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Review title: Caricatures rather than characters
Product review: If you like your characters stereotyped - the downtrodden, ground-breaking female detective with parental and trust issues; the strong, grieving chief of police; the narcissistic sheriff; the interfering media; and of course desperate parents and obvious bad guys - this is the book for you. Top it off with an ending that requires reading a sequel, and you have the makings of frustrating read, very similar to the sexual tension she attempts to build between the protagonists.Sure Hoag writes well but that does not compensate for characters you get sick of in a place you don't care about orbiting around unresolved "mystery."
