** spoiler alert ** I thought it was pretty good and a bit predictable but Clark doesn't give much background on the bad guy. You must accept that great hatred exists for his victims and proceed from there. Several near misses and coincidences move the predictable plot ( as i said before) along as well. There was some suspense in the tale. However, Clark's cookie-cutter writing formula all but guaranteed her trademark ending. A handful of sympathy cards are played as Clark weaves this tale. You're kinda required to feel sorry for asthma ridden Neil and dull Sharon as they endure their horrid confinement. At the same time we're supposed to believe good Ronald Thompson would be put to death so swiftly for a crime he committed when he was 17. Everyone who has any influence in the justice system turns a deaf ear down to the wire. It has to be that way so or Clark's story won't work.