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A Darker Place

av Laurie R. King

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before....

A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until she learns of more than one hundred children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound....

Anne soon realizes that Change is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches...and to the razor's edge of danger.

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Anne Waverly is a professor of religion who occasionally goes undercover for the FBI within communities suspected of developing into dangerous cults. Her background as a member of one such commune with a disastrous end makes her particularly useful; her guilt and grief over the deaths of her own husband and daughter at the hands of a zealot pushes her to continue accepting these assignments even once she has begun to settle into a new life of comparative emotional stability. The novel takes us with Anne as she assumes a new identity to investigate a group calling themselves Change, with a compound in the Arizona desert. Change seems to have nothing to hide; they comply with government regulations and educational standards for the children, welcome routine inspections by Children and Youth and other social welfare agencies, allow members to come and go with relative freedom, and operate a gift shop in the nearby town. The group also takes in, through appropriate channels, "troubled" youth whose needs the beaucratic system has so far failed. Nevertheless, Anne's FBI contact, Agent Glen McCarthy, has heard some disturbing reports about the group's other outposts, and needs an inside source of information. Glen and Anne have a "history" of their own, and it's not an especially healthy one. This novel has the feel of a Daphne DuMaurier story, although with the suspense rendered in a lower key. Not a true "gothic" story, but some of the elements are definitely there---a woman in unfamiliar surroundings trying to sort out what the secrets are, and whom to trust; charismatic men in authority; innocents in need of rescue; a slam-bam ending where the reader can't be certain of anything until the very last word. ( )
  laytonwoman3rd | Nov 29, 2021 |
Intriguing premie but not memorable. ( )
  melsbks | Jan 29, 2020 |
Exciting, tense and a fascinating look into the workings of cults. ( )
  sharoncville3579 | Jan 24, 2015 |
Not nearly as good as the Mary Russell series. I was really drawn into the protagonist's role in infiltrating a religious cult and was expecting a lot more out of the experience. I thought the book wrapped up too soon and too abruptly without resolution for the two children that Anne became attached to. Perhaps this opens the door to a series for Anne Waverly? I'd give it a chance if so. ( )
  jsalmeron | Dec 8, 2014 |
A thoroughly engaging story. ( )
  bsquaredinoz | Mar 31, 2013 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Called "one of the most original talents to emerge in the '90s" by Kirkus Reviews, award-winning author Laurie R. King delivers an intelligent, terrifying, engrossing drama of good and evil, unlike any she has written before....

A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. Until she learns of more than one hundred children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound....

Anne soon realizes that Change is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her back into their clutches...and to the razor's edge of danger.

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