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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Good ride, predictable ending. |
| Sarah Mason may have become a workaholic since the disappearance of her five year old seven years ago but she still has a dog to feed. That late night run down to the local shop for dog food places the assistant district attorney smack in the middle of a hold up. As the tacky little drama plays itself out, Sarah is stricken by the sight of a young girl hiding out underneath a table, unseen to the robbers. In her efforts to save the girl from being shot along with the cashier, Sarah takes a bullet herself.
When Sarah comes to in the safe arms of paramedics it's chilling to find out that the girl has gone and no one knows who it is she is talking about. It becomes Sarah's mission to find this little girl, once again taking on local authorities and with the help of her best friend, private investigator Jake Hogan, re-visiting some very dark places. When the call comes from her presumed dead little daughter in the middle of the night, Sarah goes from determined to full out panic in a heartbeat. If romantic suspense is your bag, you've already heard of Karen Robards. A good balance of the mystery and the romantic relationship that will occur somewhere in her novels is employed successfully once again. It's predictable, but the romantic inclusion is just enough and not too distracting as to the reason why our heroine is in jeopardy in the first place. With the mix of plot types it is somewhat of a tightrope effort from authors in this genre to get it right without sacrificing too much to either camp. Too much of the slush and we're annoyed with the heroine; too much action, the romantics feel they aren't getting to know their characters well enough. Remember the endings with romantic novels? They're pretty much all the same. With crime and mystery you don't always need the happies and this is where VANISHED falls down in its efforts not to horrify its readers too much at the conclusion of the read. Ms Robards offers a very good story here and there's more than one giant tug at your heartstrings with the thought of your child going missing in any way close as to what happens with daughter in this novel. This genre took its successful spin away from mainstream romantic fiction (paperback) novels a long time ago and Ms Robards with her latest novel, VANISHED, is doing very nicely right along with it. |
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