A Scary Book- Don't Look Back

 A Scary Book

Don't Look Back by Greg Hurwitz

I read 2 books over the Xmas holidays. Don’t  Look Back by Greg Hurwitz was certainly a scary thriller and I should have known this from the book cover - the silhouette of a large man looking out from a jungle.

The plot goes like this:

A  new divorcee decides to get over her depression by going for her dream vacation to a primitive eco-camp in the jungle area of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico.

She feels it will be a confidence restorer as she  will be doing all kinds of adventurous things she hasn’t done before like rafting , and hiking and meeting new and different people.  The camp which is fairly primitive and hidden in the jungle has just a few other guests and starts out well. 

It is interesting and she is learning a lot of new activities but then she sees a strange man lurking in the jungle  close to the camp and she senses that he is dangerous. She finds a  digital camera  close by on the jungle floor and wants to return the camera only the lady who owned the camera has disappeared  without trace and photos of the strange man are on the camera.

The menacing man is lurking around the camp, a raging storm is approaching  , the vacation is no longer the fun experience but  becomes a  fight for life in a strange and overwhelming territory. and so the real  scary part begins…….

And  then of course you just have to read it to the end !