The Dark Room

by Jonathan Moore

""Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room." --James Patterson ; The heart-pounding follow-up to the "electrifying" Poison Artist shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied." --Stephen King ; Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco's mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city...a helicopter is on its way. The casket, and Cain's cold-case investigation, must wait. At City Hall, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he's received: the first, an unforgettable blonde; the second, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third, the woman drinking from a flask; and last, the woman naked, unconscious, and shackled to a bed. The accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations are on the way unless the mayor takes his own life first. An intricately plotted, deeply affecting thriller that keeps readers guessing until the final pages, The Dark Room tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow" --

• ISBN10: 0544784677
• ISBN13: 9780544784673
• Publish Date: 10 January 2017
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Mariner Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

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This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.


Gavin is asked, or more like moved without a warning, to be in a threatening case against the mayor. Black and white devastating photographs have been sent to him in which it shows a woman being tortured and raped. If he kills himself, the photographs will never appear to the public eye. If he doesn't, he may not be a mayor anymore.

With that kind of plot, who wouldn't be interested?! I dived into this book and it was hard to put down so I could get some sleep. Each chapter would have something revealing and intriguing that would hold my attention completely. My mind was going crazy with all the possibilities of who could be sending the pictures and why. Not only that, those photographs were taken when the mayor was a freshman in college and now he's old so I was wondering what their purpose would serve. Turns out, a lot!

I cannot say much without giving the story away. It's better to go in not knowing a lot. I kind of had a hunch of who could be doing those things but I wasn't certain. Also, I had another hunch from the beginning of the book and it turned out I was right! I mean, along the way the story I totally forgot about the connection, but when it came to light, I was patting myself on the back for thinking about it as soon as I started the book.

The Dark Room is one of those books that when you think you know what happened, it veers directions and plunges into another stream of questions and doubt. It's a Crime Thriller novel that will lure you in from the first chapter and then capture your attention until the very last page. I do wish there had been a better resolution or justice to the case. Other than that, this was a great crime novel that I won't forget anytime soon.

I received an ARC from the publisher for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.This review was originally posted on Latte Nights Reviews.