Tenderness--sweet, sad and heavy with regret--is not the customary feeling raised by a suspense thriller. But for all its dark artistry, Alice Blanchard's deeply scary first novel, DARKNESS PEERING, is not your off-the-rack genre thriller. Despite a plot that turns on a shocking suicide and some appalling murders, the emotional content of the story outweighs the horror of the events, inviting reflection on its rueful theme of needy people leading disconnected lives.
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