About the Book
Sarah and Patrick are happy. But after her mother’s death, Sarah spirals into depression and overdoses on sleeping pills. While Sarah claims it was an accident, her teenage children aren’t so sure. Patrick decides they all need a fresh start and he knows just the place, since the idyllic family home where he was raised has recently come up for sale. There’s only one catch: for the past fifteen years, it has become infamous as the “Murder House”, standing empty after a family was stabbed to death within its walls.
Patrick believes they can bring the house back to its former glory, so Sarah, uprooted from everything she knows, pours her energy into painting, gardening, and giving the rotting old structure the warmth of home. But with locals hinting that the house is haunted, the news that the murderer has been paroled, strange writing on the walls, and creepy “gifts” arriving on the doorstep at odd hours, Sarah can’t shake the feeling that something just isn’t right. Not with the house, not with the town, or even with her own, loving husband — whose stories about his perfect childhood suddenly aren’t adding up. Can Sarah uncover the secrets of the Murder House before another family is destroyed?
My Review
The Woman in the Dark was one of those books that required me to take breaks while reading. There are some favorite intense scenes in here, and some also do get quite graphic. For the most part, I did stay invested in the story and tried to put the pieces together myself, but there were a few areas that caused me some confusion or questions. The book had a fairly steady pace most of the way through, until the ending where it seemed to throw anything and everything at readers all at once, and it was a bit challenging to read without seeming skeptical on a few plot points. I don’t think this story is for everyone especially because of the abuse scenes, but it was an interesting novel and one that I did want to finish to see where the characters ended up.
3 stars
