a drop dead frightening novel about a town where teenage girls are disappearing, where an idylllic beach community is terrorized, and where one reporter must get to the truth to protect her family.

Mary Jane Clark delivers another great mystery involving one of the KEY News team.

The mystery itself is riveting, Clark shows the reader insight into the world of TV news shows, and the characters are great.

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OK mystery - hard to care about the characters.

This book was very good. This was a fast moving story with great suspense. Loved it

A favorite of Mary Jane Clark's. Finished in a day!

For Diane Mayfield, the last few months of her life have been spent trying to keep her children, Michelle and Anthony, on an even keel. After her husband was sentenced to prison for his part in the financial upheaval of a company who cooked its books, she's been the sole parent and money-maker in a family that once had it all. Her position with KEY News as a correspondent for its Hourglass newsmagazine forces her to give up the family's vacation to the Grand Canyon and instead haul her kids and her 17-years younger sister, Emily, to the New Jersey seashore town of Ocean Grove. Her assignment? Interview Leslie Patterson, a woman who police believe "cried wolf" about her recent disappearance.

Leslie has a past that includes therapies for anorexia and harming herself physically, and the police are reluctant to take her claims seriously. Leslie states that she was abducted by an unknown attacker, and although not raped, was forced to dance with the man over a period of days before a security guard found her, bound and gagged, on the grounds of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Orignally a religion-based commune type establishment, the Association meets every year on Ocean Grove's shore to spen the summer in their tents.

But as another girl disappears, both the local police and Diane start to believe that something more sinister is at work than a trouble young woman staging her own disappearance. As Diane delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, her own family becomes a target for the disturbed individuals that are harassing the tranquility of this once calm sea-side town.

Mary Jane Clark has deftly penned another entertaining thriller. Her characters are all true-to-life and believable, and will have you turning pages until you figure out the mystery.

I enjoyed this book from page one until the very last page. It has just the right of suspense!

Network news correspondent Diane Mayfield wants to take her kids to the Grand Canyon for an overdue vacation. Unfortunately, her producer has other plans. Diane is to cover a story about a young woman who went missing three days.

Leslie Patterson has reappeared with a terrifying tale. She has been kidnapped and forced to dance, while gagged and bound, with her captor. Police officials suspect Leslie is lying to cover up for running away.

Diane hopes to find time to relax with her kids, but the story gets complicated when another young woman disappears. Then another. The locals are frightened, fingers are pointing in all directions, and Diane is forced to spend all her time working the story.

What Diane doesn't know is that this news story will place someone a loved one in great danger.

Vivid descriptions throughout the book help to place readers in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and in the shoes of Clark's well-drawn characters. The action is realistic; if a little slow at times.

Clark also incorporates a timely message about the importance of parents being in touch with their children. The main focus here is on eating disorders--several characters suffer from anorexia in this novel--the signs, and a parent's role. While this is a major theme in this book, it is not overly preachy.

Mystery fans will like this book. Although not a thriller, there is enough suspense to engage the reader as the plot rolls forward, and Clark keeps the reader guessing until the end.

This was a great book!!! I really enjoyed it!!!!!

Someone at the New Jersey Shore is taking women and blindfolding them and making them dance in the dark or are they?

Very good book!

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