The other characters just pop in and out of the story throughout. I didn't feel one way or the other for Ellen. I personally didn't like the character of Jay at all and thought he was creepy/stalking Ellen. There are too many characters to juggle in this one. We not only follow Ellen, we follow a true crime novelist (Jay Brooks) along with the young boy, his mother, his father, one of the neighbors, the local sheriff, and I know I am forgetting some people. With her boss ready to throw her under the bus at any moment, Ellen is walking a tightrope when the young boy suddenly reappears and refuses to speak about what happened to him. Ellen is trying a local professor in good standing in the community with a kidnapping and possible murder of a young boy (Josh Kirkwood). The main character (if you can call her that since you get many POVs in this one) is prosecutor Ellen North. The characters didn't grab me and the plot seemed nonsensical after a while. Honestly though, I don't think it would have helped. I had vague memories of reading book #1, so maybe it's my own fault for not re-reading that one first to go into this one fresh.
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