Dark Hours, by Sidney Williams. Crossroad Press. Hard copy
Print. 183 Pages.
Dark Hours is a relatively short novel but packs a lot of
tension and atmosphere into its space—and adds a good amount of action. I would
classify it as a horror/thriller. It does a good job of combining the best
attributes of both these genres.
Allison Rose is a student journalist at Pine College, a
small school that has seen better days. An escaped killer is suspected of
hiding out on the campus, where the woman he murdered once went to school.
Allison is contacted by someone who claims to be the killer, and he wants to
give her an exclusive interview of his side of the story.
But is it really the killer, or someone else playing a sick
joke? Along the way to answering that question, we find out that everyone seems
to have secrets in this game, and in a savage bout of cat and mouse played
through the basement level of the college library, all those secrets get
spilled while Allison struggles to survive against a dangerous and cunning foe.
