Fear the Darkness - Brigid Quinn, Bk 2 Author:Becky Masterman Retirement is a bitch. Between ravine walks with her pugs and liquid lunches with her new friend Mallory, ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn can’t stop working. She’s taking cases as a private investigator -- just to keep her hand in -- and is immediately drawn to the suspicious death of a local teen that may have chilling consequences for he... more »r own family.
A fourteen-year-old boy is found drowned in a swimming pool fully clothed but with his pants around his ankles. Retracing his steps, Brigid learns that shortly before his death, the boy had played the Choking Game with friends and uploaded a video of it onto YouTube. None of his friends are talking, and Brigid fears the boy’s death could be the first of many.
Enter Brigid’s clever but emotionally damaged niece Gemma Kate. She comes to live with her aunt Brigid following the death of her mother and immediately connects with a local boy who knew the drowned teen. But Gemma Kate’s arrival also coincides with a series of ghastly poisonings close to home. Can Gemma Kate help solve Brigid’s case, or is she the biggest threat of all?« less