ALC Review: Remote: The Six by Eric Rickstad
Remote: The Six
Series: Remote #1
Author: Eric Rickstad
Narrator: Ari Fliakos
To Be Published: April 8, 2025
Audiobook: 8 hours 34 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: March 10-21, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
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.
Jessica’s Review:
This novel is released tomorrow, and I am sharing my review with you today!
The Six is the first in the Remote Series with the second book scheduled to come out July 8th. The Six is about a serial killer, the Tableau Killer, who graphically kills families. This is a dark and could be a disturbing book to some readers because the Tableau Killer does kill children. The Tableau Killer has been killing for eighteen months and Special Agent Stark grudgingly ends up with Gilles Garnier, a partner with a unique ability. And together Stark and Garnier track down and try to hunt down this killer before he tortures and kills another family. All while uncovering many secrets.
Stark is our main character and he is a very flawed and unlikeable person. He has been working this case for sometime and is also estranged from his family. We see both Stark’s professional and personal lives. I was leery of Garnier for most of the book, but he did eventually grow on me.
The main story is solved with The Six, but the ending also leads into the second book in the series which as of now is scheduled to be released on July 8th. I might just be interested in continuing this series. Especially seeing that the narrator for The Six Ari Fliakos returns to narrate the second book in the series: The Five. I really enjoyed his narration, Fliakos definitely added to the ‘creepy factor’ of this novel for me!
The Six is my first novel by Rickstad, and I may find myself looking at what else he has written!
Pre-Order Links:
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Amazon UK