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Title: Ultimately unsatisfying
Review: While the plot is full of twists and turns, the characters never emerge beyond the two-dimesional. The author sets up complex relationships between the heroine and her father and daughter, but never develops them at all. The plot has large holes in it; the heroines actions are often inexplicable except in terms of advancing the plot. For example, a policeman comes to her door after her house has been ransacked and her daughter is missing, yet she fails to enlist his help, so that she can be alone when the killer attacks...So many threads of plot are left hanging that the story seems abandoned rather than concluded. Thumbs down.
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