A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

Twenty years after her father’s arrest, a psychologist faces a terrifying reality: someone is recreating his crimes girl by girl.

Chloe Davis spent twenty years trying to outrun the summer she turned twelve—the year her father confessed to murdering six teenage girls in their small Louisiana town. Now a psychologist in Baton Rouge, she’s finally curated a life of stability and is only weeks away from her wedding. But that fragile peace shatters when a local girl vanishes, followed by another. The patterns are too precise to be a coincidence, and the familiar dread of her childhood comes rushing back. Chloe is forced into a corner: she must decide if she is truly unmasking a copycat or if her own trauma is finally making her see monsters in the shadows. A Flicker in the Dark is a suffocating Southern thriller about the secrets we inherit and the high cost of looking back.