Cry Darkness

November 1, 2017
In this suspenseful and disturbing page-turner, Detective Inspector David Vogel and his team face a genuinely bizarre case. Teenager Melanie Cooke is found brutally attacked and strangled to death in a dark alley near Bristol's red-light district, and all signs point to the killer being Melanie's father. Vogel's gut, however, tells him that something's wrong with this scenario. He's soon proven right when two more seemingly unrelated murders take place, but the same DNA found on Melanie's body is found on the latest victims. The link between the three seemingly disparate victimsa Thai woman who came to England to marry a man she met online, a gay college student, and teenager Melanieis puzzling, but even after Vogel connects the dots, there is one more horrifying and completely unexpected twist, which throws everything into pandemonium. Fully fleshed characters, a masterfully constructed plot, and a shock ending make for a gripping read.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)