IN THE DARK by Brian Freeman ***

About solving an old murder/cold case sort of thing with all the old timers present and accounted for. Rehash the old teenager crap til you find a killer. If you're not really slow you can figure out the killer near the middle or so once you get the relationships and hints in place.

I was reading along just fine trying to keep the past, the present, the friends, the boyfriends all the relationships/first, last names in line when I got stymied by this writer Tish pretending she's someone else (Cindy) in her "story", first person and it's supposed to be about a murder she's 'investigating'. So that disarmed me there. I didn't like that she was Cindy in the story. For awhile I thought it was old found writing of Cindy's. Confusing. Not only that but the writer finally tells you about 3/4 way thru the book it's Tish. Not helpful.

Now I'm reading about 1977 (the past), the murder of Cindy's sister, Laura, and suddenly in the middle of this -one of the teenagers involved with the dead girls sister is a cop? or is invited by the cop to help? He's in high school, screwing his new girlfriend (Cindy) who ends up his wife but in the meantime without warning at like 18 he's invited to a murder investigation of one of his school mates? To question one of his school mates? WTF??? This part here is very puzzling as to why it even exists aside from spinning your head around like Linda Blair. DELETE. More writers need to use the delete key. IDIOTS.

So once you ignore the stupid shit it's not too horrid. There is suspense, and the basic writing is fairly understandable. Not a fan but someone else might enjoy it.