"A deranged psychic has a whole town fearing the dark."
Fear the Dark
By: Kay Hooper
Genres: Suspense | Romance Suspense | Paranormal Mystery
Posted: October 20, 2015
Agents Lucas and Samantha Jordan along with new partners Dante Swann and Robbie Hodge arrive to help. But even with this expertise in the unknown the missing person case turns into something more deadly. Something that might change all of them forever.
FEAR THE DARK continues author Kay Hooper's Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novels. I have always found this series very intriguing with strong characters, but with just the right amount of edgy and spooky to get the heart pounding. FEAR THE DARK certainly fits right along those lines. This might be book sixteen in the series, but any new reader will find it is a stand alone. This author brings in characters from past sto storylines but will bring the readers up to speed on the situation.
I have to admit that it did drag in a few spots with a little too much discussion of the various psychic abilities. I was looking for a little more action than there was. It did have the police procedures, computer searches, searches, checking security camera feed, looking through files; all the common place actions that I have always found fascinating. I also enjoyed trying to figure out the bad guy before the others but alas ... I am no psychic. The ending did have a totally unexpected twist that seems to come out of nowhere and might have been just a tad abrupt.
Don't know where Ms. Hooper comes up with her storylines, characters or the frightening situations, but I sure hope she keeps doing whatever she does because I will be in line to read them. FEAR THE DARK will go on my TRA (to read again) shelf while I wait for more.
Book Summary
In this newest Bishop / Special Crimes Unit novel, an SCU team investigates a troubling string of disappearances. But how do you find someone who has vanished without a trace?
Something strange is happening in the small mountain town of Serenity, Tennessee. People going on routine errands never reach their destination. It’s as if they simply disappear. Over the past few weeks, it’s happened to five men and women—and now a child.
The local police chief Jonah Riggs calls the FBI, and a team from the Special Crimes Unit is immediately sent in. Agents Lucas and Samantha Jordan, partners in work and in life, have very different abilities. Samantha is a powerful clairvoyant and Lucas possesses a unique ability to find the lost or abducted. With them are new partners Dante Swann, a medium, and Robbie Hodge, a telepath.
The town is already on the edge of panic, but the mysterious events take a sinister turn when a body unrelated to the missing persons case surfaces, a citizen murdered under the noses of the police and FBI agents. Now, the team’s hunt for the lost has turned into something very personal for all of them … and very dangerous.
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by: Kay Hooper
Berkley
November 1, 2015
On Sale: October 20, 2015
Featuring: Samantha Jordan; Lucas Jordan; Dante Swann
288 pages
ISBN: 0425280721
EAN: 9780425280720
Kindle: B00SI02F6G
Hardcover / e-Book