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The Comfort of Black

By: Carter Wilson
Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts
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Though they seem to have everything, Hannah Parks has watched her husband, Dallin, become increasingly distant. Her hope is buoyed when the couple decides to start a family, but what Dallin reveals in his sleep one night rocks Hannah to her core. As she starts to investigate a much darker side of Dallin than she ever knew existed, Hannah peels away the layers of a diseased relationship closely tied to her own abusive past.

When Dallin attempts to have Hannah abducted, she is forced to run, doing so with the aid of a man named Black - an ex-con and expert at helping people disappear. Together they must keep Hannah safe from her husband's far-reaching grasp, all the while trying to solve the mystery behind Dallin's sudden violence. Does Hannah's dark family history hold the key to her survival?

©2015 Carter Wilson (P)2015 Cherry Hill Publishing, LLC Crime Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Marriage

Critic reviews

"Gritty, unflinching, and sometimes violent, this thriller is reminiscent of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and the television series The Equalizer. The characters are intriguing and the writing deliciously descriptive. Adrenaline junkies and fans of darker crime fiction will take to this book, which is compelling and exciting enough to be read in one sitting." ( Library Journal)
"Outstanding paranoid thriller." ( Publishers Weekly)
"In addition to its rollicking pace and complex characters, the book's turns of phrase and evocative imagery make it enjoyable. 'Hannah's premarital fling is a romance that lasted not much longer than the flowers.' A promontory is described as 'a snake of land'. Hannah thinks of the color black: 'She could hide in [it]. Wrap it around her.' Thriller aficionados, especially women, will wrap themselves in this novel's pages with gusto." ( ForeWord Reviews)
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This is a story of love gone wrong, not for the faint of heart and not with any kindness. A man's love for money costs him his wife, and then his love of his bastard child. Of a damaged daughter desperate for a safe place which she assumed would be inside her marriage. Of a sister's love for a violent father and their status quo, and coveting her sister's "successful, perfect" life.

It is also a journey where Hanna wakes up to all her realities, Her vacillations (bordering on the stupid) and need for comfort and closure result in very bleak consequences. Hanna is ultimately a cold woman, emotionally frozen in time by events.

The writer knows how to crank up tension and drama but not passion.

The narration was excellent.

There is no HEA just HFN in this book. If I could undo selecting this book I would as it left me so depressed.

A STRANGE SAD TALE

Black indeed

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