#BookReview – The Dark (Lacey Flint 5) by Sharon Bolton #NetGalley #TheDark #LaceyFlint #SecretLibraryBookBlog

Synopsis “ONCE, SHE SAVED HIS LIFE…
NOW, HE’LL TAKE HERS.

When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer Lacey Flint is there to prevent disaster. But who would want to hurt a child? DCI Mark Joesbury has been expecting this. Monitoring a complex network of dark web sites, Joesbury and his team have spotted a new terrorist threat from the extremist, women-hating, group known as ‘incels’ or ‘involuntary celibates.’ Joesbury’s team are trying to infiltrate the ring of power at its core, but the dark web is built for anonymity, and the incel army is vast. Pressure builds when the team learn the snatched child was just the first in a series of violent attacks designed to terrorise women. Worse, the leaders of the movement seem to have singled out Lacey as the embodiment of everything they hate, placing her in terrible danger…“

My Review

This was fantastic read, but boy did it scare me!

I was hooked straight away, thrown back into Lacey’s world on the river Thames where she works with the River Police and where the action for this book takes off! And take off it did and it didn’t really  stop. It was so realistic, sometimes too much for my liking, that I had to put it down at times because it was freaking me out! Just like Dead Scared, the only other Lacey Flint book I’ve dared to read!

The group of ‘incels’ in this book felt very real, in fact it felt like Sharon Bolton had taken her plot line from the media as some of the ideas this group had were terrifying! That’s how realistic her books are. The writing was superb and definitely made me want to read her back catalogue as long as it’s not too scary.  

Highly recommended if you enjoy psychological thrillers.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Orion Books for my digital copy.