Really, though, Chloe is a mess, self medicating with prescription drugs and alcohol.
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A serial killer kidnapped and killed six girls, that killer was her father, and he's now rotting in prison, having ruined the lives of so many people.Ĭhloe has tried to move on, with her practice, which reminds her too much of the past, and with her upcoming wedding to Daniel. What her father did, when she was twelve, tore families apart and terrified a small town. Get your first book for $5 here.Ī Flicker in the Dark by Stacy WillinghamĬhloe Davis, a thirty two year old psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge, has a family past that will haunt her for the rest of her life. This was a pick for my Book of the Month box. The way everything comes together is really the highlight of the book, and made this a worthwhile read for me. I wouldn't necessarily say any of it is surprising (I've read too many thrillers at this point), but it is exciting. The pacing does finally pick up in the last 100 pages, and we are treated to one revelation after another. I think a lot of what I found to be slow is what a lot of readers find fascinating, so your experiences may be the opposite of mine. However, that's just a personal preference. I always enjoy a more active investigation instead of a more active rumination. To be fair, this is a pretty common trope for the genre, but it just isn't my favorite as I find it to be pretty dull and a bit exasperating.Ĭlearly, this is the sort of psychological thriller that leans heavily towards the psychological side, whereas I like mine to be more on the thriller side. Instead, we spend a lot of time in Chloe's head as she ruminates, freaks out, consumes copious quantities of alcohol and prescription drugs, sticks her nose where it doesn't belong, and in general, just bumbles around being confused and paranoid. It's very slow, with hardly anything happening in the first 250 pages. Where this didn't quite work as well for me is the pacing. Chloe still suffers from the fallout of her childhood, and her narrative envelopes the whole story in her dark and foreboding mood. And coming at it from that angle makes this story feel fresh and unusual. I've read plenty of serial killer stories from the perspective of investigators, the victims and their families, and regular townspeople, but I'm not sure I've ever read one from the killer's own daughter. And Chloe can't help but feel there is a link between what's happening now and what happened so long ago. Now twenty years later, girls are going missing again.
The nightmare finally ended when her own father confessed to the killings, upending her childhood and leaving her family in ruins. When she was twelve years ago, six teenage girls disappeared in town, one right after another.
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In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter.Įven though A Flicker in the Dark has an interesting premise, its reliance on the confused and drugged-up female narrator trope prevented this story from being as great as it could've been.Ĭhloe Davis has lived in the shadow of fear for a long time. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer? And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town.
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