After reading a book that squashed my reading mojo I was delighted to be gripped from the start by A Flicker in The Dark. I love a good serial killer and this one delivered in spades (pardon the pun). Chloe believes she has moved on after her father was convicted of the murders of young, local girls when she was thirteen but then it starts happening again. Is there a copycat and is Chloe herself at risk?!

Fast paced read which doesn't let you up for air and you'll suspect EVERYONE. Highly recommend.

This was a great read. Very easy to read with some good twists and turns. Great characters and a fab storyline. What a great debut! Will definitely be looking out for more from this author. Definitely recommend.

Thank you Netgalley.

Pacey thriller making for page-turning reading, but the characters lacked any real depth and our main character completely lacks any personality which ultimately made this thriller fall flat for me. Enjoyable enough, but formulaic and forgettable.

A Flicker in the Dark follows Chloe Davis, the daughter of a serial killer, 20 years after the murders took place. She’s now a psychologist, with her own practice and about to be married. She’s still dealing with the trauma and consequences of the murders when similar murders start happening all over again.. could they be connected to her father?

This was an anticipated read for me, as a true crime fan it sounded right up my street. I enjoyed the beginning but by the middle it fell off a little bit for me. It was quite slow paced for a thriller and chloe was quite an annoying unreliable narrator at times. I guessed most of the twists so that was a little disappointing for me.

Overall it was just okay for me, not bad but not amazing either. I would read this author again because I think she has potential and like I said it wasn’t a bad book at all, I just expected a little more from it.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

If you are looking for a properly spooky, psychological novel, then look no further! I found the story to be quite interesting and I was keen to find out more about what drove Chloe's dad to do what he did, and also why it was happening again.

Reverting read from this first time author. Psychologist Chloe seems to have it all: the job, the house, the fiancé. But she’s carrying with her a stain. When she was 12 her father was convicted of killing several young girls. . Two decades on and another girl goes missing. . . And another. And they’re linked to Chloe. What do her brother and finance have to do with this and why is a journalist pursuing her? Well written, tightly plotted debut. Throughly enjoyed it.

A slow burn chiller thriller. When Chloe Davis was aged 12 she discovered her father was a serial killer, convicted for murdering six teenage girls.. Twenty years on, Chloe now a psychologist suspects a copycat is on the loose and they want her to know it. A gripping read.

Chloe Davis is a young professional who has grown up after the shocking discovery her father was a serial killer. Now on the anniversary of the murders there are new fresh crimes terrifying the local community. Chloe is a link but she has her own problems, doubts and suspicions.
As she works to uncover how the new crimes are related to the originals as well as learn who she can trust the twists and turns come through. Not all of these twists are shocking or even that surprising and there are a lot of hints along the way but there was an element of doubt for as to whether I could even trust Chloe's truth.
I enjoyed the way Stacy Willingham had written this book and whilst it may not have shocked me entirely with the outcome I did enjoy that I was always second guessing what was happening as were the detectives because you just couldn't wholly trust Chloe's version.

I figured out what was going on very quickly - there were a lot of clues! So the twist wasn’t really a twist for me. I also thought that, on the whole, this wasn’t a very original or memorable story. But it was, nevertheless, an entertaining read.

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham is an intriguing story about a serial killer and the young child, Chloe Davis, who uncovers who is the serial killer who has killed six teenage girls. Twenty years later Chloe is a psychologist working in private practise in Baton Rouge, when teenage girls again go missing.
At times the story is longer and more drawn out than is needed but the last section of the book is worth reading through too.
Highly recommended.

I received an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Collins and the author Stacy Willingham.
Found this one quite disappointing I'm afraid. The whole story was just so predictable and unsatisfying.
How can a mystery with multiple murders move so slowly? Wasn't gripped, wasn't surprised at the end, and painfully frustrating one-dimensional characters so can only give it 2 stars.

Excellent read, compulsive and intriguing. Slight twist on the usual crime story. Well written and looking forward to her next book.

What a brilliant book - a thoroughly good story beautifully written. Difficult to define genre - missing girls, murders, family secrets, love, investigation- all told with a heart. Wonderful believable characters and superb descriptive prose. I have never been to the deep south of America but now feel like I know it. So many twists and turns in the story that keep the reader guessing. Highly recommended.

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham was a good read. Fairly easy to predict the true story but the questionable credibility of the narrator is distracting. Can we trust her perceptions and deductions when she self medicates regularly and generously on alcohol and pills? Her profession and career as an apparently successful psychologist is hard to believe in light of her own apparent paranoia, actual behaviours and poor decision making. Nonetheless the plot is decent and twisty with lots of revelations at the end. Four stars

A riveting, thrilling and absorbing story. This had everything you want from a thriller and even though i guessed the twist the plot was so engaging it didn't matter. There were so many little interweaving threads that you were invested in, figuring one out didn't detract from the enjoyment. I can't wait to see what this author writes next.

Really enjoyable read with enough twists to keep the pages turner.
Good characters who developed well but perhaps a little slowly.

3.5/5

I enjoyed the pacing of this book. I thought I’d guessed the plot about 40% of the way in but I was wrong, which I enjoyed! I loved how much it kept me guessing! Some of the writing was a bit repetitive, but overall it was great and kept me hooked!

Brilliant twisty little thriller had me hooked from page one and the ending was not to be missed, will look out for more from the author!

𝘼 𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙗𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙝𝙖𝙢

Typical me ended up with far too many February-published ARC's to get through in January, that I'm still working my way through the backlist - this being one of them. I've seen very mixed reviews for this, but the 'daughter of a serial killer' premise was super intriguing, and this was a unique perspective for a thriller - it’s not often you see the exploration of the fallout on the families in crime thrillers.

Full of moral dilemmas, secrets, and suspense, this was a great debut novel. I found this to be initially pretty slow paced and on the predictable side - I guessed the big twist pretty early on, but the twists and turns were still solid. Perspectives switched between Chloe’s present actions and past memories, and she was a completely unreliable and impulsive narrator, unable to trust her own recollection of events. The Louisina/Baton Rouge setting was atmospheric and well developed and despite not being as knock-out as id expected, this was still an enjoyable read.

𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ (3/5)

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 + 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐀𝐑𝐂!

I enjoyed this, bit of a slow start, but I’m glad that I preserved.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.