DON'T SPEAK TO STRANGERS (Marion Rosen) - February 9/11

This passable book feels like an episode of Law & Order: SVU; it gets the job done but just barely. It's not especially well written and it's often laughably stupid (ie the FBI agent's schoolgirl crush on her superior), but there are a few tense sequences sprinkled here and there. The trashiness of the book ensures that the references to the girl's ongoing rape feel exploitative and unnecessary, and the ending is way, way too abrupt (really? We don't get to see Jonathan reunite with his parents? WTF?) **1/2 out of ****