I loved Sarah Barrie's Lexi Winter series, five star reads for me. (Links to those reviews below.) Barrie takes ordinary people and puts them in extraordinary situations and pushes them to their limits.
Beth Thompson is working through problems with her ex husband. She loves her job working at a nursing home caring for the residents.
Detective Sergeant Hex Rexford is staring down retirement. He is passionate about the case of a serial killer named the Witch Doctor whose victims have never been found.
Eve Harrington is a podcaster, her current investigative story is about mental healthcare and she is particularly interested in a local institute, Coast Sanctuary, and its practices.
Barrie's characters are passionate about what they do which makes them likeable. She pushes them all to their limits.
Dark Sanctuary is one dark, creepy story. As the three main characters' lives began to merge and the death count rose I was totally gripped by the story.
Dark Sanctuary is not only a gritty police procedural it also highlights domestic abuse, stalking and mental health care. Barrie raises pertinent questions such as, are serial killers born or raised and when is a mental health patient deemed fit enough to re-enter society.
Dark Sanctuary is filled with suspense and jaw-dropping twists. If you like your crime dark, verging on horror, Dark Sanctuary is a must read.
My four star rating reflects the fact that this was just a little too gory, freaky, scary for me. 😨
My rating 4 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Publisher: HQ Fiction
Publication date: 28th April 2026
Genre: Crime
Pages: 368
RRP: $32.99AU
Source: Courtesy of the publisher
Other books I've read by Sarah Barrie
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