I've never read a Mary Higgins Clark book before, and yes, they're clean as a whistle but BORING! I could barely make it threw the "page turner". I didn't care who the killer was because I didn't care about any of the characters and her style of writing is so boring. Maybe I would have liked her in, say, junior high. But even then I would have known the book was an easy read. I found myself hoping her main character Jean would be knocked off, big surprise, she wasn't!!! Are all her main characters kind, dumb, well-educated good people? I won't read anymore of her books to find out. If I had to chose between reading another of her books or staring at a wall for an equal amount of time, I'd pick staring at the wall. At least then an original thought or a shred of human insight might pop into my brain.