I had high hopes for this book after picking it up from my local library. It had all the ingredients of making a wonderful "thriller" as it claims on the book cover. It started out ok, but then lagged on and on for what seemed like an eternity (the small print doesn't help matters either). I really began losing interest during the numerous flashbacks...which I normally would have nothing against, when used sparingly. Ms. Carr seemed to have spaced out however when writing them. She goes on endlessly about things we have either read previously during another flashback, or care nothing about altogether! I believe it took away whatever suspense there could have been. Also, not enough time was spent on the actual stalker. I felt like that character was lost in the woods somewhere while in the meantime, we get more than our fair share of the local townsfolk and their boring life stories. Who cares about them?! Focus more attention on the stalker and the intended victim. It seems Ms Carr was a little more interested in building up all the personal histories rather than concentrating on building up the actual suspense. To sum this book up in a nutshell...Don't waste your time.

I enjoyed this book having read it when it was first published and at that time, it was a thriller. Not too many novels were out about stalkers and the terror someone can create in one scene. I remember the bathroom scene and the heroine realizing "he" had been in her house because the toilet seat was up. Later, in the movie with Julia Roberts called Sleeping with the Enemy, she showed her terror with the towels being out of place. Robyn Carr was ahead of her time and that gives this book a four star rating to me.