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.

I’d like to thank NetGalley and Harper Collins UK for approving me for an ARC of this book.

This was a slow burn psychological thriller that had my questioning everyone from the start. The story is told entirely from Chloe’s POV and the chapters alternate between current events and Chloe filling us in on the murders committed by her father. I really liked the back and forth and thought it was a great way to tell the story.

When teenage girls start to go missing again things seem all too familiar for Chloe. Could these murders really be happening again? Are they connected to Chloe? These and many more questions were running through my head as the story progressed.

It was very clear that Chloe still had a lot of trauma after her dad was imprisoned. A cocktail of alcohol and prescription meds seem to get her through her days and whilst she knows this won’t fix anything she can’t seem to stop. The supporting characters were very interesting to me and well developed. Daniel and Copper’s mutual dislike for each other certainly through a spanner in the works and I did like how the author had us questioning both the men’s characters at several points.

I did have an incline as to where this one was heading and had lined up my top two suspects. I still enjoyed the listen though and the different twists and turns along the way. This was a solid thriller that had all the chills and suspense you would hope for.

1) This Book had a good premise but nothing much after that;
2) A quite slow and a rather predictable read for my liking;
3) I tend to like unreliable narrators but this one just didn’t do it for me. Maybe because she was just too stupid? In the most annoying way possible!
4) All in all, it was an ok read.
5) Would recommend to people who don't mind an extremely stupid and unreliable narrator.

Every male character in this book was a suspect. I didn’t trust anyone, even Chloe. She is unreliable and not very likeable. The ending took me by surprise, in a very good way!

‘A flicker in the dark’ is told from the perspective of Chloe Davis, whose father was convicted of the murder of six teenage girls when she was a child. But now twenty years on, in the same town more young women have been targeted and Chloe is questioning her father’s guilt. Willingham has constructed an intriguing, unreliable narrator for this story and although the plot is dark and twisty, personally for me the pace was too slow. I did enjoy the descriptive nature of the writing style with some really great details maintaining the nervous atmosphere throughout.
I think if you can stick with the introspective style for the majority of the novel, the last part definitely makes up for a slower pace for the first half. As far as psychological thrillers go I really enjoyed this one for all of its twists and shock ending.

This book was so much fun. I loved the premise and the unreliable narrator was perfect. It did take some time for me to be able to follow the switch in flashbacks to present day, but it was good to see the main character flashing back and forth in her head.
The ending was alright, I could see it coming but I still enjoyed it! I will buy a physical copy of this book!

A Flicker in the Dark got out of the blocks really well. I was hooked from the first few chapters. The premise of the story was brilliant. A psychologist, Chloe, whose dad was a serial killer finds one of her clients killed...she doesn't trust people, she doesn't believe people so when she questions those around her, Chloe's world starts spinning out of control..

My attention towards this title waned a bit towards the middle and I thought I had guessed the plot, but the twists and turns kept my attention and I finished the book, although I wasn't as hooked towards the end as I had been at the beginning.

Chloe is a strange character, she doesn't trust, so neither do you as the reader. Chloe doubts herself, so you do too as the reader. She's not a greatly likable character but I was interested to see where the plot twists would lead.

A good twisty thriller with a medium-slow pace.

An interesting narrator chosen for this story. Chloe Davis has spent her life avoiding being in the limelight as she is the daughter of a serial killer. She is soon to be married to her somewhat controlling partner when similar murders start up again. Chloe is an unlikely psychologist as all these years later she is still dealing with her own traumas. This is quite a slow burner which suddenly picks up pace quite far into the book.
Three and a half stars ... I will be interested to read more by this author.
Many thanks to Netgalley/Stacy Willingham/HarperCollins UK for a digital copy of this title. All opinions expressed are my own.