The writer is decent but in this particular novel, he didn't seem much like he cared about it. This novel is based in South Carolina about a family that has never met their father's relatives but something causes them to leave their home in Connecticut (where the father's life has been planted for at least twenty years & his wife, plus 2 children know of nowhere else to call home) They arrive, meet the relatives, things happen & even more things happen but the novel just lacks any depth. The only interesting 1 is the killer. The characters are one dimensional...I will tell you that it does read like a bad-horror-flick.