All the Dangerous Things

This is a tense, voice-driven psychological thriller you can listen to the way you swap stories with a friend at 2 a.m. We follow Isabelle Drake, a once-steady mother whose toddler vanishes from his crib, and who then goes an entire year without a full night of sleep. She chases answers on true-crime stages, down midnight streets, and into the murk of her own memory—where the line between past and present slips like tidewater.

As a slick podcaster enters her life, a prayer-circle therapist smiles too sweetly, and a watchful neighbor sits through the night, Isabelle’s search becomes a study of the stories we tell to survive. We move back and forth—“Then” and “Now”—to a Southern childhood haunted by sleepwalking, a sister named Margaret, and a family secret no one dared say out loud.

Across these pages, love gets twisted by loss, and guilt becomes a lens that can warp anything into truth. Come for the mystery; stay for the slow, breath-stealing reveal of why the mind will risk everything to protect the heart.

• Fans of psychological thrillers that blur memory, motive, and truth
• Listeners who loved Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, or Megan Miranda
• Book clubs ready to debate motherhood, grief, and unreliable narrators

Stacy Willingham is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark. A former copywriter and brand strategist, she earned a B.A. in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and an M.F.A. in writing from Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work has been translated into 30+ languages. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband and Labradoodle.