Dark and Shallow Lies has all the trappings of a good gothic mystery. Atmospheric setting, an underlying sense of unease and imbalance, a protagonist that knows just enough to be part of the story and in danger. Grey may not have the psychic abilities of everyone else in town, but she's perfectly stuck in between not knowing and knowing too much when she makes her annual summer return to La Cachette after her best friend Elora disappears without a trace.