Book Review: Until Dark

Reviewed By: NH Storm

Until Dark     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Mariah Stewart
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Serial Killer   Romantic Suspense   Police Procedural   Government Agency
2003, Ballantine, 416 pages

"Until Dark" steals your attention and runs with it until the very last period! Kendra Smith, a freelance artist with the FBI has a way with witnesses and can transform every memory of the killer's face onto paper with uncanny ability. Her own brother and cousin was kidnapped years before but no bodies were ever found. After the trial based on circumstantial evidence, Kendra's mother, a well- known Senator, commits suicide.

The FBI contacts Kendra to help construct a sketch of the "Soccer Mom Killer" so dubbed as he targets single moms who have a career and also are involved with their children's lives. Kendra throws herself into this assignment as an attempt to pick up the pieces of her own life. This difficult assignment is made almost impossible as Kendra must work with an old flame, Special Agent Adam Stark. Are the sparks still smoldering, waiting to be ignited or were they truly extinquished?

As the bodies mount, Agent Stark realizes the killer is trying to get Kendra's attention in a most gruesome way. Kendra's baffled as she's not a single mom, can hardly tell a basketball from a soccer ball but she learns that "You can run from your past but you can't hide from it....."

NH Storm

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