Monday 20 April 2015

Review: A Deep and Dark December by Beth Yarnall

****4 Stars****
 
 
 
To be honest I had no preconceptions about this book. I hadn't fully taken in what it would be about when agreeing to review, but to my amazement I found it was a truly enjoyable read.
Erin is a Clairvoyant in the small town of San Rey. She can see events in the past or the future, so the book on occasion does revert back and forth with these visions and surprisingly I found the to-ing and fro-ing easy to follow, which is a credit to the author. The book as a whole was incredibly well written and unlike the usual books I tend to read.
Graham is the town sheriff, which he isn't to happy about. He comes from a family with a long line of sheriffs, so it has always been expected that he would also fill this role. He very much wants to be back in LA where he has the annonimity and not have everybody knowing his business.
If I had one criticism, it would be that I wanted to be more sucked into the book. The ending didn't blow me away as much as I'd hoped.
This book, I would describe as a 'Whoodunnit' with a paranormal twist and to me, everybody was a suspect. By the time the killer is revealed, I did have that part pretty much worked out, but overall I really did enjoy this book.
 
 
Blurb
 
Someone is killing the residents of San Rey.
Graham is the sixth generation Doran to become sheriff of the sleepy central California coastal town. As long as a Doran has been sheriff there’s been no crime in San Rey, and Graham is counting on that peace and quiet when he returns home after years as an LAPD detective. But when he’s called to the scene of the murder/suicide of an old friend, he sets into motion a series of events that rocks the tiny town, and the only way to catch a killer will be to face his own dark past.

Buried secrets must be told.
Erin December has always felt like an outsider in close-knit San Rey. She comes from a family with unusual psychic abilities, which makes her an outcast in the small town. She’s spent her entire life keeping her own ability a secret—until the day she loses control of the visions, and is forced to watch a brutal murder through the killer’s eyes. Erin becomes the key witness to the first murder the town has seen in sixty years. But to help find the killer, she’s forced to reveal her biggest secret to the last person she thought she could trust—Graham.

To stop a murderer with secrets he’s killing to protect.
The December’s aren’t the only ones in San Rey with psychic abilities. As Graham and Erin’s attraction grows so does the killer’s need to protect his own secrets, turning his power on Erin and her family. Graham will do anything to protect Erin. But how do you catch a murderer who has the power to kill with his mind?
 
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