The Darkest Time of Night
A Novel
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4.3 • 25 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Investigative journalist for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Jeremy Finley's debut thriller explores what happens to people’s lives when our world intersects with the unexplainable.
"The lights took him."
When the seven-year-old grandson of U.S. Senator vanishes in the woods behind his home, the only witness is his older brother who whispers, “The lights took him,” and then never speaks again.
As the FBI and National Guard launch a massive search, the boys' grandmother Lynn Roseworth fears only she knows the truth. But coming forward would ruin her family and her husband’s political career.
In the late 1960s, before she became the quiet wife of a politician, Lynn was a secretary in the astronomy department at the University of Illinois. It was there where she began taking mysterious messages for one of the professors; messages from people desperate to find their missing loved ones who vanished into beams of light.
Determined to find her beloved grandson and expose the truth, she must return to the work she once abandoned to unravel the existence of a place long forgotten by the world. It is there, buried deep beneath the bitter snow and the absent memories of its inhabitants, where her grandson may finally be found.
But there are forces that wish to silence her. And Lynn will find how far they will go to stop her, and how the truth about her own forgotten childhood could reveal the greatest mystery of all time.
Jeremy Finley’s debut The Darkest Time of Night was hailed by People magazine and the NY Post as one of the best books of the summer of 2018, was named to the Lariat list as one of the top 25 outstanding books of the year, and described by NPR as "a hugely satisfying, while still mystifying, suspense novel."
June 2018 SIBA Okra Selection
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s The X-Files meets Thelma and Louise meets The Good Wife. TV reporter Jeremy Finley’s debut novel is a sci-fi thriller with the kind of nuanced storytelling found in the best, most bingeable TV shows. Lynn Roseworth is the wife of a U.S. senator whose seven-year-old grandson vanishes one night; a terrifying hunch leads Lynn and her lifelong best friend on a frantic road trip. Laced with episodic cliffhangers and unexpected reveals, The Darkest Time of Night is impossible not to tear through in an all-nighter.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lynn Roseworth, the protagonist of investigative reporter Finley's outstanding debut, is faced with a crisis after her seven-year-old grandson, William Chance, disappears in the woods behind her Nashville home shortly before the official announcement that her husband, Sen. Tom Roseworth, is the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Memories of her father's warnings about the terrors of the woods haunt Lynn, especially when the only witness William's severely traumatized older brother, Brian tells her that the "lights took him." Decades earlier, Lynn worked for an astronomer at the University of Illinois who studied disappearances across the country, including one in which a similar phrase was used. She doggedly pursues explanations for what happened to William that stray from law enforcement's theory that political enemies of Tom's abducted the boy. Finley's complex portrayal of his heroic lead will carry readers through plot developments that would come across as unconvincing in the hands of a lesser writer. X-Files fans will be enthralled.
Customer Reviews
Amazing
This book is truly amazing. I went to school with Jeremy and his wife Rebecca. I'm so happy for the both of them. Jeremy, I loved this book. Thank you for writing it.