Dark of Night by Colleen Coble

Dark of Night
by Colleen Coble

ISBN-13: 9780785253747
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Released: January 10th 2023

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
As if the last few months haven’t been hard enough—complete with threats on her life and the return of her first love, Jon—Annie has to figure out whether or not to believe a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. Annie’s eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, has plenty of questions about what’s going on in her mother’s life—but there are some stones Annie doesn’t want uncovered.

As Annie grapples with how to heal the gulf between her and her would-be sister and make room in her daughter’s life for Jon, she’s professionally distracted by the case of yet another missing hiker in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A woman named Michelle Fraser has now been abducted, and though the woman’s estranged husband is at the top of their suspect list, Annie and her colleagues will need to dig deeper and determine whether these recent mysteries are truly as unrelated as they seem.


My Review:
Dark of Night is a romantic suspense novel. It's the second book in a series and a direct continuation of the previous novel, so it's best to read them in order. There were a number of threads to the story: how to get Kylie to warm up to Jon, especially as they need to tell her something that'll be hard for her to accept. How to deal with the bitter woman who claims to be Annie's sister, especially as she blames Annie for not stopping the abduction when they were both young kids. Finally, a woman has gone missing in the woods and several injured women turn up in the woods along the way as they search for her.

Annie investigated who might have motive to harm the missing woman and where she might be now. Annie asked good questions, and Jon did a better job of helping her on occasion (rather than not passing on some potentially useful information like in the previous novel). As Jon and Annie spent time together, they learned to deal with conflict in a better way than in the past. Jon did his best to show love and understanding toward Kylie so she didn't feel so threaten by his love for her mother. They confirmed if the woman is Annie's sister and struggled with how to show her love when they don't really trust her.

The suspense came from the danger to them and others, and we got the missing woman's point of view as she's injured but struggling to get free. The Christian message was trusting God when you get bad news. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this exciting novel.


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