Helpful Score: 3
This is your typical Maggie Shayne book, TERRIFIC!! I was so shocked at the ending of this story, it blew me away! Not at all who I expected at the end. Maggie Shayne is an excellent writer. I cannot wait for her to write another murder mystery type of book. She writes some great vamp books too.
Helpful Score: 2
After promising a distraught mother he'd find her missing children, Detective Vince O'Mally discovers their mutilated corpses in an abandoned house. Tormented by images of the horrific crime scene, Vince is forced to quit the case by his superiors and take a vacation. Instead, Vince heads to Dilmun, a small town in upstate New York, to follow up a seemingly insignificant lead. At the town's tiny police department, Vince meets Holly Newman, a pretty but troubled woman who has never recovered from losing her own sister to a child killer more than twenty years ago. Convinced the cases are connected, Vince pushes Holly to recall long buried memories; in the process, he falls in love with her. With a killer on their trail and another child's abduction augmenting their sense of urgency, Holly and Vince team up with the local police and the FBI to track down the killer.
Helpful Score: 2
Average thriller. Beware, though: violence against children and some juicy sex between the adult protagonists. Part of the ending is predictable, but the who-done-it part is a surprise.
Helpful Score: 1
Fast-paced and interesting. Not surprising, but enjoyable.
Helpful Score: 1
Keeps you guessing until the end.
