48. A Cry in the Dark by Denise Grover Swank

#1 Carly Moore

listened on Audible

narrated by Shannon McManus very well

Unabridged audio (10:48)
2019
376 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery
Finished 5/8/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.45 - 1976 ratings
My rating: 3
Setting: Contemporary small Smoky Mountain town, Tennessee

First line/s: " 'No, no, no, no, NO!' I shouted, banging the heel of my hand on the steering wheel of my Honda."

My comments: This is a mediocre mystery that dragged in many places much longer than it needed to.  Much, or even most, of it was either eye-rolling or difficult to believe.  Repetitive and slow quite a bit.  Very decent narrator was one of the details that kept me listening.  There are two or three or maybe even four more to come in the series, 50 -50 on whether I will continue.

Goodreads synopsis:  A woman fleeing her past finds more than she bargains for in a new suspense series by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank.

          A woman on the run with no one to trust.
          With the ink barely dry on her new identity, Cary Moore just wants to disappear…but fate has other plans.
          Broken down car, next to nothing in her bank account, Carly is stuck in a Smoky Mountain town that time has forgotten. Drum is riddled with secrets and outsiders are eyed with distrust. Still, it isn’t until she witnesses a cold-blooded murder in a darkened parking lot, that she realizes she’s escaped one nightmare, only to land in another.
          As the clock ticks down and more bodies pile up, Carly doesn’t know who to trust. If she doesn’t stop the killers, they just might stop her…permanently.