Drew Landreth

Fatal Dreams Drew Landreth

Fatal Dreams-a dark, psychological thriller. In the fall of 1967 three teens discover a severed head: one of the links in a nostalgic dreamer's quest to find his missing love. October of 2000: Seattle based real estate appraiser Tim Carol is plagued with angst over the sudden disappearance of his childhood sweetheart, Sheri Riddick. In a desperate effort to find her, Tim probes his past . . . Preteens reeling with infatuation in the summer of '66, he and Sheri fantasize about their future. In the fall of '67 bizarre playmate Robert Bowden, renowned for telling macabre tales, mesmerizes Tim and Sheri with a nightmare experience in which he discovers the headless corpses of Sheri and her family. Years later Tim becomes immersed in cataclysmic events that reveal shocking atrocities. After narrowly escaping death Tim returns to his old neighborhood where he deciphers the motive behind the crimes. In the end Tim reconciles his past and breaks the chains of his nostalgia. A complex yet savory dark, psychological thriller with plenty of meat to the bone-well worth digesting. Compelling commercial fiction: the intimacy of children, the twisted obsession of a fiend, and the revelation of secrets to a protagonist desperate for the truth. An alluring visual odyssey that propels the reader through a wistful idealist's poignant, soul-searching probe of his childhood through middle age as he grapples with mystery, murder, mayhem, and his fixation with his past and classic movies. From nostalgic bestsellers to jukebox oldies, ties to the past are a haven from life's stress. Fatal Dreams, which explores children's lives in the 1960s, their fate as adults, and one child's inexorable psychosis, appeals to those who cherish escapism and are intrigued by psychotic killers.