We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin

☆☆☆☆
ebook, 305 pages
Expected publication: August 11th 2020 by Random House Publishing, Ballantine Books
About the Book:
It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, her brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime. When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town’s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can’t look away. She shares a wound that won’t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru. Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past—the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town’s dark, violent mythology.

We Are All the Same in the Dark is the first book by Julia Heaberlin that I have had the pleasure to read. This book defiantly kept me on edge and turning the pages. There were twists and turns, some of them I did figure out but some I was totally blindsided by.

The story is one that is full of lies, deceit, betrayal and lots and lots of secrets. Most of the characters in this book I disliked in the best way possible and I believe that Ms. Heaberlin’s goal was for the reader to find most of the characters abhorrent, and in my opinion, she achieved this goal.

We Are All the Same in the Dark is well thought out, the writing was solid and flowed well. Ms. Heaberlin sets the scene thoroughly for this domestic thriller, and her character development is utterly devious. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book.

Thank you NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group, Ballantine Books and Julia Heaberlin for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an impartial review; all opinions are my own.

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