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All the Dangerous Things: The gripping new psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark

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Isabelle is determined for justice by enlisting True Crime hobbyists, podcasters, and anyone else willing to help find Mason so she can get some closure on these events full of dark secrets! Together, the pair go down the rabbit hole, following the trail of Isabelle’s missing son wherever it leads—even into the lives of Isabelle’s loved ones, and all the way back to her own murky childhood. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Isabelle is the typical contemporary thriller protagonist: a woman obsessed with an idea and who assumes herself to be correct while everyone around her has to be wrong. I knew who the bad person was very early on though I admit I didn't know exactly how it all went down it and when I found out I just shrugged my shoulders ready to move on.

She isn't sleeping at all and she goes to different true crime conventions in the hope that she can get the word out about her son. Although the analogies are really good, there are too many of them, they become distracting and pull you out of the storyline. It starts out very sad, Isabelle’s baby Mason has been kidnapped and a year later there are still no clues as to what happened to him. His questions of her childhood and background bring up memories of the trauma that she lived through when she was young.Like “A Flicker in the Dark” this story is a slow burn 🔥, immediately captivating, plausible story of SUSPENSE-filled with beautiful vivid descriptions, contemplative prose and intricate plotting. The locations and settings add another dimension too as they perfectly match the events, creating a terrific atmosphere and heightening the tension and increasing intensity. All the Dangerous Things is a psychological thriller about a missing child and his sleep-deprived mother obsessed with finding out the truth behind his disappearance.

Isabelle has been giving speeches to packed audiences, pleading with attendees to come forward with any information, no matter how small.I follow him out the door and through a dim hallway, the fluorescent lights buzzing in my ear like an electric chair humming to life. Despite not being a big fan of the unreliable narrator trope, I enjoyed last year's debut "A Flicker in the Dark" and this one tops that! Determined to find Mason, Isabelle must face her past, even if it means accepting that she might have put her son in danger.

Isabelle's entire existence now revolves around finding him, but she knows she can’t go on this way forever. I loved seeing how the pieces fit together--although everything wraps up a little too neatly, the ending was quite gratifying. Willingham has managed to take the common and simple act of sleepwalking to a whole new level, who knew it could be so dangerous and so creepy, not just for the sleepwalker themselves but for those around them too? I felt it gave a lot of insight into who Isabelle was as a character and helped to give substance to her motivations in her present.Isabella is spending all of her waking time making lists and charts of people who attend, known criminals in the area, trying to find a link somewhere to her missing son. All The Dangerous Things has some chilling and harrowing scenes both from Isabelle's childhood and her current life, she doesn’t know what’s real or not after the sleep deprivation of being a new mother and then having no sleep at all since he disappeared. Instead, ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS shines thanks to its superb character development and the effective way in which it draws readers into its protagonist’s increasingly unstable state of mind. I dig my hand into my purse and pull out a bottle of eye drops—redness relief—and squirt three beads of liquid into each eye with expert precision. In her first book, there were several references to the 'Flicker' and in this one, several made towards the water, sort of as a running theme that helped drive this home (and don't get me started on the PERFECT cover!

This is the kind of book that makes me want to stay up all night to keep reading, especially since each chapter ending begged for me to move on to the next chapter. And, now Isabelle Drake is the keynote speaker at TrueCrimeCon-the largest true crime conference in the world-drawing a global attendance of over 10,000-trying to keep her son’s case alive, as it grows COLD-still with no leads. Everyone else has moved on – the detectives, the press, her husband – but she can’t rest until she knows the truth. Isabelle (Izzy) Drake's toddler, Mason was snatched from his crib in the middle of the night, the baby monitor ran out of battery and there was no break-in. Stacy Willingham’s masterful use of dual timelines adds intrigue and atmosphere to this compelling mystery, while her immersive writing draws readers into our protagonist’s increasingly unstable state of mind.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Her husband has moved out, and moved on-so when Waylon Spencer offers to feature her on his True Crime Podcast, she has nothing left to lose. It made me feel the book was leggy and when a direction or angle of the story was engrossing, it got broken up by whole chapters that lagged behind the speed i wanted and was engrossed by.

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