The Dark by Emma Haughton 4****

RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Genre: Locked Room Thriller

Pages: 378

Pub-Date: Aug. 19th, 2021

First of all thanks to #netgalley and #hodderbooks for this free e-ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This was an excellent whodunnit locked-room mystery in the hostile environments of Antarctica!

Kate is a young A&E doctor, struggling with PTSD after a horrific car accident. To banish her bad memories, she takes a job as a doctor at a UN research station in the harsh conditions of Antarctica, with only 12 other crew members, months of complete darkness and no way to leave after the last plane takes off before winter sets in!

When one of the crew is found dead after openly voicing his suspicions about the mysterious death of the previous doctor, Kate begins to wonder if there is a murderer among them.

The beginning was a little slow, as the author sets the scene for us and we are introduced to each one of the characters. But the story soon picks up, casting you head-on toward a heart-stopping collision as Kate’s secret addiction to her overprescribed meds spirals out of control and she frantically tries to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again.

Towards the end I was flipping through the pages, suspecting each one of the characters. I kept praying that Kate would keep her wits about her as she tried to cope with opiate withdrawal, surviving sub-zero temperatures and finding the killer while having to perform a last-minute surgery with the power down!

Talk about adrenaline thrillers… 😨 and no, I didn’t guess who the killer was!😤

The perfect read for anyone wanting to escape the summer heat!