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A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3.0

A good first novel, excellently plotted with believable characters. Willingham mines the fall-out of a serial killer in ways that weren’t entirely unpredictable for me, and she fell into a few distracting errors: the book’s sense of place wasn’t entirely convincing (which was a shame, because the Baton Rouge setting was what attracted me) and her main character, a psychologist with a substance abuse problem, never seemed to do any work. Still, a good start.