Reviews for Cry from the Dark

The average rating for Cry from the Dark based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-12 00:00:00 James Fletcher I have loved most of Robert Barnard's mysteries, but this one just didn't sound like him; there was too much explaining, a protagonist who wasn't very likable, and jumping back and forth between contemporary Britain and Australia of many years before didn't ring true. I don't know whether Barnard spent time in Australia, but much of the dialogue didn't seem right. And then the mystery of why someone would be so interested in Bettina's memoir that she is writing, with details of the night she was raped in her small Australian town. So obvious that it had to be someone from that time, and bringing her brother and her daughter (who she adopted out because she didn't want to be a mother? Really?) to England "coincidentally" didn't add to the mystery. It's beyond me why she would have continued her friendship with Hughie throughout their lives, knowing what he did to her.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-07 00:00:00 John M Alo It was well enough written, but I did not care for it, the ending solution did not resonate with the tenor of the whole at all.