This book was compelling enough to devour in one sitting. The tragic story of what took place after Carly's disappearance, along with a desire to find out what happened to her, definitely keeps the reader turning pages. Where I thought the story fell apart was in the end. The notion that Fanning could solve the case by interviewing a few people, people who, coincidentally, neither the police nor the family's private detective thought to speak with during the routine background investigation that would accompany this kid of case, is ludicrous.