A Flicker in the Dark

I've been around this genre a little too long for this one. Yes, well written, great back story set in Louisiana- in a town whose pride is in being the crawfish capitol- with all the great small town character that implies. The issue I have is that with a finite cast of characters the reader easily figures out what the protagonist cannot. And speaking of the protagonist- she is quite the flawed character, which is not a bad thing, it's actually a solid layer, just reader beware. This serial killer story is messy. While I easily figured out who the bad guy was, I really felt the characters as the writer drew them. In particular, the teenage victims. They jumped off the page.