I received an eARC of this book from Netgalley and Touchstone.  Many thanks!
Summary:
Claudia inherits a beautiful house that just needs a little (okay, a lot) of TLC.  Still coming to terms with an old trauma in her life she moves herself and her teen daughter, Raven, there.  She begins a blog, going mapping out her journey trying to get the house fixed up.  The house, though has a history-secrets.  When that past comes home to roost will she be able to keep her family safe?
Zoey Drake is looking for answers.  The defining moment of her childhood was seeing her parents brutally murdered in their house and being beaten and left for dead.  She knows some of the names, but not all.  There’s one more.  As she grows, anger and vengeance take her over… the hunter within wants payback.  She thought she’d feel better after taking down one man, but felt nothing.  It’s time to go after the others and figure out the mystery man.  Is this really the life she wants, though, and what comes after?
The two lives swirl around each other, especially when it seems that someone has found the house’s deepest kept secret….
My thoughts:
I loved this book!  I am a huge fan of Unger’s work, and have all her novels.  In this book she brings her perfect sense of timing and drama to create a chilling atmosphere while allowing the characters to be very real, flawed, and touchable.  The story line had a good flow to it, and the premise was really engaging.  I loved all the side stories- Zoey’s cat sitting job, Raven’s desire to know where she really came from, Claudia’s struggle to come to terms with everything that has happened in her life.    For me, this was a five star book. 
As far as adult content goes, this one is really high.  There is a high level of violence including rape and murder.  I give it a seven.

I skipped Lisa Ungers last book as I have little patience with supernatural theme's. This book for me has been a return to form a solid interesting thriller exploring the themes of crime, revenge and retribution.

This is my favorite kind of book. One whose opening lines catch you, it's characters get under your skin and whose mystery keeps you guessing till the last pages. It's definitely a book that will stay in my mind and not be soon forgotten.

I think the best part for me was the melding of the two story lines, which was brilliant. And I adored Zoey, who was a fabulous heroine. She was tough and vulnerable and made the book come alive with her determination to find justice, or was it simply revenge?

I highly recommend this book to all lovers of psychological suspense, a little scary -check all of the closets and under the bed, and maybe don't read this when you're home alone at night. It was fabulous!

I was dragged kicking and screaming into this book. I won it first on goodreads, and after reading the reviews decided I didn't want to read it. Then I saw it on Netgalley and thought that maybe if I had it on my kindle I'd read it. Then I read a few other books! Finally, I saw it was going to be published soon, so I should stop mucking around. Turns out....I really enjoyed this book. What a knucklehead. I loved the characters, and was so intensely worried about what was going to happen to them. The mystery was compelling, and horrible. Past and present collides in a gut wrenching conclusion. I highly recommend this book, and I'd definitely read more from this author.

Claudia Bishop is on a mission. Her father died and left her the old farmhouse he purchased as an investment property. The house has been vacant for ten years. The prior tenants abandoned the dwelling leaving all of their furniture and possessions. Claudia decides to move in and is determined to find balance in her life by creating a home restoration project. She will document all home improvements and occasional blunders on her new blog. The project is therapeutic in nature as well. Claudia was brutally assaulted years ago. Daughter Raven was born nine months later. Is Raven a child of rape or the daughter of Claudia and husband Ayers? Claudia's marriage crumbles. She is unable to find peace. The farmhouse seems like the perfect solution.

Rewind ten years. This same farmhouse was the scene of a horrendous home invasion. Police Officer Chad Drake and wife Heather were brutally murdered. Zoey Drake, ten years old, was tortured, shot and left for dead. Chad Drake was $90,000 in debt. A well orchestrated theft of cash belonging to drug dealer Whitey Malone would solve all financial woes. The home invasion and murders occur because Chad cannot or will not tell the thugs where the million dollars from the heist is hidden in the house. Zoey, upon recovering from her wounds, goes to live with her Uncle Paul. She feels hollow and empty but consumed with rage. Zoey feels pain, anger, fear and sadness.

The farmhouse is a house of trauma. Claudia and Raven are unaware of its history. How could a rambling old farmhouse become a harrowing dwelling for not one, but two families?

"The Red Hunter" by Lisa Unger is a haunting, suspenseful tome with many twists and turns. The characters refer to their lives as "before" and "after" the devastating brutal attacks and try to make sense of their "new normal" lives. A well crafted read.

Thank you Touchstone Publishers and Net Galley for the opportunity to read and review "The Red Hunter".

Checking all windows and doors and under the bed. Why oh why do I read these types of books at night? Especially when I live in the middle of the woods!

