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Even in Darkness by Lynn Hightower
3★’s
From The Book:
Joy Miller, once a famed TV evangelist, retired years before when two tragedies struck her family: the first leading her husband to suicide; the second leaving her son dead and his wife and daughter estranged from her.
She now lives a lonely, reclusive life, until a package arrives in the mail containing graphic photographs of three people she knew long ago - all brutally murdered. When Joy reads the note in the package, she knows immediately who it's from: a ghost from her past, a dangerous individual who knows far too much about the skeletons in Joy's closet. Then people start disappearing.
My Thoughts:
The best thing about this novel was that it was short. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. There just wasn’t enough “meat” on the bones of this book to keep it going.
The beginning did a great job of setting the plot but Joy’s interaction with some of the characters did nothing to bring it forward. Understanding the reasons that Joy isolated herself was easy but her reactions to her fellow “bookmates” didn’t come across with any ring of truth. Her relationship with her dog was, as our Brit friends would say, “spot on.” Actually thinking about it the dog was the best character in the book and added more to the storyline that the heroine. In a nut shell…it’s not a bad book…just not a memorable book. If you want to read Lynn Hightower at her best read The Piper.
