A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark (***)

I didn't realize at first that this audiobook was the abridged version. I hate abridged versions. This book was okay, interesting. Likely the full version is even better. But the main character got on my nerves. She was so stupid! When you are the mother of two young children, and you actually CARE about your children, you don't run off and marry someone that you know absolutely nothing about after only knowing him a month (and only seeing him on weekends of that month at that!) and you don't allow him to adopt your children either (giving him just as much custody right over them as you have)! Not only that, but when she moves in with her new husband, it's right away apparent that he is nuts and possessive. We would have been talking annulment right away--I mean, after all, she's only known him a month, it's not like she's too attached to him! When he insists that she wear his dead mother's nightgown (and that's the only time he has "marital relations" with her), that should be a BIG red flag. That's just sick and why she goes along with it, is beyond me! Then she even goes further on my bad side, when she has a new baby, by saying that she will devote all her time and attention to this baby. What about her other kids? Though she seems like a nice person and a caring mother, she is really a picture of what NOT to do! If you can get past her ignorance and near neglect at putting her children in harm's way, it's a pretty good book. Ha, ha.