"The Red Hunter" centers around one farmhouse and two women, Claudia and Zoey, both recovering from traumas of the past and things are about to get a whole lot worse. I won't say much more about the plot because this is one heck of a good story and the less you know the more you will enjoy it.

What I will say is that Lisa Unger writes really great characters that I couldn't help but get hooked into their story. Whether it was Claudia and her teenage daughter, Raven or Zoey and her guardian, Paul, I really enjoyed their relationships and dialogue.

Both victims of horrific attacks, Claudia & Zoey are strangers that are tied together by a house in the woods.

Claudia is starting over in the suburbs with her daughter. But the house needs a lot of work. Little did she know the house was the scene for murder over 10 years ago.

Zoey survived an attack 10 years ago, but her parents did not. Now teaching self-defense, she's still searching for those killers and trying to find out what happened that night.


I couldn't put this book down. Although it was confusing at first when the books bounced back and forth between the past and present and other characters. I had an idea of who was involved, but there were more details to work out. Highly recommend!

Have read previous books by Lisa Unger but think this is one of her best.
The characters are well rounded dealing with their traumas in very different ways. Their lives and their stories become intertwined.
Definately highly recommend!

Every word of this book was utterly terrifying this was my first Lisa unger book and I really enjoyed it.

I haven't read everything Lisa Unger has written but I've read enough to know I love her writing. One book I can now cross off my list is her newest one, Red Hunter, so called for the rage that lives inside one of the main characters. Due out the end of April 2017, it is sure to be in high demand the second it hits the shelves. This is definitely one that will have you reading way into the night or when you should be doing other things just so you can find out how it will end.

Claudia Bishop and Zoey Drake have both survived devastating physical assaults. While Claudia attempts to move past a brutal rape to make a new home for herself and her teenage daughter Raven, Zoey can only think about revenge while she repeatedly relives the night she was left for dead after she watched while her parents were murdered. What connects them is the old house that Claudia now lives in. Zoey and Claudia's stories move between past and present, twisting and weaving in and around each other like vines as the plot breathlessly builds right up to the end. I read this one quickly, loved it, and highly recommend it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Touchstone for providing me with an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

3 stars--I liked the book.

You know when you're reading a suspense novel, and you have this feeling of dread and worry because you can see the bad things coming for the characters? This book does that very, very well. I fretted for these characters, and raced through the chapters to get to the ending. This is my second Unger, and she knows how keep the pace brisk and build that feeling of suspense and dread.

I wasn't quite able to fully suspend my disbelief at the ending, but that didn't spoil a good build-up and a gripping, satisfying read. Recommended for suspense readers.

I received this review copy from the publisher on NetGalley. Thanks for the opportunity to read and review; I appreciate it!

"Some relationships are like pythons: they wrap around you, slowly squeezing until you can't breathe."

Is there a difference between justice and revenge? That is the main question of this book.

Claudia Bishop is brutally attacked and raped upon coming home after a night out with her husband. Her once, extremely happy marriage begins to crumble and she learns that she is pregnant. Is the baby her husband's or the rapist's? She deals with her increasing anxiety with writing a blog about life after rape. Soon her marriage ends and she eventually moves to the country in order to restore an old home and blog about it. The home has it's secrets as horrible things have happened there unbeknownst to Claudia.

Zoey Drake survived a brutal home invasion that left her Father and Mother dead. The masked men who attacked her family were looking for something they felt her father had hidden in the home. They never found what they were looking for the night they terrorized and murdered her family. After the attack, Zoey was raised by her uncle and dove into learning self defense in order to feel strong and help her cope with the trauma of her past.

Although they have never met, both women have things in common: both survived brutal attacks and both have struggled to move on with their lives. Plus, Claudia is restoring the home where Zoey's was attacked and her parents were murdered. Thus begins their collision course. A Collision course of justice, revenge, murder, greed, deceit, truth, love, and family.

I really enjoyed how Unger wove both women's stories. Usually when two story-lines are going I tend to really enjoy one more than the other. I can't say this was the case with this book. Both women had very compelling stories and sadness in their lives. Both story-lines were intriguing and I was invested in both. As I read I kept waiting to see how their stories would come together and they did so beautifully. What also worked for me was how certain "truths" came to light. The reader is privy to who some of the bad guys are - but not all. There is a question as to who else was involved and why. I enjoyed that through the telling of both women's stories, we also got a glimpse into Zoey's Father, Mother and Uncle Paul's life. We were slowly shown all the dots and slowly I was able to connect them.

