This was quite an interesting mystery with lots of twists and a real surprise at the end with the kidnapper being a whole different suspect. I thought I was reading a book by Carol Higgins Clark but liked this Clark better. She writes very well and kept me turning the pages as each chapter was short as in James Patterson books. Kept me reading and wondering what would happen next.

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Mary Jane Clark delivers another great mystery involving one of the KEY News team.

The mystery itself is riveting, Clark shows the reader insight into the world of TV news shows, and the characters are great.

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a drop dead frightening novel about a town where teenage girls are disappearing, where an idylllic beach community is terrorized, and where one reporter must get to the truth to protect her family.

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this was my first read of Mary Jane Clark's work and I was very impressed and will look for more of hers...this was a fun read because it had the right amount of suspense and the characters were all strong....touching on subjects that are topical as cutting and eating disorders it was very believable....

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OK mystery - hard to care about the characters.

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This book was very good. This was a fast moving story with great suspense. Loved it

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A favorite of Mary Jane Clark's. Finished in a day!

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Good book, interesting read

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For Diane Mayfield, the last few months of her life have been spent trying to keep her children, Michelle and Anthony, on an even keel. After her husband was sentenced to prison for his part in the financial upheaval of a company who cooked its books, she's been the sole parent and money-maker in a family that once had it all. Her position with KEY News as a correspondent for its Hourglass newsmagazine forces her to give up the family's vacation to the Grand Canyon and instead haul her kids and her 17-years younger sister, Emily, to the New Jersey seashore town of Ocean Grove. Her assignment? Interview Leslie Patterson, a woman who police believe "cried wolf" about her recent disappearance.

Leslie has a past that includes therapies for anorexia and harming herself physically, and the police are reluctant to take her claims seriously. Leslie states that she was abducted by an unknown attacker, and although not raped, was forced to dance with the man over a period of days before a security guard found her, bound and gagged, on the grounds of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Orignally a religion-based commune type establishment, the Association meets every year on Ocean Grove's shore to spen the summer in their tents.

But as another girl disappears, both the local police and Diane start to believe that something more sinister is at work than a trouble young woman staging her own disappearance. As Diane delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, her own family becomes a target for the disturbed individuals that are harassing the tranquility of this once calm sea-side town.

Mary Jane Clark has deftly penned another entertaining thriller. Her characters are all true-to-life and believable, and will have you turning pages until you figure out the mystery.

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Fast read that I didn't want to put down. I kept thinking that I knew 'Who Done It', and changing my mind. As with other books by this author, I was wrong in the end. Loved this book and look forward to reading more by Mary Jane Clar!

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