5 Superb Stars
Charlie Donlea erupted from the publishing gate an accomplished author, so no surprise what a riveting novel is SOME CHOOSE DARKNESS, the first in an electrifying new series, starring an unusual protagonist, forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and partner Lane Phillips, founder of the Murder Accountability Project and inventor of an algorithm to recognize and identify homicide trends. Rory has a rather unique mind-set, in some ways akin to Asperger's Syndrome, so her work is almost all mental, psychological, intuitive, or research. Herein is where the novel becomes really complicated and also profoundly disturbing. Without spoiling, I'll just say that Rory is suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into a case from 1979, and author Donlea so capably delineates the autistic genius housewife who different mental organization identified the killer plus a pattern reaching back a decade, at least. It is following her and learning how she had bern treated all her life and watching as unwittingly the noose of danger tightens around her, that I found so incredibly perturbing, unsettling, painful--and tremendously engrossing.
SOME CHOOSE DARKNESS was released in May 2019; Book Two, THE SUICIDE HOUSE, will be released in July 2020.
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