A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

Within a few months, her father is arrested as the serial killer. When Chloe was 12, 6 teen girls went missing. If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (4 / 5) “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that, in the process, he does not become a monster. 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.Ĭheck Goodreads to see the book’s ratings. 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. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.

From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career.

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham