“A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” ―Karin Slaughter
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?
From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.
“A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” ―Karin Slaughter
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?
From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.
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Crafting intricate psychological suspense set against Southern backdrops, fiction in this genre explores the complex dynamics of memory, loyalty, and personal trauma. Author Stacy Willingham established a major presence in contemporary mystery and crime fiction with her bestselling debut novel, A Flicker in the Dark, which sold over one million copies in North America alone and earned translation into more than thirty languages worldwide.
Her subsequent novels, including All the Dangerous Things, Only If You're Lucky, and Forget Me Not, focus on dark psychological twists, female resilience, and intimate relationship betrayals while drawing heavily on evocative coastal atmospheres.
Willingham grew up in South Carolina with an early interest in storytelling, writing short stories and screenplays before developing a passion for reporting on her high school newspaper. She earned her B.A. in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and later received an M.F.A. in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Before embarking on a full-time fiction career, she worked for several years as a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies.
Published in 2022, her debut thriller A Flicker in the Dark earned widespread industry accolades. It won Strand Magazine's Best Debut Award and was named a finalist for the Book of the Month's Book of the Year award, the Goodreads Choice Best Debut award, the Goodreads Choice Best Mystery & Thriller award, and the International Thriller Writers (ITW) Best First Novel award. She currently resides in the Charleston, South Carolina area, writing full-time as a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist.
Willingham's narrative style is characterized by high tension, shifting timelines, and unreliable central perspectives that examine moral ambiguity and past secrets. Her stories frequently center on women uncovering hidden truths while confronting deep emotional wounds, missing loved ones, or fragile friendships. Drawing on her personal memories of living in South Carolina and Georgia, she embeds distinct regional details—such as coastal waterways and lowcountry settings—to create immersive, claustrophobic atmospheres that reflect the interior lives of her characters.
2 books in catalog
Crafting intricate psychological suspense set against Southern backdrops, fiction in this genre explores the complex dynamics of memory, loyalty, and personal trauma. Author Stacy Willingham established a major presence in contemporary mystery and crime fiction with her bestselling debut novel, A Flicker in the Dark, which sold over one million copies in North America alone and earned translation into more than thirty languages worldwide.
Her subsequent novels, including All the Dangerous Things, Only If You're Lucky, and Forget Me Not, focus on dark psychological twists, female resilience, and intimate relationship betrayals while drawing heavily on evocative coastal atmospheres.
Willingham grew up in South Carolina with an early interest in storytelling, writing short stories and screenplays before developing a passion for reporting on her high school newspaper. She earned her B.A. in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and later received an M.F.A. in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Before embarking on a full-time fiction career, she worked for several years as a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies.
Published in 2022, her debut thriller A Flicker in the Dark earned widespread industry accolades. It won Strand Magazine's Best Debut Award and was named a finalist for the Book of the Month's Book of the Year award, the Goodreads Choice Best Debut award, the Goodreads Choice Best Mystery & Thriller award, and the International Thriller Writers (ITW) Best First Novel award. She currently resides in the Charleston, South Carolina area, writing full-time as a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist.
Willingham's narrative style is characterized by high tension, shifting timelines, and unreliable central perspectives that examine moral ambiguity and past secrets. Her stories frequently center on women uncovering hidden truths while confronting deep emotional wounds, missing loved ones, or fragile friendships. Drawing on her personal memories of living in South Carolina and Georgia, she embeds distinct regional details—such as coastal waterways and lowcountry settings—to create immersive, claustrophobic atmospheres that reflect the interior lives of her characters.
