In All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker gives us a fascinating thriller and tale. The darkness of missing people and serial killers alongside the hope of love and friendship make this a true page turner and a novel I won’t soon forget. Patch, Saint, and Missy have my whole heart. All of the cast are well drawn and memorable. Read this novel as soon as you can for its literary significance and the experience offered, plus the realities it calls to mind. It’s fiction. Yet it’s real. And it’s a plea for us to do better for our children, our communities.

Some favorite quotes:

“Friendship was a difficult art to master.”

“Saint knew there was not always an exact moment when children turned to adults. For the lucky ones it was a long, hard-earned acceptance of responsibility and opportunity. But for her, and for Misty, the divide had been curt and fatal.”

“I just wanted to show you that sometimes things survive despite the harshest of odds.”

“Saint wanted to ask what it was like, to lose the thing that defined you. But perhaps she knew: it left you someone else. A stranger you had no choice but to tolerate, and see each day and feel and fear.”

“I want everything to mean something, to lead somewhere.”