The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense launched her career with this "indescribably suspenseful" (San Francisco Chronicle) classic thriller following a woman whose past holds a terrible secret. Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal-until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again... Editorial Reviews "Indescribably suspenseful...a special kind of terror." - San Francisco Chronicle - From the Publisher It's every parent's nightmare-looking out to the backyard to find that the children are missing. To make matters worse, their mother, Nancy Harmon, becomes the prime suspect. Years before, her two children died under mysterious circumstances. Narrator Margot Dionne uses a soft, modulated voice to keep control of the mounting terror as Nancy searches for the toddlers. Dionne paces the building tension perfectly without giving in to the hysteria as Nancy closes in on the kidnapper, who is known to her, and alas, before the climax, to the listener as well. It's interesting to compare this early Higgins Clark work with the more mature work of the Queen of Suspense. M.T.B. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine - OCT/NOV 07 - AudioFile