Jack Olsen’s style is riveting and chilling and comprehensive. In this twisted love story, Cynthia Ray is so bizarrely unbalanced, it would be unbelievable as fiction. The really scary thing is, we have all encountered people like this to some degree, and are naturally repelled by their behavior. But when the person is in your immediate family, it is extremely difficult to know how to handle the deceit and manipulation. How many of us would be able to recognize a cold blooded killer in our midst?