I really hope that Mary Higgins Clark reads these reviews!I am a librarian, and hear many comments when patrons return their books.Many readers just plan gave up on this book because they couldn't keep the multitude of characters straight.I am a regular Mary Higgins Clark reader, so I stuck with it. However, I had to make myself a chart of the characters to use as a bookmark!There are, to the best of my count, 37 characters. I wondered why she even bothered to name some of them, as they did not advance the plot.I hope Mary reads this! She needs to know that if she is to retain her readership, she needs to meet the needs of the reader, and keeping track of so many characters is work, not leisure.