We Are All the Same in the Dark

This was an Advanced Reader Copy via NetGalley & the publishers in exchange for an honest review.

3.5/5

I dropped it a half star in my mind because I guessed who the killer was in the first half.

We Are All the Same in the Dark is a mystery/thriller set in small town Texas where the stories of two missing girls ten years apart weave and wind together as local cops try to solve these cases.

The PoV switches quite dramatically midway through so we primarily see things through the eyes of two different women. This keeps the story fresh and sets it apart from some the usual police-hunt-badguys thriller staples out there.

Heaberlin builds up two solid, well built main characters who we can sympathise with and understand their motivations. Some of the supplementary characters are a little more obtuse but that's necessity of the mystery genre.

Overall it's a well-structured, -paced and -finished novel that delivers a good storyline with believable characters.