Glimmer in the Darkness

Page-Turning Suspense with a Sprinkling of Romance (Coventry Saga)

By: Robin Patchen

Narrated by: Robert Andrew Stevenson

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

From a USA Today best-selling author comes this edge-of-your-seat Christian suspense that will keep you listening all night long.

Nothing could get her home...but this

Cassidy Leblanc worked hard to shake off her tragic childhood. As a foster child with a mother in prison for murder, she was an outcast in her small New Hampshire town until she met James. But she and James’s sister, whom she was babysitting, were kidnapped. She escaped, but Hallie didn’t survive, and everybody assumed Cassidy killed her. Like mother, like daughter, after all. With public opinion and the authorities united against her, young Cassidy fled. Now, a decade later, another little girl has been kidnapped, and Cassidy may be the only person who can find her.

He doesn’t know who to trust.

James Sullivan never believed that Cassidy killed his sister, no matter what the authorities said. When his best friend’s daughter goes missing a decade after Hallie's murder, James keeps his opinions on the matter to himself. But when he finds Cassidy sneaking around his property, his thoughts turn dark. If she’s not behind the recent kidnapping, what is she doing back in Coventry? Her answer - that she’s returned to find little Ella, and she needs his help - has him reeling. Can he trust Cassidy, despite what the police tell him? If there’s any chance he can save Ella, he has to try.

Danger lurks on the mountain.

Together, they search for the elusive cave where Cassidy and Hallie were taken, but somebody will stop at nothing to make sure they don’t find it or, if they do, that they don’t come out alive.

Pulse-pounding suspense, second-chance romance, and a precious little girl who only wants her daddy. Start listening to Glimmer in the Darkness today.

©2020 Robin Patchen (P)2021 Robin Patchen

Unpredictable Suspense

Filled with murder, mystery and deception
Hope for more
Faith, trust and redemption.
A great book and look forward to the next read.

Kept my interest

I usually don't like male readers but Robert did a good job. I liked the mention of God, no profanity or gratuitous sex. Nice build of romance. I did start to figure out the bad guy early on, even with the red herrings. I'm going to check out Robin's other books.

Was hoping for more

First, narration was difficult and his presentation was very stilted and choppy. Now the story: it was very drawn out and unrealistic. And speaking of unrealistic, when you finally know who the “bad guy” is (although we had it figured out), it’s just too unbelievable that he’s that mentally diminished and delusional to act as he does with the kidnapped girl yet able to maintain a well functioning life on the outside and no one suspects. Plus, there’s just a quick cursory mention at the end as to “why” they thought he did it, Just too many leaps to be believable and a satisfying end.