num_pages: 374
description: The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewWhen high-powered barrister Clare Pascal wakes up in a dank basement, chained to a wall, the attractive British lawyer must figure out who has abducted her -- and why -- before she freezes to death, dies of starvation, or worse. After Clare drops her nine-year-old daughter off at school one morning, she is attacked while walking back to her car and forcibly thrown into the back of a van. Just a few hours later, she is chained to a wall in a dark cellar. Her masked abductor -- completely unidentifiable except for his piercing blue eyes -- doesn't give her any indication of why she was kidnapped. Cold, hungry, and frightened, Clare tries to figure out if this man is somehow connected to her current case -- which involves prosecuting the head of a powerful organized crime family -- or if he is one of the innumerable psychotic criminals she has run across in the past. But as Clare slowly pieces together the truth, she is absolutely shaken to the core to discover the identity of her captor. England's reigning Queen of the Psychological Thriller, Margaret Murphy is a writer who combines Dean Koontz's insight into the criminal mind with Ruth Rendell's narrative savvy and understanding of police procedure. Darkness Falls is a suspense thriller of the highest order. Gripping, intense, and disturbing, this novel is aptly titled: Readers will be frantically turning the pages well into the early hours of the morning. Paul Goat Allen
language: English
title: Darkness Falls
titlecomplete: Darkness Falls (Clara Pascal #1)
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Crime
ratings_count: 791
places: Cheshire, England
series: Clara Pascal
publisher: Leisure Books