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Review by Meerakat28 -- The Darkness at Decker Lake

Posted: 11 Aug 2020, 18:04
by Meerakat28
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Darkness at Decker Lake" by Martin H. Zuckerman.]
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4 out of 4 stars
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I read The Darkness at Decker Lake and it was a good read as a mystery/thriller book. The author kept the book interesting by integrating several story lines together. He did an excellent job of tying everything together at the end to close out the story. This book kept my interest and I even stayed up late a few nights to keep reading because I just couldn't put the book down!


The basic premise of the story is that a con man hears about a business venture from his father regarding friends of the family. He manages to talk them into a con along with some other business owners. They get greedy and looking for a way to get more money, plan to rid a remote community of its members. This all fine until a few accidents happen along the way leading to more chaos and cover-ups. There are characters that are good at hiding their past or their current occupations leaving a surprise when you find out who they really are. These characters play key roles in "bringing down the bad guys", so to speak.


Although a book doesn't necessarily have to have a "happy ending" I prefer books where things go well or badly depending on the character and how they treated others in the book. This book had a way of getting you on a character's side and not wanting anything bad to happen to them or you wanted other characters that you didn't like to "get theirs in the end". Not wanting to give away anything, this book has a good twist at the end and leaves you satisfied that in the end people really do get what they deserve.


I really enjoyed this book as the writing was clear and I didn't have to keep a dictionary on hand to look up unknown words. I really recommend this book and give it a 4 out of 4 rating. The main reason is the ease of reading and the flow of the story. Another reason is the ability of the story line to keep me interested. I have been known to start a book and after a few chapters realize that I'm not as interested as I thought I was initially. This book kept me so interested that as I mentioned previously, there were a couple nights where I stayed up reading until 2:00 or 3:00 AM.


If there was profanity in this book I didn't notice really. I recognized a couple usages of "bastard" or "hell" but nothing harder was noted. It wouldn't necessarily bother me if profanity is used in a book as long as it's relevant to the story line or to give the book substance. The Darkness at Decker Lake didn't really need anything additional to give it substance. The plot and twists and general flow of the book were very good and I look forward to reading Martin Zuckerman's next book.

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