ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, April 21, 1996                 TAG: 9604230068
SECTION: BOOKS                    PAGE: 4    EDITION: METRO 
                                             TYPE: BOOK REVIEW 
SOURCE: REVIEWED BY JUDY KWELLER 

SEQUEL TO `NIGHT SINS' THRILLS

GUILTY AS SIN. By Tami Hoag. Bantam. $21.95.

Although you could read and enjoy it on its own, "Guilty As Sin" picks up where "Night Sins" leaves off. I found this novel of sinister child abductors and molesters in a bucolic Minnesota town as chilling and frightening as its predecessor.

Hoag creates very personable, well-developed characters that you really care about, even the evil ones. Her plots are stunning in their inexorable and suspenseful pace. I read "Guilty As Sin" with that clammy feeling of knowing that something terrible and out-of-control was going to happen. But, once I picked the thriller up, I couldn't put it down.

Judy Kweller is a free-lance writer and special events coordinator.

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