A Flicker In the Dark by Stacy Willingham @svwillingham @MinotaurBooks

 

“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.

Read an Excerpt here

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My Review 

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

This debut really had me on the edge of my seat as the story progressed.
Just when I was sure of who the killer might be things shifted as my focus was drawn somewhere else. The final reveal was good. It was someone I suspected at the beginning but dismissed.

Twenty years ago, when Chloe Davis was twelve years old, six teenage girls went missing from her small town. When Chloe discovers a box of jewelry filled with pieces from the missing girls in the back of her parent's closet, she goes to the police, and her father is arrested. He's labeled a serial killer and promptly thrown in prison.

Now Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rogue living with her fiance and prepping for their upcoming wedding. Her life is now seemingly happy after her rough childhood when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another. The last one was a new patient and she's beginning to see similarities to what happened in her small town all those years ago.

Thanks so much to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC to review.

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