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A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham

Start date: March 1, 2022

Finish date: March 31, 2022

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Why we're reading this: Chosen by members as our group BotM for March 2022.
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What Members Thought

Sep 26, 2024 Gwen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Mystery/thriller. Chloe Davis was 12 years old when her dad was arrested and put in prison for the murder of 6 teenage girls. 20 years later, Chloe has (sort of) turned her life around; she has a successful psychology practice and is engaged to be married to a wonderful man. But then teenage girls start to go missing again. What's going on?

No spoilers here but I did guess where this one was going to go pretty early on in the book. There were some twists and turns but in the end, I was right and ...more

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Aug 03, 2022 Kelli V Spann rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, mystery-crime, mystery-psychopath, botmc

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that, in the process, he does not become a monster. If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

What did I just read?!

This is a tops turvy roller coaster of a ride. You have Chloe, a psychologist who self-medicates and whose father was a serial killer, currently serving time for killing six teenage girls. Chloe is stuck in the past and feels too much, while her older brother has zero emotions. It does lag somewhat, at tim ...more

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May 22, 2022 Karen D rated it it was amazing

Shelves: thrillers, mystery, family, suspense, audiobook, crime, surprise-twist, destructive-friendships, domestic-problems, detective

I really liked this thriller, and it worked really well as an audio! 4.5 stars
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Synopsis: When Chloe Davis was 12, her father was arrested for abducting and killing six teen girls over the course of the summer. Twenty years later, although her father is still in prison, teen girls are again being abducted and killed, in a pattern that is eerily familiar.
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This was really exciting, and I really liked the way it interspersed flashbacks to Chloe's childhood and how the case developed around the orig ...more

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Mar 07, 2022 Susan rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, family-relationships, own-in-book-format, fiction, psychology, suspense, thriller, psychological-thriller, crime, read-in-2022

So, so good! I did not see the twist coming, which is frankly par for the course for me, but that’s why I enjoy thrillers so much. I can’t say that I particularly liked the characters, but the setting and the story were excellent.

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