Dazzling Darkness

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 2013

A secret lies buried beneath the haunting statuary in Old Willow Cemetery. In Concord, Massachusetts, the surrounding woods are alive with the spirits of transcendentalists Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott. Elias Hatch, the cemetery keeper, is the last of modern-day transcendentalists. Does he know the secret power buried in Old Willow Cemetery? Would he reveal it?

Next door to this cemetery is a lovely gabled house. When the Brooke family moves in, the secret of Old Willow strikes.

On a cold afternoon in March, five-year-old Henry Brooke does not arrive home from the school bus stop. Antonia Brooke is frantic her child is missing, or—the unspeakable—stolen. Adam Brooke spends a harrowing night searching the Concord woods, fear gripping him as hours pass with no leads.

Finally, a police dog tracks Henry’s scent inside Old Willow Cemetery. Detective Mike Balducci suspects that Elias Hatch knows the truth about what happened to Henry. Balducci knows Hatch’s metaphysical beliefs. What Balducci discovers buried in the cemetery is beyond the grave, beyond apparitions or shadowy drifts rushing through the pine trees.

There are the dazzled faces in the darkened air … and their secret.

The Dazzling Darkness is a paranormal mystery.

  

REVIEW

 This is a great spooky story for those who love  tales of suspense and spookieness. The characters and story line drew me in immediately. I read the whole book in like 4 hours. I read fast and it was hard to put this one down to go get kids and make dinner.

For parents the idea of a child being abducted is the scariest thing possible. But these parents are continually faced with unnerving experiences which beg the question is our son really gone? Abducted?

I read this as September is coming to a close and the Month of Halloween is close upon us. This is going to be on my great spooky books for October list.