"All the Colors of the Dark," by Chris Whitaker

This novel has sold over 1,000,000 copies since its June 2024 publication. It was an instant best-seller and remained on the NYT Fiction Bestseller list through Spring of this year! It's also garnered a 4.3/5 star rating among 380,000 online reviewers, an impressively rarer feat. It's a shorter read for our busy Holiday Season, coming in at 600 pages. As our year-end closer, will our book club also enjoy this novel? 🎄

From Goodreads:

From the New York Times-bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that spans decades.

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.

When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy with one eye, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.

Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding light of hope.