Review: Interesting story, but . . .
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
An easy-going story about a young girl abused for 25 years and finally escaping after she watched an Oprah program advising women to leave the abusive situation.  My problem was how did Penny have the patience to wait for the ten years she was held as a prisoner before thinking about how to escape. That thought demolished the victim's credibility.The rest of the tale was made interesting by the twists and turns it took. Detective Joe Denali was likable but didn't do much detectiving. The author hid his apparent incompetency by eventually disclosing an ongoing secret FBI undercover operation and several personal excuses. And the forensic work took seemingly forever to be completed.The book should have had a better proofreader. The speech of different people needs to be put in separate paragraphs. Typos have to be caught. Fortunately these errors didn't slow down the pace. The dialogue was fine.In sum, it's an okay read for a lazy day.Barbara C. Johnson, author of Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice