Paul L. (Paucle) reviewed on 4/9/2011 + 19 more book reviews

This is my first Mary Willis Walker book and I'll look for more. While the story is not exactly as spine-tingly and chilling as the blurbs promise, she tells a good story that keeps you interested. Her protagonist (Katherine)is exceedingly easy to feel compassion for, and there are just enough clues in the mystery to allow a very clever person (for the record, I'm not one of them) to solve it.

The best thing is she builds up this big family-secret background story and really delivers on it. Too many times a writer will allude to one and my reaction is basically, "That's it? Who GAF?"

It's a little dated (over 20 years old now) and that rears up glaringly a couple times. Once the investigation gets delayed by lack of research/ info that we'd be able to google in seconds, and another time Kate has to wait for the one hour photo place to open the next day to wait (again) to get some proof developed. No $20 digital cameras back then!

So, not exactly a masterpiece, but a very satisfying story that doesn't disappoint.

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