In the Dark
Written by Loreth Anne White
Narrated by Susan Hanfield
4/5
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About this audiobook
A secluded mountain lodge. The perfect getaway. So remote no one will ever find you.
The promise of a luxury vacation at a secluded wilderness spa has brought together eight lucky guests. But nothing is what they were led to believe. As a fierce storm barrels down and all contact with the outside is cut off, the guests fear that it’s not a getaway. It’s a trap.
Each one has a secret. Each one has something to hide. And now, as darkness closes in, they all have something to fear—including one another.
Alerted to the vanished party of strangers, homicide cop Mason Deniaud and search and rescue expert Callie Sutton must brave the brutal elements of the mountains to find them. But even Mason and Callie have no idea how precious time is. Because the clock is ticking, and one by one, the guests of Forest Shadow Lodge are being hunted. For them, surviving becomes part of a diabolical game.
Loreth Anne White
Loreth Anne White is a double RITA nominee, an RT Reviewers' Choice award winner for romantic suspense, and a double Daphne Du Maurier finalist. She hails from southern Africa, but now lives in a ski resort in the moody Coast Mountain range. When she's not writing you will find her skiing, biking or hiking with her Black Dog, and generally trying to avoid the bears.
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Readers find this title to be a mixed bag. Some reviewers felt that the book had too many characters without enough backstory and that the twist fell flat. They also found the jumping timeline to be distracting. However, other reviewers loved the plot, the survival style, and the classic who-dun-it theme. They compared the author's style to Agatha Christie and found the book engaging and enjoyable. Some reviewers mentioned that the narrator's pronunciation of certain words was distracting. Overall, the book is described as a riveting tale with a guessing game of the murderer's identity. Some reviewers expressed interest in reading more books featuring the main characters.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great locked room mystery feel. Great plot line with a good ending that isn't obvious.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A rather emotional novel and a story which is great for a quick read. Too many characters with not enough backstory and the twist fell rather flat. The incessant jumping timeline is also distracting from the flow and that completely hampers the creation of a sense of tension. Such a great opportunity, but not sufficiently executed.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this locked room-style mystery. It kept me guessing and engaged the whole time. A note on the audiobook: the reader sounds a bit like Siri, particularly when she pronounces 'again' and 'been', which I found pretty distracting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book but could have used more character development. Also, the way the narrator says "been", "again", and "against" was almost annoying enough for.me to stop reading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved the plot, survival style, and classic who-dun-it theme of this read. White's style for this read correlated in many ways to Agatha Christie. It's well worth the time invested as I found much enjoyment in reading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A group of business people receive exclusive invitations to a soon-to-be-opened remote resort in British Columbia. Except when they arrive, they’ve been duped...all they find is deserted lodge. The seaplane is cut lose and then, following the poem of 9 little Indians, the guests are being murdered. Is the killer hiding in the lodge or is he/she among the guests? The story is told from the POV of the guests at the lodge and that of the Rescue Team, including a newly assigned RCMP officer. Riveting tale.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I switched who I thought was the murderer several times and still didn't get it totally correct, which I actually like and appreciate. I really enjoyed this book and would like to read more about Mason and Callie in the future, too
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Dark
4 Stars
Nine little liars thought they'd escaped...
Nine seemingly unconnected people are lured to a remote location in the Canadian wilderness with the promise of a stay at a luxury resort. But it soon becomes clear that the guests are not strangers and they each have a secret that could get them killed.
The first half of the book is a completely gripping retelling of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None ... with compelling characters and motivations. Unfortunately, the second half of the book is overly drawn out with excessive repetition of action and dialogue.
The narrative is presented via the alternating perspectives of the victims as well as those of the RCMP Sergeant and SAR team leader deployed to locate the missing lodge party. While this works well in the beginning, it ultimately results in the aforementioned redundancies.
The inclusion of the relationship between Mason, the cop, and Callie, the SAR leader, adds a touch of romance to the storyline. Their characters are particularly engaging and their backstories are simply heartbreaking. It is impossible not to feel for them and hope they ultimately find peace.
