I like to get fluffy audio books to listen to on my commute, but this book was completely terrible. I would almost give it two stars because I did find that I needed to finish it for I don't know what reason. This was the first Mary Higgins Clark book I read and from the other reviews, I can see now that this was a mistake. An even bigger mistake was that before I even tried an MHC book, I read a truly dreadful novel by her daughter, Carol. This book is extremely repetitive. It could easily be at least a third shorter if she hadn't repeated the same information 500 times as if the reader could not remember a fact for more than three pages. The characters were all really flat and you didn't care about any of them. There was not much personality. It also seemed unlikely to me that so many law enforcement and fire investigators would remember the case of a woman who went missing 28 years prior from Manhattan off the top of their heads. Like in a small town, maybe. But in Manhattan? I even knew how it was going to end as soon as one piece of information was mentioned. And then the ending was very rushed. All these dumb side stories and romances that you didn't care about were all wrapped up real quick in the epilogue. Since I have read a book by Carol Higgins Clark which was similarly awful, I'm wondering if she is actually writing her mother's books for her now.