A Flicker in the Dark: A Novel
A New York Times Bestseller
“A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” —Karin Slaughter
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?
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 is eerily compelling to the very last page.
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Community Reviews
A FLICKER IN THE DARK
- [ ] Too much description of boring shit
- [ ] FOUR MGS OF XANAX?? via the phone?
- [ ] well, it is louisiana
- [ ] did her dad take the fall for her brother?
- [ ] FOUR MILLIGRAMSSSSS
- [ ] too much description of her brother
- [ ] never want to read about a tongue in a mouth again
If you're looking for a twisty, psychological thriller that's well-written and keeps you turning pages, then look no further than this knockout debut.
With several potential suspects and a self-medicating unreliable narrator, you never have it truly figured out until the very end.
This book lived up to the hype for me but don't just take my word for it; HBO has had it optioned for a series since before its release and I cannot wait to see it take shape on the screen.
I enjoyed this thriller, though it did take a while to get going. I’m thankful for the audiobook for getting me to the good stuff. Although I had the big twist figured out well ahead of time, there were still enough other twists to keep me interested. I did do quite a bit of second guessing, so I appreciate the ambiguity and mystery. As a former resident of Baton Rouge, the setting was interesting as well. Although, I do wish the author would have double checked a few things with some people from the area. We don’t have coffee shops on the River; there’s a massive levee. The driving directions the author took were a little weird. We would never call something a “snow cone.” Certainly we don’t “steam” crawfish, we boil. And I can’t say I’ve ever seen a firefly in Baton Rouge or the surrounding areas. Other than that, I enjoyed this book and thought it was an easy-to-read Louisiana-set story.
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