Overall, a good mystery, but the writing could have been tighter and more concise. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Outstanding story!
Like Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians/ Then there were none, on steroids. And yes the author references this book repeatedly so it is not a cheap imitation. In a lot of ways this story is better!
The author does an outstanding job of slowing paying out the story.
The characters slow descent into paranoid behavior and madness.
The author also does an outstanding job of describing the settings, how cold,damp, uncomfortable and it is in the woods. How creepy it is in the lodge.
This is a fantastic book to read this winter
If you like Jane Harper books you will love this. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow. Intensely suspenseful and thoroughly engaging, this book grabbed me from the first page. A whodunit staged in a decrepit lodge located deep in the rugged terrain of the Canadian wilderness, this book kept me guessing who did what to whom until the very end. Superb! Loved it! I highly recommend this one to all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eight lucky guests have been promised a vacation at a fabulous spa located in the wilderness. After they arrive it soon becomes obvious that they were lured there under false pretenses. And now they must worry about their lives because it looks like somebody wants to pick them off, one by one. The story alternates between the past in which the murders are taking place as well as the present when we find out someone is alive and homicide cop Mason Deniaud and search and rescue expert Callie Sutton are trying to figure out what happened. The author gives interesting backstories to both Mason and Callie making them the most developed characters in the book. It’s bit tricky at first to keep track of all the guests as the story bounces around from each of the characters but because the list keeps getting shorter as more them die it does become easier t keep the characters straight. I read a lot of mysteries and I have to say that I was very impressed with this one. This is not a romance/suspense thriller. This is thriller all the way and should appeal to all fans of the genre.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the Dark by author Loreth Anne White is advertised as an homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and I admit I was rather doubtful as to whether this was a tribute or would turn into a plot ripoff. With my skepticism firmly in place I started the read and it didn’t take too many pages before I was fully absorbed by this murder mystery.Nine people are invited to a new wilderness lodge in a remote, inaccessible area of British Columbia, they are all attending this function as they are business owners who want to nail down contracts for their services. These services cover a wide area that include security, cleaning, catering, and others, all of which a new lodge would need. They are being flown into the wilderness by a pilot who is trying to pick up the contract for bringing guests into this inaccessible place. On the morning they are to leave, they find that one of their members has fallen ill and will not be attending. After they take off, this ill person dies, making him the first victim.After arriving at their destination, it soon becomes clear that there is something very strange going on, someone is out for revenge and intends to make each of the remaining eight pay. We follow two story lines, both the ongoing chaos at the lodge, and, a week later, the rescue party lead by RCMP investigator, Mason Deniaud and Callie Sutton, head of the local Search and Rescue Team. I was fully engaged by this story. The fluid timeline allows the reader to experience first hand the horror as it unfolds at the lodge and also enables them to be part of the rescue team a week later. In the Dark is a fun, atmospheric thriller with multiple narrators, not all of which are totally trustworthy and I definitely felt it gave honors to Ms. Christie’s original work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Clever plot using as a starting point Agatha Christie's "Ten little Indians" which is referenced in the plot. A group of eager would-be contractors for a new high-end tourist attraction in remote British Columbia, take a float plane trip to see what they believe will be a lucrative business prospect. However, it turns out that not only are they all hiding secrets they would like to remain hidden, but they are all connected to each other in some way from their past. Of course the past always has a habit of catching up with you, but it is left to newly arrived RCMP sergeant, Mason and Callie, a local search and rescue volunteer to try to figure what has happened to the party. As someone familiar with BC and having travelled by float plane myself, I enjoyed the descriptions of the area where the plot unfolds and its links to Vancouver and Burnaby, places I know.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I quite enjoyed this book - probably more than I expected to as I hadn't heard anything about it. It was well-written, and by that I mean I didn't find myself getting annoyed with the language or plot - which happens more then I like to admit. It was an interesting plot, and kept me guessing right up to the end.