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Title: Good but not great
Review: The story is good and unfolds (or unravels) very well. Definitely a page turner and quite exciting, but the dialog is painfully dated and the characters are obnoxious. Some characters have unnecessarily lengthy back stories while others are wholly two-dimensional. BUT the lame dialog doesn't take away from the gripping and suspenseful plot. Lois Duncan is a classic!
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