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Title: An excellent, twisty, compulsive page-turner.
Review: An engrossing tale of kidnap and murder, and the varying flavors of guilt of surviving friends and relatives. This is a slightly over-ambitious, but compelling tale. I could not put it down. But a few flaws emerge. I think Ali Cray, one of the main characters of the novel, is never developed well enough that the reader can identify with her, and there are a couple of red herrings that are never clarified. A vanished ransom, and political sub-plot clutter the book to little purpose.But still a very good mystery, with a couple of beautiful surprizes.
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