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Darkness, My Old Friend (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (edition 2012)

by Lisa Unger

Series: The Hollows (2)

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies and Fragile returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice.
 
After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is having trouble facing a horrible event from his past and finding a second act. Heâ??s in therapy. Then, on a brisk October morning, he has a visitor. Eloise Montgomery, the psychic who plays a key role in Fragile, comes to him with predictions about his future, some of them dire.
Michael Holt, a young man who grew up in The Hollows, has returned looking for answers about his mother, who went missing many years earlier. He has hired local PI Ray Muldune and psychic Eloise Montgomery to help him solve the mystery that has haunted him. What he finds might be his undoing.
Fifteen-year-old Willow Graves is exiled to The Hollows from Manhattan when six months earlier she moved to the quiet town with her novelist mother after a bitter divorce.  Willow is acting out, spending time with kids that bring out the worst in her. And when things get hard, she has a tendency to run awayâ??a predilection that might lead her to dark places.
Set in The Hollows, the backdrop for Fragile, this is the riveting story of lives set on a collision course with devastating consequences. The result is Lisa Ungerâ??s most compelling fiction
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Title:Darkness, My Old Friend (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Authors:Lisa Unger
Info:Vintage (2012), Edition: a, Mass Market Paperback, 496 pages
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
I tried to like the book. I have read the first few chapters and the story just does not get started. Very slow and the characters are problematic with their own isssues... I may try this. I may try again at a later time but there are too many books to read that are much much better, so I doubt I will waste time with this one ( )
  Ivy_Skye | Apr 5, 2023 |
Hello, Darkness My Old Friend by Lisa Unger is a 2011 publication.

Jones Cooper is now retired, but it’s not going well. He’s looking for a purpose, while his wife insists he continue seeing his therapist. An opportunity presents itself when a renowned psychic approaches him with a dire warning, and he is lured into a the private detective sector. The case in question is a cold case surrounding the mysterious disappearance of a woman who was thought to have walked out on her husband and kids never to be seen or heard from again. Now that the woman’s husband has died, her son has returned to settle his affairs, but seems more interested in digging around some old mines. His odd behavior is noticed by a teenage girl quite by accident and could inadvertently put her in danger…

I have noticed while culling through my TBR list this past year, and now looking through the hundreds of books on my Kindle, that I tend to hoard books by specific authors. I’m not sure why I do that, but I know I love their work and will want to read anything they write. Maybe I want to store them up for a rainy day or want to have a good selection to choose from and never have to wait for their next book to come out. I don’t know- but Lisa Unger is one of those authors. This book has been sitting around on my Kindle for a good long while and really took me back to Hollows- a place I got familiar with back when I first discovered this author. This story took me a while to get into as I was unsure how the various seemingly disconnected threads were going to merge.

I suspected the outcome early on but liked the way all was revealed and the positive way the story ends for our hero.

I can’t say this was one of my favorites by this author, but I still enjoyed it and am glad I’m making time to work her through some of her backlisted titles.

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  gpangel | May 3, 2022 |
I thought I had figured out whodunnit fairly early on. More character development which i like. In the first book in the series the dog is a part, not too big, of the story. No dog in this one. No idea why. Just saying ( )
  Sunandsand | Apr 30, 2022 |
This was an excellent book.It is a dark type of novel about a child that has a difficult past and some killings over time of multiple people.It is a very interesting thriller type of novel that ends in a way you will not expect. It definetely keeps you going,It is one of my favorites.I do not want to give away the story line.So read it .If you like this style of writing it be be one you like. ( )
  LizME | Sep 30, 2021 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies and Fragile returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice.
 
After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is having trouble facing a horrible event from his past and finding a second act. Heâ??s in therapy. Then, on a brisk October morning, he has a visitor. Eloise Montgomery, the psychic who plays a key role in Fragile, comes to him with predictions about his future, some of them dire.
Michael Holt, a young man who grew up in The Hollows, has returned looking for answers about his mother, who went missing many years earlier. He has hired local PI Ray Muldune and psychic Eloise Montgomery to help him solve the mystery that has haunted him. What he finds might be his undoing.
Fifteen-year-old Willow Graves is exiled to The Hollows from Manhattan when six months earlier she moved to the quiet town with her novelist mother after a bitter divorce.  Willow is acting out, spending time with kids that bring out the worst in her. And when things get hard, she has a tendency to run awayâ??a predilection that might lead her to dark places.
Set in The Hollows, the backdrop for Fragile, this is the riveting story of lives set on a collision course with devastating consequences. The result is Lisa Ungerâ??s most compelling fiction

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