Book Review: A Cry in the Dark

About the Book

When doing the right thing goes horribly wrong…

Caroline Blakely is certain of two things: She was happy with her life as a first grade school teacher, and she can never, ever return to it. 

After discovering a shocking truth about her father, the wealthy businessman at the helm of Blakely Oil, she’s on the run – a difficult feat given her father’s endless resources and connections.

With the help of friends, Carly is able to secure a new identity, but her attempts to keep a low profile are blown to bits when she gets stuck in Drum, Tennessee. When she investigates a cry in the parking lot outside her motel room, she finds herself the lone witness to a murder. 

Stranded in the small Appalachian Mountain town, she soon realizes that Drum is as riddled with secrets as her own past. A huge chunk of the intrigue centers around the Drummond family, ancestors of the town’s founders, and their oldest son, Wyatt – an ex-con.

She knows she’d do best to stay away from the Drummonds, especially Wyatt, and from the mystery she’s stumbled upon, but Carly’s sense of right and wrong demands that she help, even if it means risking her own secrets…and her life.

Purchase Links:

Audible: https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Dark-Carly-Moore-Book/dp/B083NLR3LT/

Chirp: https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/a-cry-in-the-dark-by-denise-grover-swank

My Review

I listened to the audiobook, A Cry in the Dark, by Denise Grover Swank, narrated by Shannon McManus. The narration was lovely and Miss McManus did a lovely job of portraying the diffferent characters in distinguishable ways.

The story itself is a well-crafted tale of a woman on the run getting caught up in the events of the town she is temporarily stranded in when her car breaks down. Landing a temporary job while her car is being repaired seems like a landfall of good luck at first, but when a young boy is murdered outside her motel room, landing her right in the middle of a mystery in a town filled with intrigue, Carly begins to wonder. Although she’s running to save her life, Carly is compelled to carry out the dying boy’s wishes to take a message to Seth’s grandfather, setting aside her own problems and the fact that the killers may know she was there. But with the message delivered, she finds herself embedded even deeper into the town and the mystery of who killed the boy, and it is only a matter of time before someone in this town recognizes her as tries to cash in the reward that’s offered for her. In a town full of strangers, Carly doesn’t know who she can trust or who to turn to, but she’s determined to get justice for Seth.

A thoroughly entertaining mystery which will grab a reader’s attention and not let go. I give A Cry in the Dark five quills.

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