In The Dark by Richard Laymon is a great book! This book is about a librarian who finds an envelope sitting on her chair with her name on it. Inside these envelopes are notes and money. The notes are clues for where she find the next envelope and what she has to do to get it. The money doubles in every envelope and the risks get harder and are more life threatening than the last. The person sending these notes to Jane, the librarian, calls himself, "MOG" or Master of Games.
At first Jane is having fun doing the tasks "MOG" gives her and she is loving the amount of cash she is making from doing what "MOG" wants. However, as the story progresses, the tasks get harder and riskier. In the beginning, Jane meets a man at the library and he decides to help her with these tasks. He helps her with the first one but then "MOG" finds out and says no more help from the man Jane is starting to fall in love with. "MOG" starts to look dangerous as he can get in and out of Jane's house without her knowing. He even gets in while she is sleeping and writes messages on her stomach! He does all of this without her knowledge while she is asleep.
As the end of the story comes, Jane decides she does not want to play games with "MOG" anymore but "MOG" is not going to let that happen. Jane decides she needs to get rid of "MOG" once and for all but it proves to be a very difficult task.
Once you start reading this book, you will not want to put it down until it is over. In The Dark is a great book that has you on the edge of your seat with suspense and wonder.
Check out Richard Laymon's website at www.rlk.cjb.net
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