Disclaimer: An eARC was provided via Harper Collins Internationalin exchange for an honest review. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

This was an intriguing mystery from a new to me author – that I read through the audio book format and I just couldn’t stop myself from listening to the book until the very end.

One morning, Augusta aka Gus receives a phone call from her great grandmother’s nurse informing her that she has passed away; it doesn’t take much time for her to decide to leave her abusive and controlling boyfriend behind and move back to the run down old house and an old dog, Levi – where she went to live at the age of eight, when her mother died in a car accident.

While she goes through her great grandmother’s house; all the while reminiscing about her childhood and her upbringing, she finds some clues in case files belonging to her Police Detective mother and gets sucked into following them, to solve the case that her mother seems to have been obsessed with, right till the end of her life.

Dark August is a slow burn thriller – with whole lot of information slowly being revealed, it is the protagonist, Gus who shines all the way through. A resourceful, intelligent and stubborn young girl of 20, Gus seems to have an instinct of being able to find the loose threads that no one seems to have looked for, but taking everything that happened, at first 12 years ago and then 5 years before at face value.

With a predictable plotline – (it was for me, I called the big twist that came, quite easily!) – it is Gus who shines through; who at first came across a bitter, whining young girl to the self assured, and strong independent woman she becomes at the end of the book – shows EXACTLY how a character growth should take place in a book.

I would recommend this book just for the wonderful growth Gus showed throughout the book; but also for the lovers of a slow burn thriller that you just would like to get lost on a rainy day!



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