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A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

Can you imagine being the child of a serial killer?  In Stacy Willingham’s A Flicker in the Dark Chloe Davis is a psychologist in Baton Rouge.  She became a psychologist to deal with the trauma of being the daughter of a serial killer.  She has a loving, doting fiancĂ©, Daniel.  Then one of Chloe’s patients is murdered and she’s once again haunted by her past when six teenage girls were killed.  Chloe is determined to not let the past repeat itself which makes her quite the heroine with compelling vulnerability. Her brother, Coop, disagrees with Chloe’s choice of fiancĂ© and is quite vocal about it.  Chloe’s mother is in a semiconscious state in a nursing home but has answers Chloe needs not just to the past murders but also to the current ones.  Chloe resorts to denial and abusing prescription drugs when she can’t cope.  It doesn’t help when a reporter calls because he’s doing a 20th-anniversary story of her father going to prison for the or...