George does a fine job with Andrea and her growing sense of unease and the pacing is super, building up to a surprising denouement. I do not want to go into the plot as that is half the fun, but the small town of Marissa has quite a little secret, and it is a dark one. Matt immerses himself in his new job, but Andrea keeps picking up rocks and finding something ugly. Matt's son (Andrea's step son) starts acting strangely, going for long walks in the woods alone. We know something is wrong, or at least perverse in the town pretty early. The small town horror trope has been done to death, but George gives it a great spin. But after Andrea wraps things up in the city and arrives in Marissa, things start going down hill. Now, Matt (Andrea's husband) was born and raised in Marissa, and he joins the two man police force in the tiny town.
After a few months of this, Andrea, looking in the want ads, find a position for him in Marissa. Flash forward 25 years or so, and Andrea is now married to a cop in the Twin Cities, but after he kills a young boy in an alley, he is crushed by guilt and finds refuge in a bottle. Andrea's parents fled the small Minnesota town of Marissa when she was a child because, as the prologue tells us, she was playing as a child with some kind of spirit she called the 'dark horsy' and her parents were terrified.
First published by Zebra in 1990, Dark Reunion revolves around Andrea. While this novel could have been more fleshed out, George really nailed the small-town horror vibe.
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