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Fear The Darkness by Becky Masterman

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Also by Becky Masterman:

We Were Killers Once, June 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
A Twist of the Knife, October 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
A Twist of the Knife, April 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Fear The Darkness, May 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Fear the Darkness, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Rage Against the Dying, March 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Rage Against The Dying, March 2013
Hardcover / e-Book

FEAR THE DARKNESS
By: Becky Masterman

Brigid Quinn
Minotaur Books
May 2016
On Sale: April 26, 2016
Featuring: Brigid Quinn
322 pages
ISBN: 1250073936
EAN: 9781250073938
Kindle: B00IQO730M
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Hardcover (January 2015)

Thriller Psychological | Thriller Crime

It's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder. That's because a psychopath is just a person before he becomes a headline….Psychopaths have preferences for Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts coffee, denim or linen, Dickens or…well, you get the point.

Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn has seen more than her share of psychopaths. She is ready to put all that behind her, building a new life in Tucson with a husband, friends, and some nice quiet work as a private investigator. Sure, she could still kill a man half her age, but she now gets her martial arts practice by teaching self-defense at a women's shelter.

But sometimes it isn't that simple. When her sister-in-law dies, Brigid take in her seventeen-year-old niece, Gemma Kate. There has always been something unsettling about Gemma-Kate, but family is family. Which is fine, until Gemma-Kate starts taking an unhealthy interest in dissecting the local wildlife.

Meanwhile, Brigid agrees to help a local couple by investigating the death of their sonβ€”which also turns out not to be that simple. Her house isn't the sanctuary it used to be, and new dangersβ€”including murderβ€”seem to lurk everywhere. Brigid starts to wonder if there is anyone she can trust, or if the devil has simply moved closer to home.

Becky Masterman's Fear the Darkness is the masterful follow-up to the Edgar Award and CWA Gold Dagger finalist Rage Against the Dying.