Whoever gave this book more than 3 stars must be, and I am sorry to say this, a fool. This book is a piece of junk. As some of the other reviewers said, it is a drama, and not a thriller. I've read a few of her books, and let me tell you, I've had it with her and her men hating books. I don't understand why she has to hate men so much and yet she is married to one. "I am a woman, this is a man's world" Bla, bla bla, shut up already. We have more control oven men here in the USA, more than women have control over men in any other country. A person that hates men this much ought to be a lesbian, who I have much more respect for than somebody that is married to a man yet does nothing but bash the sex. There isn't a book written by joy fielding that it doesn't involve a husband/boyfriend who is a wife bitter, a cheater or a child molester. It's gotten old, and I thin it is time for her to pick a new, fresh, less hateful topic for her up-coming books. And Jamie, how stupid do you have to be to meet a stranger in a bar, take him home that night, screw him, quit your job the next morning, and go on a trip with him across the country without asking a question???? No wonder there are so many Natialee Holloways and other young women that get killed every day by strangers in the USA due to this kind of stupidity.

***Please don't waste your money on this junk. If you want to read a good mystery/thriller read some books written by Mary Higgins Clark, Wendy Corsi Staub, Patricia MacDonals, Carleen Thompson and Sidney Sheldon. E-mail me and I would be happy to recommend some of their best novels.***********

And a message for Joy Fielding: Sweetheart not all men are monsters. My parents have been together for 30 years, and you know why, because my parents are eastern Europeans. I was also born there, moved here with my family when I was little. The reason the divorce rate in eastern Europe is less than 2 percent, is because over there the woman is a woman, feminine and gentle, and a man is a man, the head of the household and everybody knows their place in the household.

I really enjoyed this book. I have read just about every book Fielding has written and she used to be one of my favorite writers. Her early novels were the suspense equivilant to Olivia Goldsmith's more chick-litty variety of "girls getting back and the men who did them wrong" However, Fielding lost me with the two most recent books Grand Avenue and The First Time, I couldn't seem to get into either of those. Mad River Road was a refreshing step back to the books of her early years, though the formula she used back then is absent, I think thats a good thing. The worst thing an author can do is become formulaic. Mad River Road sucked me right in and I had trouble putting it down. I recommend it to those of you who like that edge your seat variety of writing.