Eve is no stranger to the dark side of life, having been raised by a hard-edged mother whose lessons Eve tried not to pass on to her own daughter. Eve Taggert, desperate with grief over losing her daughter, takes it upon herself to find out the truth about what happened. Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small town with big secrets, The Familiar Dark opens with a murder. Sometimes the answers are worse than the questions. Thank you so much to the publisher, Dutton Books, for providing me with a copy of this to read and review.One of Publishers Weekly 's Best Books of 2020 (Mystery/Thriller) From its gripping beginning to its sobering finale, Amy Engel's The Familiar Dark never fails to enthrall with surprising twists.- Associated Press A spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground.
Atmospheric and DARK, just how I like ’em. I feel like this is Engel’s wheelhouse it definitely suits her writing style well. If you like gritty Crime Fiction with the perfect touch of Hillbilly Noir, you should definitely give this one a shot! I could feel what she was feeling, it hurt and kept me engaged the whole way through.Ĭoming in at under 300-pages, it is a pretty quick read, but definitely packs a punch. I thought Eve’s character was written so well. The overall feeling is desperate and depressing, but it worked. This book is aptly titled, as it got dark real quick and stayed there. Maybe her Mama’s lessons are going to pay off after all. A warm reunion it is not, but Eve feels oddly supported for the first time. One of her first stops is her Mama’s house.
So, Eve decides to do a bit of investigating of her own.
At least if they are, they aren’t sharing it with her. It’s clear the police, her brother Cal included, are not getting anywhere in their investigation. We’re talking some real hillbilly justice.
Her girl was her entire world, her entire purpose, but now she has a new purpose, getting justice for Junie and she may have to go back to her roots in order to get it. When Junie is murdered, along with her best friend, Izzy, on a snowy day at an abandoned playground, Eve is shattered with grief. She never introduces Junie to her Grandmother and tries her best to make sure Junie always feels safe and loved, a luxury she never had. She spends the next 12-years putting her past far behind her. After the birth of her first and only child, a girl named Junie, Eve Taggert vows to do a better job than her own mother did.
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