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After Dark

A Thriller

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After Dark

By: Minka Kent
Narrated by: Hayden Bishop, Hannah Church
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She’s a pariah with a killer past. Her bid to escape it is nothing short of terrifying in a heart-pounding novel of suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent.

Afton Teachout has been an outcast in her small town for twenty years—ever since she was accused of murdering her mother’s lover in a blackout fit of rage. That is, if one believes the malicious lies.

Living with her grandmother, working a hotel night shift, and relying on pills to get a day’s sleep, Afton is due a little luck. It comes in the form of an unexpected financial windfall. With her newfound wealth, Afton sets a secret plan in motion to help her only friend, Sydney, flee a toxic husband. But the best intentions soon spin out of control.

Afton is getting unsettling calls from a restricted number, and someone has been lingering outside her home. As Sydney’s troubled marriage comes into focus, so does Afton’s past. Her second chance—for herself and for Sydney—isn’t what she dreamed of at all. In fact, it’s becoming a nightmare.

©2023 Nom de Plume, LLC. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Domestic Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Marriage Exciting Fiction Heartfelt Scary

Critic reviews

"Even readers who see the murder's inescapable solution coming long in advance will be deeply shaken when it arrives.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Unexpected Twists • Original Storyline • Engaging Narration • Fast-paced Thriller • Likable Protagonist
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Great book, I’d recommend! Love Minka Kent, this isn’t her best book, but it’s up there. Interesting twist.

I’d rate this a B+

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𝘼𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙗𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙖 𝙆𝙚𝙣𝙩

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5/5

🎧𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬🎧
🎙️𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 & 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩

Wow that was wild!!!! My head is still spinning with the twist at the end. This had me hooked from beginning to end! I had no idea the whole time what was going to happen 🙌🏻 highly recommend.

𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗥𝗕:
She’s a pariah with a killer past. Her bid to escape it is nothing short of terrifying in a heart-pounding novel of suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journalbestselling author Minka Kent.
Afton Teachout has been an outcast in her small town for twenty years—ever since she was accused of murdering her mother’s lover in a blackout fit of rage. That is, if one believes the malicious lies.
Living with her grandmother, working a hotel night shift, and relying on pills to get a day’s sleep, Afton is due a little luck. It comes in the form of an unexpected financial windfall. With her newfound wealth, Afton sets a secret plan in motion to help her only friend, Sydney, flee a toxic husband. But the best intentions soon spin out of control.
Afton is getting unsettling calls from a restricted number, and someone has been lingering outside her home. As Sydney’s troubled marriage comes into focus, so does Afton’s past. Her second chance—for herself and for Sydney—isn’t what she dreamed of at all. In fact, it’s becoming a nightmare.

That was wild!

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GREAT suspenseful and twisty. What a book! Keeps you guessing and you won’t put it down!!

So twisty!

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Although you kind of figure it out towards the end, it’s still a good story. There was one unexpected part of it that was surprising. Overall, good story!

Fast paced thriller

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I usually enjoy books by this author but this was exceptionally good. I thought the narrators were perfect for their characters. The story was interesting and the ending was very worth the listen.

I loved this book! More than other Minka Kent books.

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This was all around a great story. the twists were original, the characters rich & interesting, and the narration worked well. I was pleasantly surprised. Fun listen.

Surprising in the Best ways

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The narrator mispronounced so many medications and words it was painful! Do your research before you produce a book! As a narrator myself, I cringed at every mispronunciation. It wrecked the experience for me. Love the author, though.

Love the storyline.

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Really enjoying Minka’s books… wasn’t sure I’d like them but was pleasantly surprised and now I’m in a Minka book devour mode.

Pleasantly Surprised

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It's worth the read, and I enjoyed the story. It kept me engaged, but there were a couple of things that drove me nuts, one of which was the fact that the protagonist shelled out all that $$ without even having taken her ticket in. That was irrational in the worst way, and I can't see any reason for it other than to further the plot up to the first real twist, which I had seen coming from the start...so that didn't really work for me. Lot of irrational decisions by a lot of characters that required some suspension of disbelief, but I enjoyed the story enough to let it slide. I did see the end coming...knew who was responsible almost since the beginning as well. So story, great. Execution, a little meh. I'm glad I read it, though, because all in all, I was entertained, and it held my interest from start to finish. There was a huge red herring that was left unaddressed, however, and that's enough for me to take it down half a star.

Mild Spoiler that you'll only understand once you've read it: When one of the characters cleaned up for her friend, she implied that she had found something. The way she said it made it seem as if whatever she found somehow changed something significant...caused a significant issue that would need solving. It made it seem as if that something had to do with her husband. Then...the huge event came and went and the twist was revealed and nothing ever came of the thing she found, nor was it ever revealed what it was. If she was referring to the invitation in the drawer, that would make absolutely no sense, because she had already known about that and discussed it with her friend. So if that was it, it's an inconsistency. If it wasn't, it was a huge intentional red herring that was just thrown in haphazardly and never fleshed out, which is a huge no no for me. I did appreciate that there was never a scene with the guilty party had a long diatribe and laid out their dastardly plan, so I'll as back a quarter star. 3.25 out of 5 for me.

Enjoyable, but a little predictable

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Minka always knocks it out of the park with keeping you guessing through the trailing perspectives of the characters just for them to all collide in a smokeshow of an ending! Took me a little bit to get used to one of the characters voices in this particular book but overall she's done it again with a great novel!

The story line as always 110%

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