The Darkness Gathers

Description

Fifteen and gorgeous, Tatiana Quinn disappears from her Miami bedroom sometime after midnight. Her backpack, $160 stashed in her jewelry box, and her favorite clothes are also missing. The police conclude she ran away. Her wealthy father quickly posts a million-dollar reward for her safe return. But the beautiful teen has not been found. Then Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime writer Lydia Strong gets an audio tape in the mail. Becoming a celebrity has made Lydia a magnet for requests from psychotics, prisoners, and the desperate families of murder victims. Cautiously she plays the tape and hears a girl calling herself Tatiana pleading for help. Now Lydia and her lover P.I. Jeffrey Mark, an ex-FBI agent, rush to Florida...and enter into a nightmare. Something seems fishy about the Quinn household. Something seems strange about the original investigation. And someone very powerful wants to kill the case. Simplest method? Make sure a nosy writer is good...and dead.

First Sentence

The voice on the tape was thin and quavering.

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Other Editions

• The Darkness Gathers: A Novel (Lydia Strong Mysteries)Mass Market PaperbackSt. Martin's Paperbacks2004-04-06
• Darkness GathersMacmillan1957-01-01
• The darkness gathersSt. Martin's Minotaur2003-01-01
• The Darkness GatherseBookSnowbooks2006-01-01