When Theresa Gonsalves published OBSESSIONS in 2004 the anticipation for her next novel began … Any day now
became three years as she researched and put into words her new book, The Man in the Woods, whose main character is
destined to become the most hated man alive. In her luminous, long awaited new novel, author, Theresa J. Gonsalves,
takes readers through the life and into the mind of a child molester, her brother, whom she refers to as the title name of her
book … The Man in the Woods!
Ask yourself: If you knew someone in your
family committed a major crime … perhaps a
serial killer or possibly a murderer, maybe a
child molester or perchance a rapist … would
you have the fortitude or the courage to put
them away?
Then imagine finding out that your brother has
been molesting little boys for over twenty-five
years. He takes them, hides them in the woods
where he lives, and when he tires of them he
discards them out on their own. Too ashamed to
come forward the kids, who have come to love
him, never reveal him as the monster he is. Do
you remain silent?
When Theresa finds out such a thing about her
brother Steven, she contacts Virginia Beach
special victims unit only to find in view of the
fact that she wasn’t a victim, there wasn’t
anything she could do. When she wasn’t able to
stop him with the police, she decides to expose
him to the world and at the same time try to
figure out why! “Why does a serial killer kill?”
she wondered. “Why does a child molester
molest?”
While searching for answers she takes you back
in time, through the life and into the mind of a
child molester … her brother … The Man in the
Woods!