It Only Takes a Moment
by Mary Jane Clark
William Morrow, July 29, 2008, $24.95

Eliza Blake is a well-known TV news host whose life has become an open book. She’s acquired lots of adoring fans, but also a few detractors who criticize her for not spending more time with her seven-year-old daughter, Janie. As a widowed single parent, Eliza is sensitive to criticism about her mothering; and as such, she is wracked with self-recrimination when Janie is abducted from summer day camp. Two good friends from work, her producer Annabelle and cameraman B.J., come to her aid to solve a crime that will chill all parents to the bone.

Mary Jane Clark’s extensive background as a writer and producer for CBS News gives her insider knowledge about the broadcast news business. This is the second in Clark’s Sunrise Suspense Society series, following When Day Breaks (2007), in which Eliza Blake and her coworkers use the tools of their trade to solve mysteries that touch their lives. It Only Takes a Moment takes only a moment to read, and has the depth of the nightly news, but it still manages unexpected twists that confound conclusions that once seemed obvious.—Verna Suit

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