If you like Karin Slaughter's often gritty, violent, graphic Thrillers, George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, brutal multi-year power struggles minus the supernatural, and Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, then Mersaidee Soules' debut psychological thriller, Viola Ted, book one in A Viola Ted Saga, might interest you!
Book One, Viola Ted, set in a small town in the 90s, features an atmospheric, character-driven style, as seen in David Lynch's Twin Peaks. This dark mystery follows a complex, fast-paced, deeply traumatized individual's determination to uncover her mother's secret past after Viola is trapped by a bad man, and unexpected violence ensues in this raw, unflinching, science-rooted thriller.
Following a second suspicious death in her low-income community, Viola Ted's coming-of-age is cut short in her small town when she's kidnapped by a serial killer who is searching for a missing book. Navigating lies and physical attacks, without a way out, Viola attempts to play his sinister cat-and-mouse games to stay alive. When she finds the book, she uncovers a terrible secret involving deceit and a conspiracy that dates back six hundred years.
To save herself, Viola may have to destroy her family. But can she?
