From Publishers Weekly
Set in the Hollows, a secluded town about 100 miles outside New York
City, Unger's contemporary thriller offers solid entertainment, but
lacks the tension of her 2008 stand-alone, Black Out. Psychologist
Maggie Cooper and her husband, Det. Jones Cooper, disagree on how to
handle their rebellious son, 17-year-old Rick, who prefers to spend time
with his band or holed up with his girlfriend, Charlene Murray. When
Charlene disappears one night after a fight with her mother, Maggie and
Jones wonder if she ran off to Manhattan, but are reminded of the
disappearance 20 years earlier of Sarah Meyers, whose mutilated body was
found after she vanished on her way home from school. Though the
alleged killer confessed, there are still unanswered questions, and
Maggie and Jones find themselves forced to revisit the past as suspicion
falls on Rick. Since the Hollows is so small, characters continually
rehash secrets--and rumors--so that Unger relies too heavily on the
community's interconnectedness to bolster her plot.
