Dark Corners follows The Night Swim in the Rachel Krall series. I love the premise of this series, that the main narrator is a podcast host who becomes deeply embroiled in the cases she investigates. In this one, Rachel is thrust into the middle of the influencer world after a famous influencer disappears, one who has a connection to a soon-to-be released convict who is also suspected of being a serial killer.
This book had a bit of a different feel to it. As a character, Rachel often seemed to lack the warmth she had in the first book without any real reason why, other than perhaps an alluded to level of stress connected to hosting a wildly successful podcast. More than that, the style was different, with only Rachel’s POV, as opposed to the dual perspectives in The Night Swim. Instead of the second perspective, there were inserts of the podcast as it was told after the fact. It wasn’t a bad style change, but different.
All in all, this was a great read, with lots of twists and turns. I’m not big into the influencer world, but it was an interesting behind-the-scenes-esque look at it.