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Book Review By Candice Griffin
Shadows in the Darkness by Elaine Cunningham

Gwen Gellman is an ex-police investigator. Now she's a private investigator specializing in finding missing teens. Gwen, known as Gigi to her friends, looks much younger than her 30-some years, and can see visions of what happened to people when she's holding something that the person had when they were taken/hurt/etc. Her parents were killed when she was young and she was raised by foster parents and homes.

A case of a missing daughter is brought to her, and in the course of investigations she is doing undercover work in a strip club, where the owner of the club recognizes great power on her, and asks her to look into another case for him. This case is to look for a missing heir to a family fortune, the parents were killed in a car crash 30ish years ago and the bodies disappeared out of the morgue.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy story on current Earth
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - finding a killer (criminal)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20 %
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 %
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10 %
If enemy is a group... - cult

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
If magical mental powers: - clairvoyant

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - long-lived adults
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
Earth setting: - current (early 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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