A serial killer is rampaging across the country, tying families to chairs–arranged in puzzling tableaus–then murdering them, without leaving a trace of evidence.

FBI Special Agent Lukas Stark has been hunting the Tableau Killer for eighteen months but is always two steps behind in a maze of dead ends. He has no understanding of why the killer stages the scenes so meticulously or chooses entire families. Burning out, Stark is forced to take on a new partner, Gilles Garnier.

Garnier, an odd loner with a vague past, claims he’s a remote viewer who “sees” people, places, and events far away–remote–as if they’re right in front of him. Stark knows this sort. Cons. Wannabes desperate to worm their way onto a sensational case. Stark dismisses his new partner as a fraud … until Garnier precisely describes a new Tableau Killer crime scene from hundreds of miles away.

As Stark and Garnier track the Tableau Killer across the country, they start to believe they finally have the advantage. But Garnier’s ability to remote view fails him and leaves him ill and weak. Then Stark realizes how the killer has stayed ahead of them all this time. The reason is more terrifying than either man can fathom.

They face a killer who may be unstoppable, and stand at the abyss of a conspiracy so ominous, it shakes their reality to the core.

Review:

Suspenseful, addictive, and twisty!

In this absorbing first instalment in the Remote series, The Six, Rickstad has written a sharp, sinister thrill ride featuring the consumed, relentless FBI Special Agent Lukas Stark and his new strangely talented partner Gilles Garnier as they join forces to hunt a cold, calculating serial killer who has a penchant for reenacting the same heinous crime over and over and somehow always seems to be one step ahead.

The writing is taut and intense. The characters are meticulous, persistent, and tormented. And the plot is an engrossing, eerie whodunit full of twists, turns, obsession, depravity, violence, and murder, all interwoven with a dab of the supernatural.

Overall, Remote: The Six is a fast-paced, tortuous, disturbing tale by Rickstad that not only leaves you eager for me but also spending a little time contemplating the idea of remote viewing and the potentially horrific consequences and evil it could lead to.

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