Fear the Darkness
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3.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Retirement is a bitch. Between ravine walks with her pugs and liquid lunches with her new friend Mallory, ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn can’t stop working, and she’s immediately drawn to the suspicious death of a local teen that may have chilling consequences for her own family.
A fully-clothed fourteen-year-old boy is found drowned in a swimming pool. None of his friends is talking, and Brigid fears the boy’s death could be the first of many. Enter Brigid’s clever but emotionally damaged niece Gemma Kate. Gemma Kate comes to live with her aunt Brigid following the death of her mother and immediately connects with a local boy who knew the drowned teen. Gemma Kate’s arrival also coincides with a series of ghastly poisonings.
As she tries to get to the bottom of a series of allegedly accidental deaths and increasingly gruesome occurrences at home, Brigid realizes that maybe this time she’s let the darkness inside the only place she ever felt safe. Sometimes death is closer than you think.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For someone who still conducts threat assessments at functions as seemingly innocuous as a Tucson, Ariz., humane society fundraiser, retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn has gone dangerously soft in other respects as she discovers when it's almost too late in Edgar-finalist Masterman's disappointingly wan follow-up to her electrifying 2013 debut, Rage Against the Dying. Then again, it's tough for Brigid to be at the top of her game once she begins to experience increasingly alarming symptoms, including chronic nausea, anxiety, and hallucinations, after her teenage niece, Gemma-Kate, whose mother has recently died of MS, moves in with her and husband Carlo to establish in-state residency for the University of Arizona. Given the timing, as well as the girl's glaring lack of empathy but keen interest in toxicology, Brigid starts wondering whether she's let a psychopath into her little slice of long-overdue domestic bliss. Overly talky with too many heavy-handed efforts at misdirection, this novel lets down both Masterman's kick-ass heroine and her many fans.
Customer Reviews
Fear the Darkness
Not as good as her first book, but I still enjoyed it. I look forward to reading the next one...