A review by annegoodreads
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

3.5

Chloe Davis is a psychologist in Baton Rouge.  She became a psychologist to deal with the trauma of being the daughter of a serial killer.  She has a loving, doting fiancé, Daniel.  Then one of Chloe’s patients is murdered and she’s once again haunted by her past when six teenage girls were killed.  Chloe is determined to not let the past repeat itself which makes her quite the heroine with compelling vulnerability. Her brother, Coop, disagrees with Chloe’s choice of fiancé and is quite vocal about it.  Chloe’s mother is in a semiconscious state in a nursing home but has answers Chloe needs not just to the past murders but also to the current ones.  Chloe resorts to denial and abusing prescription drugs when she can’t cope.  It doesn’t help when a reporter calls because he’s doing a 20th-anniversary story of her father going to prison for the original murders.  I guessed the ending pretty early in the book so I didn’t see this as any big twisty book.  There were also way too many times when the red herrings were repeated.  I did love the small Louisiana town feel with the Crawfish festivities. I also loved the realistic way in which the detective dealt with Chloe and her paranoia.  Overall this is a good read.