A New York Times bestselling author, Mary Jane Clark, turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting ground. When a girl claims to have been abducted, no one believes her. At least, not until a body turns up, gagged and bound...Full of twists, turns, and terrifyingly real danger, "Dancing in the Dark" is Mary Jane Clark's most suspenseful thriller yet.
I wasn’t particularly thrilled with this. It wasn’t bad, per se, it just didn’t excite me. The mystery is well-enough constructed that I was surprised by who the bad guy was, but I never really connected with Diane or her kids. She was always the victim, and I just found nothing about her to be the least bit interesting, not even her jailed husband. Her daughter was even worse — stereotype, through and through.
The part that really rubbed me wrong was the undertone the entire book had about eating disorders. It felt like the author had an agenda to push, and it was really forced. If you want to teach us something about eating disorders, please don’t make every teenaged girl in the story have one.
This was the first Mary Jane Clark I’ve read, and I don’t think I’ll jump at reading another.
