Something to look for

One of the best thrillers of the 1990s was A Simple Plan. The plot is fairly standard in that a few men find a large cache of money and this leads to tragedy. What sets the book apart was the moral ambiguity of the plot. The main character appears to be a good person, but this becomes less evident as time goes on. Was he a bad person or did the greed do it? Anyway, it's a fun read. Scott Smith wrote that book in the early 90s and hadn't published anything else until this year.

His new book is called the Ruins. It involves a group of Cancun tourists getting chased around some ruins in the Yucatan jungles. Stephen King has a brief review on Amazon. I'm excited about this one, as I really like the scary-thing-chasing-people-around-a-spooky place genre, as exemplified by Relic.