It’s always a dangerous game for publishers to attempt to compare a new offering with something as popular and stylized as True Detective, the hit TV series starring Colin Farrell. That’s a tough enough gig at any time but particular so for a debut novelist. In The Dark Inside, by Rod Reynolds, Charlie Yates is a disgraced New York reporter, banished by his vengeful boss to the do-nothing town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border to report on a spate of murders at a popular dating spot. So low has he fallen in his boss’s eyes that whatever story he files will probably only make it to the spike.