A Flicker in the Dark
Ratings173
Average rating3.5
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Ratings173
Average rating3.5
“A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” ―Karin Slaughter
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?
From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.
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I immediately zeroed in on the brother. Then the narrator leads you to the boyfriend so I think ok maybe I was wrong about the brother. The author does a good job with breadcrumbs that lead you to where she wants you. In the end we learn the brother really did do it and that the boyfriend had nothing to do with it. There is also a surprise character involved that I hadn't suspected. It was slow in parts that made it feel longer then it was. Also, the mother who is non-verbal due to an self inflicted injury was able to communicate with Chloe after 20 years. This was so unbelievable. This would be a good book for someone just getting into thrillers.
I was really invested in this book until the last 75 pages. A weird romance thing, and the realization that what I had guessed at the very beginning ended up actually being true, plus the fact that it was a bit all over the place, lessened my enjoyment. I feel like it ended in a good place, but it could have been cleaned up a bit.
2.5
I wanted to love this, but there were too many red herrings that didn't actually fool you, and unimportant tangents. By the end of the book I was just tired.
