Award-winning author Carrie Stuart Parks combines her expertise as a forensic artist with her talent for crafting a gripping story in this page-turning web of light and shadow.
A woman off the grid.
Darby Graham thinks she’s on a much-needed vacation in remote Idaho to relax. But before she even arrives at the ranch, an earthquake strikes. Then a barn on the edge of town is engulfed in flames and strange problems at the ranch begin to escalate, and Darby finds herself immersed in a chilling mystery.
A town on fire.
More fires erupt around town, and a serial arsonist sends taunting letters to the press after each. As a forensic linguist, this is Darby’s area of expertise . . . but the scars her work has caused her are also the reason she’s trying to escape her life.
A growing darkness.
As the shadows continue moving in, pieces of the town around her come into sharper focus. To make it out alive, Darby must decide if she can trust the one man who sees her clearly.
Praise for Woman in Shadow:
“Unique, witty, and hilarious, Carrie’s voice shines throughout Woman in Shadow. The perfect mix of intrigue, mystery and danger, this is most definitely a book for my keeper shelf.” —Dani Pettrey, bestselling author of the Coastal Guardians series
- Full-length, stand-alone suspense novel
- Award-winning, bestselling author
- Also by Carrie Stuart Parks: Relative Silence, Fragments of Fear, Formula of Deception, and A Cry from the Dust
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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Violence - 2/5
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Summary
Book Title: Woman in the Shadows by Carrie Stuart Parks
Book Reviewer: Donna Feyen
Woman in the Shadows by Carrie Stuart Parks will keep you on your toes. Darby is a character you immediately connect with. Between her past that she is trying to move on from and her love of dogs, she is immediately a hero to me. She has been in a program to help her overcome a bad situation and the PTSD from it. They send her to a ranch to see what she can identify of the ‘accidents’ that keep happening. I loved her skill as a forensic linguist. It was fascinating how the author would dissect the conversations.
There was a minor romance with one of the deputies. He is investigating a serial arsonist.
The author added some very interesting scenes. One of them was how the Mae drew people and you looked at each side of their face (public and private side). The dogs had their own personalities and were key characters in the story.