The Mystery Starts Here

The story in Lisa Unger’s latest book, Darkness, My Old Friend, takes place in the small town of The Hollows in upstate New York and follows several characters, pulling the reader along to the conclusion of the book. Jones Cooper forced to retire from The Hollows police department is struggling to cope with his new status with too much time on his hands. Michael Holt grew up in The Hollows and recently returned. He’s been haunted all his life by the disappearance of his mother years ago, and has come back to try and solve the mystery of her desertion. Teenager Willow Graves moved from Manhattan six month earlier with her novelist mother after a bitter divorce.

The stories of these three characters comes together to form the basis of this suspenseful novel. A lot of questions surround exactly what happened on the night of Michael’s mother, Marla, disappearance and Jones gets drawn into the intrigue. Enough other characters and storylines are woven throughout to add interest for the reader and create additional questions that need to be resolved.

The characters in this novel are interesting and they just keep showing up in this book, one by one, chapter by chapter. The writing is so beautiful, the plot so exciting, that it doesn’t matter that you can’t see how all of the characters and storylines are related to each other. It all comes together and in the end, people are who they were all along, but changed by the events, irretrievably changed, some for the better.

If you haven’t read a book by Lisa Unger and love mysteries or medium to light thrillers, this is the author for you. Her stories and characters have such depth. Nothing is ever as it seems at first.

Like your mysteries with some giggles? You might want to try either of my novels, Roman Circus or The Colors of Death. Both of the light mysteries are filled with humor and just a hint of romance.

Roman Circus – www.nobleromance.com

The Colors of Death – www.writewordsinc.com