Here in the Dark -- Alexis Soloski, Hardcover

A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance

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Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day, she savages them, with words sharper than a knife.

Angling for a promotion, she reluctantly agrees to an interview, a conversation that reveals secrets she thought she had long since buried. Then her interviewer disappears and she learns―from his devastated fiancée―that she was the last person to have seen him alive. When the police refuse to investigate, Vivian does what she promised herself she would never do again: she plays a part. Assuming the role of amateur detective, she turns her critical gaze toward an unsanitary private eye, a sketchy internet startup, a threatening financier, fake blood, and one very real corpse. As she nears the final act, she finds that the boundaries between theater and the real world are more tenuous and more dangerous than even she could have believed. . .

Gripping, propulsive, and shot through with menace and dark glamor, Alexis Soloski's Here in the Dark takes us behind the scenes of New York theater, lifting the curtain on the lies we tell ourselves and each other.

Author: Alexis Soloski
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 12/05/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781250882943

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2023 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2023
Booklist 10/01/2023 pg. 31
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2023
BookPage 12/01/2023

About the Author
Alexis Soloski is a prize-winning New York Times theater critic and a former lead theater critic at Village Voice. She has taught at Barnard College and at Columbia University, where she earned her PhD in Theater. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.