A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights in a reserved seat giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day she savages them with words sharper than a knife. Angling for a promotion she reluctantly agrees to an interview a conversation that reveals secrets she thought she had long since buried. Then her interviewer disappears and she learns--from his devastated fiancee--that she was the last person to have seen him alive. When the police refuse to investigate Vivian does what she promised herself she would never do again: she plays a part. Assuming the role of amateur detective she turns her critical gaze toward an unsanitary private eye a sketchy internet startup a threatening financier fake blood and one very real corpse. As she nears the final act she finds that the boundaries between theater and the real world are more tenuous and more dangerous than even she could have believed... Gripping propulsive and shot through with menace and dark glamor Alexis Soloskis Here in the Dark takes us behind the scenes of New York theater lifting the curtain on the lies we tell ourselves and each other.
