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Into the Dark

By: Fiona Cummins
Narrated by: Helen Keeley
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About this listen

Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2023

Into the Dark is the new dark and gripping crime thriller from Fiona Cummins about revenge, greed, ambition and the true cost of friendship.

The Place: Seawings, a beautiful Art Deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in Midtown-on-Sea.

The Crime: The gilded Holden family - Piper and Gray and their two teenage children, Riva and Artie - has vanished from the house without a trace.

The Detective: DS Saul Anguish, brilliant but with a dark past, treads the narrow line between light and shade.

One late autumn morning, Piper’s best friend arrives at Seawings to discover an eerie scene – the kettle is still warm, all the family’s phones are charging on the worktop, the cars are in the garage. But the house is deserted.

In fifteen-year-old Riva Holden’s bedroom, scrawled across the mirror in blood, are three words:

Make

Them

Stop.

What happens next?

©2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited (P)2022 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Crime Crime Fiction Domestic Thrillers Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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Critic reviews

Breathless plotting and twist after twist (Ian Rankin, bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series)
This kept me reading well Into The Dark last night – so many layers of darkness and twisty complexity (Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of Blood Orange)

An absolute BELTER of a thriller. A superb plot, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. (Joanna Cannon, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep)
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I loved this book. I liked the way it slowly unraveled. I usually get bored easily, but this kept me interested and entertained. A brilliant read

Loved it

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So I loved Into The Dark- Helen Keeley did a great job narrating/performing. I think sometimes I had to re-listen because I missed something or was distracted with a time-hop (my own fault really) that I may not have missed if I had been reading. But over all the plot was good! I’m not sure if there’s a series with the character of Saul Anguish as there’s a back story there with a lot of baggage - but that would be interesting. I really liked the end! Such a cliff hanger! And didn’t actually see it coming!

Loved it BUT had to re-listen a few times

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I find that my mind can wander when listening to audiobooks unless the plot is super engaging. This was the case with this book, so I was left wondering who done if the characters were & how they fit in. I felt that I should’ve enjoyed the book more than I did. Some of the characters have potential to grow but I found them a little far fetched. I’ll try the next book & see if I warm to the author. I would recommend you give it a go if you like crime fiction as it’s not bad, it just didn’t quite hit the spot for me.

Lots going on so you need your pay attention

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I loved this in the first hour or so but as it progressed I disliked all the characters and didn’t care what happened.

Dark and twisty but unpleasant

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Happy with narrator but it didn't havevan ending .. the story was clear and built but last quarter left just got ridiculous as if the author thought ... oh I need to go shopping and make supper so it was rushed and no point to the end. felt cheated as it had the worse finish in the 100s of books I have listen to. so felt a waste of time, and put me off any other books by this author. but see what you think. Good luck. 👍

ridiculous finish author must have got bored too.

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It was ok but personally I need a likeable character in order to become invested. I didn’t care about anyone.

Ok

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Firstly I found the 2 stories running through this distracting and couldn't see the point of the second strand. I listened to the end but could not engage with any of these characters nor the rather obvious ending. The intense, terminally depressed tone of the narrator reflected the story accurately but I did not enjoy the performance. I won't be getting anything by this author again

A depressing story to listen to

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I cannot think of anything I enjoyed about this listen. It was convoluted & the hopping backwards & forwards in the timeframes was contrived and distracting. It seemed that all the characters were unpleasant & therefore impossible to engage with but the most irritating thing was the unusual names of the characters, it came across as pretentious & I found myself longing for a ‘John’ or a ‘Jane’. I listened to it about halfway & finally abandoned it. Definitely do not recommend.

Very disappointed!

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I found this book rather depressing not helped by the narrator who droned on in a monotone voice. The story was disjointed and tedious so I skipped through to nearer the end which did turn out to have a twist to it. I certainly would not recommend this book. A complete waste of a credit. One big depressing yawn.

I skipped through chapters.

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The characters in this book are entirely unlikeable . I just didn't care what happened to any of them, really dreary listen.

Disappointing

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