If you like real suspense look elsewhere. FBI Thriller? Not in your wildest of dreams. This book should have been entitled: "A Day in the Life of the Waltons." I'm sure real FBI agents spend time bonding with a cop's family and leaky dog while trying to solve a crime. The characters of the two sons were closer to pre-schoolers. The only suspense was how long before I quit reading the book. I never did finish it.
Save your money I have read a lot of mysteries, many not great, but this one has to be one of the most boring, unsatisfying ones to come along. The plot, which could have provided some interest, often got lost as she tried to show family dynamics, and the ending, as others have said, was unfounded and anticlimactic. If this were a TV show, you'd turn it off after the first 20 minutes so save your money,Good book - until you got to the end. I picked up this book at the bookstore because the monthly book guide said it was a "guaranteed great read." Well, I started the book, and it WAS a pretty good book - until I got to the end where it was as if the author was running out of time or something and didn't connect all of her dots. The ending was VERY unsatisfying. None of the questions were really answered - portions of the mystery that seem to be the most important are just glossed over with literally something like a "we don't know what happened" perspective. I could not believe that the author would go to the trouble to write such a complex and detailed story - a story that had potential to be a great story - and then not bother to finish it. I liked the book, but the ending was so bad that I it just ruined the whole thing for me. I have never read any of Catherine Coulter's books before this one, but if this is one of her best, I would hate to read her worst.
