-The Undertaker’s Daughter series- Book 3
Some secrets are worth dying for.
Dr. Rowan Dupont is back in her hometown of Winchester, Tennessee. But for the last ten months she hasn’t been staying in a hotel or cottage, but rather her family’s large Victorian funeral home.
Dupont knows it’s time for the mysterious deaths of people around her to be solved and come to an end. But the deeper she searches the more family secrets she uncovers.
Living with Billy Brannigan, who is now Police Chief, can bring her some comfort. But will their friendship and love be enough to keep her safe?
Details
- Title: The Darkness We Hide
- Author: Debra Webb
- Publisher: MIRA; Original edition
- Publication Date: March 31, 2020
- Pages: 352
My Thoughts
Only after I started reading did I realize this was the third book in a series. Sometimes that can work, and at other times it’s awfully hard to jump into the middle, or in this case end, of a series.
It felt like the first quarter of the book was spent trying to catch the reader up on needed information. So, for me, it felt like an overload of information without the emotion that usually comes with a story.
For that reason, I highly recommend that these books be read in order. Otherwise, it makes it awfully hard to enjoy The Darkness We Hide.
It does get better and was able to gradually draw me in, but it takes too long for that to happen.
What Concerned Me
This is a book that really needs to be read as part of the series. It just didn’t work for me as a standalone.
Conclusion
The writing felt good and the sentences flowed in an easy-to-read style.
About the Author
Debra’s love of storytelling goes back to her childhood when, at the age of nine, her mother bought her an old typewriter in a tag sale. Born in Alabama, Debra grew up on a farm. She spent every available hour exploring the world around her and creating her stories. She wrote her first story at age nine and her first romance at thirteen. It wasn’t until she spent three years working for the Commanding General of the US Army in Berlin behind the Iron Curtain and a five-year stint in NASA’s Shuttle Program that she realized her true calling. A collision course between suspense and romance was set. Since then she has expanded her work into some of the darkest places the human psyche dares to go. Click to visit Debra’s website.
