One year ago, Isabelle Drake’s life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. #ReadWithPride: Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden Will you be picking up All the Dangerous Things? Tell us in the comments below!

Fans of her debut novel, A Flicker in the Dark, will find everything they loved about Willingham’s writing back again in All The Dangerous Things.Īll the Dangerous Things is available from Amazon, Book Depository, and other good book retailers, like your local bookstore, as of January 10th 2023. Every detail is intricately plotted and brings the reader full circle, turning pages faster and faster. While All the Dangerous Things is full of everything that is current and “now,” true crime conventions, podcasts, and social media taunts, but these are all used with great benefit in this story, never as clichés or buzzwords. Even readers who do not traditionally like “dual time-line” stories will find themselves engaged with these glimpses into the character’s past, as solutions and answers dangle just out of reach. There is a feeling of dread and danger long before the details of the past are revealed to the reader, and it truly sets these sections apart. These passages have such an incredible sense of atmosphere as the stifling stillness of the marsh creates a tension all its own.

Interspersed throughout the current situation that Isabelle is dealing with, the reader sees glimpses from her childhood in Beaufort, South Carolina. But so far this has all been to no avail. She speaks at true crime conventions, she has her own suspect list and details of all of her neighbours, and frequently checks in with the assigned detective. Isabelle’s desperate need to find her child, and complete refusal to accept the unsolved, cold case labels she hears from detectives has ended her marriage, is taking a serious and significant toll on her health, and may even be destroying her sanity, but she has continued to do everything in her power to keep the search going. As tragic as her circumstances are, for Isabelle this is compounded by hazy memories of her childhood where she fears some of her answers may be hiding – and they may be devastating. Told through two timelines that are exquisitely woven together throughout, Willingham tells the story of Isabelle Drake, a mother who is living through an unfathomable nightmare as it is now the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of her young son, literally taken without a trace. Full of figurative language that absolutely drips with atmosphere and emotion, Stacy Willingham creates an engrossing, tension-filled mystery in her new psychological suspense thriller, All The Dangerous Things.

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