Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A crime thriller set in Colorado where a murderer is targeting entire families in their homes…
Although a stand alone novel, this is the fifth in the Darby series.
Fear the Dark
What you need to know before your trail
A serial killer with a penchant for families seems to be stalking Colorado and both police and the FBI are struggling with their investigation. the time has come to bring in Darby McCormick who is an expert in forensics and serial killers hoping she might be able to help.
However Darby is not going to get a breakthrough that easily as the killer always seems to be just one step ahead. As her investigations continue however, the community appears to be a broken one, with a dark heart at its core and is a town hiding secrets. And al the while the killer seems to be watching her..
Travel Guide
Landing in Castle Rock on a helipad is a fine way for the lead character to quite literally land in her new surroundings and this is the way we see Darby arrive in Fear the Dark.
Heading off to Red Hill, it’’s just as well its fictional for the landscape is said to be something akin to a Steven King movie
The place is like….The Shining? The Movie not the TV mini-seres thing
You remember the scene that opened the movie? That aerial shot of Jack Nicholson’s shitty VW chugging its way across a road that snakes through an immense forest, tall pines stretching for miles in every direction? That’s what Red Hill reminds me of. Nothing there except woods and snow – lots of snow.’
And a psychopath who’s killed four families in a year.
Talk about setting the scene!
This is a unique landscape – an old mining town and an un-incorporated one at that meaning there’s no mayor or city council. Turns out Coop also explains to Darby that rigor mortis is setting in….no wonder its police force are needing help with a sadistic killer.
Even the first murder scene occurs at Salem End Road and the crime scene is very different to what Darby used to deal with in Boston. Maybe that thin air that the altitude will give her, will make things even worse.
Even the crime scene map consists of a cork board with a pin for each of the murder victims.
They do thing differently here in Red Hill. There is something not quite right in this town.
It’s a small town, they’re weary of outsiders
Where Next?
