It’s the kind of story that reaches into your heart and makes you live every second with the characters. So I turn off my flashlight and let the blackness eat me alive.”īlending small-town supernatural thrills with a haunting coming-of-age murder mystery, this YA novel is so well crafted that it’s easy to lose whole hours of your life whilst reading it. There’s nowhere left to hide except inside the dark. We break out on to the wide-open flats, and I feel him closing in on me. Even with the wind and the driving rain, he’s all I hear. He’s tearing through the brush behind me. As a devastating storm builds, threatening the very fabric of the small bayou community, Grey races to find out the truth a truth that has the power to change everything she’s ever known and felt about her home and the people that inhabit it. Because if there’s one thing the deep, dark waters surrounding La Cachette are good at concealing, it’s secrets – and potentially murder too. She can’t understand why everyone’s acting so strangely, or why everyone seems to be hiding something. They each have varying psychic abilities and whilst her friends have lived with theirs for years, Grey is still trying to learn what hers might be.ĭetermined to find out what happened to Elora, Grey starts digging into the mystery surrounding that fateful night. Proclaimed as the ‘Psychic Capital of the World’, Grey and her childhood friends have always been special. Even before Elora’s sudden vanishing, La Cachette was never an ordinary town. Not just about the night of Elora’s disappearance, but way back into the past to when Grey was a child and everything – and everyone – around her started to unravel. Her best friend, Elora, has been missing for months and nobody seems to be telling the truth. When seventeen-year-old Grey makes her annual summer trip back to La Cachette, the tiny bayou town of her childhood, she knows it won’t be the same as her visits from past years. But this isn’t a novel of tiny, inconsequential secrets these are secrets so terrible and so unforgivable that they threaten to tear the characters and their already unstable hometown apart. And like all the best twisty, turny thrillers, it takes less than a chapter to hook readers in and the entire book to give up its dark mysteries. Like the ominous and isolated Louisiana bayou setting of her debut novel, Ginny Myers Sain’s Dark and Shallow Lies is a story that’s as alluring as it is unnerving and unfathomable.
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