SPECTRAL REWIND: THE CLASS OF ‘81
By Terry Lloyd Vinson
Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books
Genre: Mystery
ISBN: Paper: 978-1-934041-68-03
Pages: Paper: 279
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Would your high school graduating class make an interesting documentary? What if your twenty-fifth reunion was…murder interesting?
Matt Kirby is a documentary filmmaker who proposes to tell the story of one small town success stories. Four graduates all made it big, The Infamous Four. Peter Vincent went from class clown to stand-up comedian and character actor in low budget movies. Brenda Jamison went from being dead poor to being a U.S. Senator. Christopher Greene was the quiet star athlete who ended up writing successful books under a pseudonym. High school’s Most Beautiful cheerleader, Lisa Monroe Clarke turned model then opened her own modeling agency. All from the same small Alabama town; all in the same graduating class.
What will be remembered more--the accomplishments or the murders? Matt wants to showcase the successes, but knows he will have to show the chilling unsolved murders and his new producer wants more death and less success. The townsfolk want peace. They don’t want any more Vengeful Phantom theories.
At first “Spectral Rewind” reads similar to “The Blair Witch Project.” However, there is far less jumble and more suspense. “Spectral Rewind” is a page-turner. It is as simple and straightforward as any suspense mystery can get. It is subtly powerful.
Mr. Vinson uses Matt’s voice to bring the action and setting alive. Matt’s narrative breaks the fourth wall to make an intimate connection with this reader. Mr. Vinson uses straight story writing along with an interview format to unfold his mystery. This smoothly breaks the reading into snippets of current action and remembered experiences through other characters.
I could not put “Spectral Rewind” down. I could not uncover the conclusion even with all the pieces presented. I would read Mr. Vinson again…and again.
More, please.