Slipping into Darkness

by Blauner, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780316098663
• ISBN10: 0316098663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-24
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

Lynn Schulman moves back to her quiet suburban hometown, to raise her family and escape from the pressures of city life. Instead, she and her husband Barry find the illusion of security being stripped away one layer at a time. First, a peaceful morning at the town's riverside train station is disrupted when a headless body washes up on the banks, in Barry's sight. Then the police detective who shows up to investigate the scene turns out to be a former boyfriend of Lynn's, who, it turns out, isn't over her by a long shot. He begins showing up unexpectedly at the couple's house, trying to rekindle his relationship with Lynn, and when that fails, he begins to stalk and menace Barry, edging them all closer to a dangerous confrontation that will change all their lives irreparably. A suspense story, that also functions as a social novel about contemporary mores and the tensions of ordinary life in the post 9/11 era.