Rating: 
Summary: Suspenseful but one dimensional
Review: this was my first North Paterson audio book and while I was pulled into the story I felt after it was over that it left a bad taste in my mouth. As another reviewer stated here Chris Paget and his lover/associate Terri are just too smug for my liking. The no can do any wrong couple that supposedly sacrifices much to put things right. I do confess that Terri's ex husband Richie was one of the worst scum to ever grace the pages of fiction literature his opposites however were too self righteous for my taste. In fact the only character which was three dimensional was Elena the little girl and perhaps even Rosa Terri's mother. The story does grip you and you want to finish the book if only to find out what happens at the end but in the end you will not admire the main characters much when you have finished. The sex abuse angle was interesting though I could not believe Terri was so stupid not to notice it from the start. Chris's son Carlos was annoying to no end and the political side plot was a complete yawn. I have one more North Patterson book that I purchased, "No safe Place," I hope that one will be suspenseful without presenting such black and white characters as there were in this one. This book contains three CDs and is narrated by Ken Howard. He does a good job but his female voices could be improved upon.
Rating:
Summary: Suspenseful but one dimensional
Review: this was my first North Paterson audio book and while I was pulled into the story I felt after it was over that it left a bad taste in my mouth. As another reviewer stated here Chris Paget and his lover/associate Terri are just too smug for my liking. The no can do any wrong couple that supposedly sacrifices much to put things right. I do confess that Terri's ex husband Richie was one of the worst scum to ever grace the pages of fiction literature his opposites however were too self righteous for my taste. In fact the only character which was three dimensional was Elena the little girl and perhaps even Rosa Terri's mother. The story does grip you and you want to finish the book if only to find out what happens at the end but in the end you will not admire the main characters much when you have finished. The sex abuse angle was interesting though I could not believe Terri was so stupid not to notice it from the start. Chris's son Carlos was annoying to no end and the political side plot was a complete yawn. I have one more North Patterson book that I purchased, "No safe Place," I hope that one will be suspenseful without presenting such black and white characters as there were in this one. This book contains three CDs and is narrated by Ken Howard. He does a good job but his female voices could be improved upon.
Rating: 
Summary: a thinking person's thriller
Review: What I loved most about this book was the finely tuned, intelligent dialogue between the characters. If you're looking for action or gore, you won't find it here. But if you want an apparently simple murder mystery that turns out to be not so simple after all, this is a great read. Adding depth to the complexity of the whodunnit is the sub-plot of how the world is different through the eyes of children, how some of us stay children most of our lives, and the ways in which we often live in blindness to these, and other truths of human experience.
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