This book flowed nicely for me. The pacing was perfect. It never felt drawn out nor did it feel rushed. I was absorbed the entire time. The characters were likable - except of course the one's we were never meant to like. I enjoyed this book. It was a fast highly enjoyable read. I highly recommend.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Lisa Unger knows how to write such a compelling thriller. She sucks you in right at the beginning and does not let you go. Claudia and Zoey 's stories are very different, but you slowly see they will intertwine. The build and the twists of the plot were very well done. The more I read, the more I had to know. This is a must read. Unputdownable!

For the most part I enjoyed this story. The story is told from two different points of view - Claudia, a rape victim, is trying to get her life back together by renovating an old house she inherited from her father and Zoey, who survived a home invasion where her parents were killed. It was interesting how these two women coped with their traumatic experiences.

There were a lot of different characters in this story, and I had a hard time keeping track of who everyone was.

Justice or revenge?

This is a story told from the points of view of two different women, both of whom suffered terrible acts against them in the past. The story centers around a rundown house in Lost Valley, New Jersey. One of the women used to live there years ago when she was the sole survivor of a brutal attack on her family and the other woman is now renovating the house, trying to get on with her and her daughter's lives after she survived being raped years ago.

I enjoyed this story for the most part. But there were times that I kept mixing up which narrator was telling her story. Their stories had enough similarities that it was confusing at times.

Also, this is a story where I really had to not analyze the fine points of the tale too closely. Some parts I found pretty unbelievable. I know it's fiction and the old saying is 'truth is stranger than fiction' but there were a few 'oh, you have to be kidding me' moments throughout the book.

So, this was an okay read for one time through but it's not one I'll re-read and it's not unique enough that I would recommend it to friends to read.

I received this book from Touchstone Books through Net Galley in exchange for my unbiased review.

Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review! I LOVE Lisa Unger's thriller/suspense novels (not a huge fan of her Fantasy/Paranormal reads). I wasn't sure she could top <i>In the Blood</i>, but she just seems to keep getting impossibly better. I can always count on Unger to entertain in a heart-pounding way, and this book was no exception. I was so hooked after the first five pages, I found myself losing track of time...and losing sleep.....again. She is a master at drawing very flawed, very real characters the reader can connect with. Two wronged women and one menacing house with a powerful, dark past set the stage for a heart-pounding race to the end where their paths collide in a choke hold. Zoey is one of those protagonists you love to sink your teeth into. She's strange and damaged, but you gradually discover why and wonder why she's not gone off the deep end altogether (comparisons to [author:Stieg Larsson's|706255] widely popular protagonist Lisabeth Salander in the <i>Millennium</i> series comes to mind). Zoey's unspeakably tragic past snakes closer to, and eventually slams head on into, Claudia's own life of quiet desperation. Unger takes the reader on a hold-your-breath ride to the very end. Buckle your seat beat!

Claudia Bishop and her teenage daughter have moved in to her father’s old house, unaware of its disturbing past. Zoey Drake knows the house’s past all too well, and wants to erase it. Their paths will cross in an unexpected and frightening way. With RED HUNTER, Lisa Unger has written a thrilling story with great characters and a complex plot. It’s not often that we get a thriller where all of the major players are women, especially unconventional ones. I am a big fan of Unger’s loosely related books set in The Hollows and this book was just as satisfying. I look forward to her next!

Raven lives in a farm house with her divorced mom. Zoey lived in that same home when she was young. In this book you'll get to know them both, as well as Raven's mom, Zoey's Uncle Paul and several others. The story starts in the 'now', but goes back to the 'then' when needed to explain the story. Throw in a murder mystery, theft and a bit of romance and you have a great book. This was definitely a quick read for me.

Another stellar work by Lisa Unger that pulls you in and drags you along until the very end. The interwoven tale of Zoey, a modern day vigilante intent on her own brand of justice, and Claudia, a survivor trying to keep her family and burgeoning career intact, wind up becoming heroines for the millennium. The crime that altered Claudia's life, as well as the murder of Zoey's parents sends them both on a search that intersects . The trajectory can only lead to one thing for the both of them- either accepting the evil they know, or administering justice to those they feel deserve it. Their tale is beautifully written, with a sadness layered within deception, family loyalty, and unconditional love, biological and otherwise. Not to be missed.

It is very easy to see why Lisa Unger is a New York Times Bestselling Author. This book was fantastic! Claudia Bishop is renovating an old house left to her by her father. Little does she know, this home was the scene of two murders and the torture of a young girl. That girl is Zoey and she wants revenge for the death of her mother and father. This is the story of how Claudia's and Zoey's live connect, and how they figure out who committed these murders. The author does a remarkable job of slowly letting the reader know how everything fits together. This story is suspenseful, engaging and very well written. I read it in two days and that was only because I had to go to sleep. Highly recommend if you like to read thrillers.