This book is what I like to call a "slow-starter". It started off rather boring, but eventually it did grab my attention. It took quite awhile for me to finish this book; mostly because I had so much trouble really getting into it in the beginning.

I found parts of this book a bit hard to follow as well. I have never cared as much for the third person omniscient point of view. It can get a little confusing when the book has several characters. Let me tell you, this book certainly has its fair share of characters. The book switches character's points of view so often that I may or may not have developed a sort of reading whiplash!

All of that being said, though, the characters were interesting enough to keep me going until the plot picked up. Once the plot became more interesting, which occurs about half way through, I found it difficult to put the book down.

If you are patient enough to make it through the first half, I do suggest that you read it. I believe you will find it worth the initial effort. ( )

good @ newscaster's inside life + mystery

While covering a hurricane that's moving up the Florida Coast, Cassie meets eleven-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota-a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe, will enable her to put her life back together. But nobody knows how fierce the coming storm will be. Nobody knows if a young woman's murderer will stop at nothing to keep the crime a secret. And nobody knows if Cassie will get out alive....

The clown had raped and murdered. Vencent found a ring with his detector at the beach and all of a sudden his life was in danger and those of ones he loved/new. His brother Marc (with encephilitis) was kidnapped. Cassie, a reporter that was transferred on her job for reporting a girl was raped moves closer to the truth. She discovered the truth and became the number one reporter again. ( )