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Is Chloe paranoid and seeing connections where there aren't any, or is she dangerously close to the truth? Chloe is your classic unreliable narrator, often referencing her difficulty separating what's real from what isn't, which isn't helped by her pharmaceutical habits. She's paranoid, convinced that these new victims are someone specifically toying with her, setting her on her own amateur investigative path to find who's copying her imprisoned father's past actions, since virtually no one else believes her suspicions.
Cooper admits to all the killings, plus one more (Tara King) who was the actual first girl. It turns out their father found all the jewelry hidden under his floorboards but Cooper convinced him not to say anything. However, Chloe ended up finding it in the closet. Chloe also realizes her father must have told her mother the truth before he was arrested, and her mother kept the secret but it caused her to unravel. As for Tyler, he was just a lonely person who Cooper convinced to help in his plans. Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press/ Minotaur Books for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts. And, as much as I couldn't stand the narrator most of the time, I also felt a...kinship with her in some ways... THIS BOOK IS AN INCREDIBLE THRILLER WITH A PSYCHOPATH OR TWO, A SERIAL KILLER AND AN UNRELIABLE NARRATOR!!Sometimes eerily descriptive: “It’s as if the answers have been in front of me all along--dancing, just out of reach. Twirling . . .like that ballerina, chipped and pink, spinning to the rhythm of delicate chimes.” Stacy Willingham tells us the story of Chloe Davis, a thirty-two-year-old psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge. Her father was arrested for killing six young girls when she was twelve. Her father is in prison now, and the history is repeating now as many girls start disappearing just like what happened twenty years ago. Who is behind the disappearance of these girls? Are the two events interconnected? The author tries to answer these questions through this book convincingly. Chloe Davis has managed to move on from her past, with mixed results. When she was twelve, six girls went missing in her small town...only to be found dead. The culprit? Her loving father. Charged and convicted as a serial killer, he went to prison to serve a life sentence. Chloe and her family never fully recovered from the repercussions. Is there a copy cat killer imitating her father’s method or was his father convicted to lifetime prison sentence for the crime he didn’t convict! Chloe Davis has lived in the shadow of fear for a long time. When she was twelve years ago, six teenage girls disappeared in town, one right after another. The nightmare finally ended when her own father confessed to the killings, upending her childhood and leaving her family in ruins. Now twenty years later, girls are going missing again. And Chloe can't help but feel there is a link between what's happening now and what happened so long ago.
This is a Psychological Thriller that will keep you guessing. I cannot believe this is a debut book because it was so good. I was pulled it to this story right for the beginning, and I did not want to put it down. This book kept me guessing, and it kept having me changing mine mind on who did it. The main character of this book was not lovable, but she made me root for her by the end. The ending of this book was so great, but I also loved the beginning of this book. If you love a book with a ton of suspense and keeps you on your toes then this is the book for you. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Minotaur Books) or author (Stacy Willingham) via NetGalley, so I can give an honest review about how I feel about this book. I want to send a big Thank you to them for that. years later, her life begins to unravel when local teens start to go missing, and Chloe starts to suspect someone around her may be involved.Chloe Davis is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and engaged to Daniel. What haunts her in the last twenty years is her family's past. At twelve, her father was arrested for multiple missing girls in their small town of Beaux Bridge. After her father's confession, and has gone to prison, the family starts to fall apart Chole, her brother Cooper, and their mother eventually ends up in a care facility.
Skip forward to today, Chloe is now a psychologist with a home and private practice in Baton Rouge, planning her upcoming wedding to perfect, supportive Daniel, and helping over-protective Cooper take turns visiting their mother, Mona, in an assisted living facility - a situation necessitated by Mona's mental and physical trauma after her husband was taken away. To be fair, this type of protagonist pops up a lot in mystery-thrillers, and I never really like it. So, I realize my opinion on this is fairly subjective and perhaps you won’t mind it so much. The pattern of the current crimes isn't just similar to that of her father's, it's identical. Is there a copycat working in Baton Rouge? I would say the main strong points of this book are the compelling premise and a mostly solidly plotted-out mystery. The killer is pretty guessable, but there’s also enough other suspects and possibilities to keep you on your toes. I think it did a good job of planting clues while offering up enough snarls in the plot to make it a little less obvious. Some of the smaller details make less sense than I’d ideally like, but those were mostly more minor aspects of the story.
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Chloe Davis is a damaged woman. She was only 12 years old when her father was convicted as a serial killer!! The girls murdered were girls she knew, girls from her small town. Chloe had found damaging evidence. Her father is in prison. People were suspicious of her Mom, that she possibly knew something she didn't reveal. It wasn't a good situation. Traumatic to say the least. There’s always that shred of doubt, that sliver of hope. But false hope is worse than no hope at all.” There are many ways to find out whether a person is emotionally unstable. The author is sharing a few of them in this book.
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