Book Review: In the Darkest Hour (Gin Sullivan #3) by Anna Carlisle

Title:  In the Darkest Hour (Gin Sullivan #3) 

Author: Anna Carlisle

Stars: 4 stars

Review:
4 Stars out of 5

Having never read a book by Anna Carlisle before and starting in book 3 I can't help but wonder if the reason I wasn't a huge fan of this book is her writing style.  She takes a long time to get into the mystery and the formal way people speak to each other in a small town took this readers out of the story several times.
The author catches up readers well enough but finding a connecting to the characters was a lot hard because of the violent natural of the make lead. Gin accepts a lot of behavioral issues that should have been a sign to cut and run.
Gin is a good character who is smart and willing to find the truth but the formal way she speaks makes it difficult to connect to readers.  It sometimes feel forced.  The thriller side was interesting but I can't say I didn't see the end coming.
I want to give this author another try and read the first in the series.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Crooked Lane Books for the advance copy of Anna Carlisle In The Darkest Hour.

Synopsis:
Small-town secrets don’t stay buried for long, and no one know that better than former Chicago medical examiner Gin Sullivan. On extended leave from her job, Gin is back in her hometown of Trumbull, PA, settling into a quiet life with her old high school sweetheart, Jake Crosby. But the demons of Gin’s past are lying in wait—and when Jake’s estranged mother turns up dead in a local motel from a heroin overdose, life in Trumbull begins to unravel one thread at a time. 

Dead set on revenge against the dealer, Jake brings in local high school student Jonah Krischer to face justice. But Trumbull police chief Tuck Baxter has to contend with the boy’s father, a prominent physician who threatens legal action over the unconventional arrest—even though Jonah admits to stealing his dad’s prescription pad to sell phony opiate prescriptions for cash. And when Jonah offers to lead police to a body in exchange for leniency, the stiff turns out to be one of the doctor’s own patients. Is there a killer on the loose in Trumbull? 

The race is on to find the truth in Anna Carlisle’s In the Darkest Hour, the third hair-raising Gin Sullivan mystery.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication: September 11th 2018 by Crooked Lane Books

About The Author:

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