Review #104
Parents will find this compulsive page-turner particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he's less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos.
How do you weigh a child's privacy against a parent's right to know? How do you differentiate normal teenage rebelliousness from out-of-control behavior? When and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear? Other issues include single parenting; career versus family; marital honesty; and how much information you should share with a child at what age.
The Baye's son, Adam, delivers typically teen angst to his befuddled family. Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, after a friend's suicide by investing in a spyware program that will report every keystroke on Adam's personal computer. This way they can track his movements. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy. And then…Adam disappears.
This is a scary book, but well worth reading!
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