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Title: Not gripping
Review: I was disappointed in this book. The characterizations of the protagonist and his wife are so limited that I assume they must have been introduced in some earlier work, one I haven't read. Some subsidiary characters were better described, but over all the book lacked cohesiveness. The present day kidnapping was much less well developed than the Lindberg story (which was well presented) and the motivation for the current crime seems extraordinarily contrived. Moreover, unlike the Lindbergs, the husband and wife never really seemed to miss the baby!
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