Esse não é um relacionamento saudável que você lê em diversos livros de romances, mas ainda assim, mesmo de um jeito doentio, eles se completam. Cummins adds in a bit of texture as we learn about potential marital issues, dodgy business dealings and a daughter who’s less-perfect than she comes across. multilayered thriller with lives and pasts colliding, with very complex characters with extremely complicated backgrounds and even more tangled relationships. Piper’s marital issues; her husband’s ‘dodgy’ business dealings; a daughter who is far from perfect but, who comes across as an angel. Wow, this is yet another excellent psychological thriller from this talented author, this one is deviously and deliciously dark from beginning to end and you savour every unpredictable twist and turn.

The "golden" Holden family, Piper and Gray and their two teenagers, Riva and Artie, seem to have it all, so when Piper's best friend, Julianne, shows up one morning for their daily run and finds that the entire family has seemingly vanished without a trace - the kettle is still warm on the stove, the family’s phones are all charging on the counter, and their cars are in the garage - she knows something is wrong. Thrown headlong into this missing person’s case, he quickly connects with linguist Dr Clover March, brought in to analyse the writing left on teen daughter Riva’s mirror, ‘ Make them stop’. Then a gruesome discovery in Riva's room - the phrase "make them stop" scrawled across the mirror in blood and spray of blood on one of the chandeliers, changes everything. Her yellow raincoat flapped in the cool breeze when she walked by, that blonde hair making her look like a drowned rat as she stopped to taste the rain. You enter a story conference with Raymond Chandler, visit the set of Laura, and watch Detour with a Midwest audience.An engaging and thrilling dive into toxic relationships, coercive control, the most dysfunctional families living in the most boring, every town you can imagine, this will keep you guessing what is going on, as short chapter after short chapter builds a picture of artifice, betrayal and murder. Here there be monsters’ in the uncharted waters of the upmarket Essex seaside town of Midtown-on-Sea. This bunch of people are definitely not the sort you want to get too close to, as one unpleasant surprise followed the other and each character harboured some dark shameful secret. Fiona Cummins, what a dark, devious mind you must have to come up with this plot (and that is a compliment!

There is treachery, lies by the truckload and one character who is so cold calculating it freezes your blood.But that next sentence doesn’t necessarily have to be the next sentence as the reader will encounter it. Cummins then flicks back and forth in time – hours, days and weeks before the Holden family’s disappearance. It is true that no-one ever knows what really happens behind closed doors, and in this book that couldn’t be more true. Beginning with DS Anguish - I was suspicious from the get go - familiar - I’ll let you figure that out - breadcrumbs are there for readers of The Collector however if you have not read Fiona Cummins Bone Collector series that is not going to diminish your experience with this book. The panic and fear, tension and suspense builds and you feel as if you are on a rollercoaster ride propelling you at great momentum towards an outcome you cannot foresee.

Enter, Detective DS Saul Anguish who is brilliant, with a dark and sinister past (everyone has secrets, right? Nothing is quite as it seems and Fiona Cummins has excelled at taking that suburban utopia and gradually dispelling all the myths and supposition about just how blissful it is.Both have, what appears to be a perfect family, a successful husband, one son and one daughter each.

His gaze stalks and tracks me like a game of cat and mouse, his eyes licking fire over my skin every time they glance in my direction. The whole Holden family, Piper, Gray and the children Riva and Artie are no where to be seen but their belongings are all still here. Into the Dark is the new dark and gripping crime thriller from Fiona Cummins about revenge, greed, ambition and the true cost of. I note in my review of When I Was Ten I commented on her adding in a few twists when we assumed we had all of the answers and she does the same thing here.However, if another book was published with his character I would definitely read it to see if I could gather more insight. But when the ship he’s traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds himself at the center of the action. While his backstory and certain behavioural aspects sound immensely fascinating, I didn’t quite see the point of it all.