" that I have come to expect from Wendy. I have since started the second book in the series and it has already grabbed my attention more than Blood Red . I am interested to read more about the Sleeping Beauty Murders because I think that is a more interesting story line.