The Barrens

"Joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamond Smith) turns her literary skills to the startling, complex tale of a serial killer and the stories of the people that his ghastly crimes touch - and transform."."People like Matt McBride. Matt was barely out of junior high when the mutilated body of the first victim - a popular, pretty teenager - was uncovered in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens. Although he had hardly known the girl, Matt has long felt guilty at not having been able somehow to preve...