A Flicker in the Dark

Author: Stacy Willingham

Genre: Suspense/Thriller/Mystery

Pages: 368

Other books: All the Dangerous Things, Only if You're Lucky

Star Rating: 4 = Very Good

We are taken to the south in a small town in Louisiana with a therapist, Chole Davis. Early on we learn she has issues of her own past with her father and what that has done to her and her family. The is one main reason of why she became a therapist for teenagers with troubled pasts. She wants to help others that have gone through struggles similar to hers. Her life is playing out well, she is a doctor, new beautiful home and recently engaged. Chole has strategically placed herself in a great spot in her life to finally move away from her past. Her father has committed the most terrible crimes and Chole wants to be a separated from any connection. For a daughter to have to experience and bare with the repercussions of her father’s crimes involving teenage girls, it hits too close to home when another teenage girl goes missing in her town of Baton Rouge.

Chole tries desperately to disconnect from the recent missing teenager but somehow she finds herself intertwined in it. Is she convening herself that this is connected to her father? Is she so splintered from her past that she is confused and paranoid or are these bridging to her and her family? Will talking with her father that she hasn’t seen since she was 12 who is locked away forever that committed similar crimes just like the ones she tries to help everyday solve anything?

Easily enjoyable. The author does a great job by showing how hopelessly Chole is feeling with her mixed success and brokenness from her family. It enhances the trust in characters and easily convinces to overlook some hidden cues. I appreciate the detailed time to connect the new crime that has happened around Chole that can be either taken as illusion or factual. One drawn back is the authenticity of the events that concluded the crimes from her father and small detailed situations that happened leading up. You might question as I did, “Would that really happen in todays time?”