Here in the Dark by Alexis SoloskiMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Vivian Parry is a NYC theater critic who lives a small quiet life in between attending the theater and writing her typically very critical reviews. In order to cope with a serious trauma ten years ago in college, she has withdrawn from most of the world with alcohol, drugs, and sex with strangers. She comes alive in the theater as the lights go down and lives vicariously through the players on the stage.
A graduate student contacts her requesting an interview for some research he is doing. She is very unsettled by some information he has about her past and leaves the interview abruptly. She later finds out that he has gone missing and she is the last person to see him alive. Thus begins the cat and mouse game of Vivian trying to figure out what happened to the student, and fearing for her life. This was an incredible thriller and page-turner!
I originally heard about this book when Maureen Corrigan reviewed it on NPR. "Soloski, too, might have played it safe, but, fortunately for us readers she didn't. Instead of writing a coy send-up of a theatrical thriller, she's written a genuinely disturbing suspense tale that explores the theater of cruelty life can sometimes be."
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/30/1215944414/book-review-here-in-the-dark-alexis-soloski-the-mystery-guest-nita-prose
I'm really looking forward to what Alexis Soloski writes next!
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