Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Echoes of Darkness by Darlene L. Turner

Genre: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Love Inspired Trade
Releases: June 24, 2025
352 pages

About the Book:

A serial killer stalks a small town, and a police officer must face her family’s dark past to catch him.

The sleepy community of Kenorapeake Falls in northern Ontario seems like somewhere Constable Oaklynn Brock can finally outrun her violent past. That is, until she’s assigned to investigate a series of suspicious deaths. She can’t reveal that she knows how serial killers think because she grew up with one. Yet the eerie similarities between these murders and those committed by her father, known as the Suicide Slayer, hint at a copycat in their midst. But why here and why now?

Caleb Greene of the Canadian Watchers Squad, a special task force, has his own reasons to be wary of working alongside Oaklynn. But with rumors of a local cult known as the Light Paragons gaining power, the stakes are too high to refuse.

As they explore connections between the killings and cult, Oaklynn and Caleb are forced to confront old secrets…and a terrifying new threat. Someone is watching Oaklynn’s every move. They know exactly who she is and what she might be capable of. And soon her biggest fear isn’t just having her past exposed, but that a killer will turn whatever days she has left into a living nightmare…
 

My Rating & Thoughts:    


Constable Oaklynn Brock is the daughter of a serial killer and an abuse victim herself. She entered the police force to catch those responsible for horrible crimes. Caleb is part of a civilian group tasked by the Mayor to assist the police in figuring out what is going on in their community and putting a stop to it. There appears to be a copycat serial killer in the community who is taunting and targeting Oaklynn. Both Caleb and Oaklynn having issues from their pasts that are hitting very close to home with this case. Can they work together to stop the person or people responsible before others or themselves get hurt? This was dark and creepy at times as the case involves a serial killer, a cult, and drugs. In the midst of the darkness though there is a light and quite a bit of conversation about God and faith. I enjoyed the friendships and family support portrayed, along with a bit of humor from a matchmaking teen. It is filled with twists and turns, light verses dark and overcoming struggles with God's help. I had no idea who was responsible and was along for the ride trying to figure it out.

(I received an ARC of this book from the authoropinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

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