Cara comes to Leigh in the middle of the night and begs her to follow Gil. Leigh is reluctant, and assures Cara that an affair is not the only thing that would produce such odd behavior, but agrees to tail Gil the next morning. Leigh follows Gil to Cara's childhood home where he searches through his mother-in-law's mail and closets and then to the vet clinic Leigh's father runs where Gil confronts Leigh with the news that he is being blackmailed by Cara's long absent birth father Mason.

Mason, it seems, lords a secret over Cara's mother and is willing to release it to the world if he is not properly compensated. Leigh agrees to help Gil learn the possible cause of the blackmail and agrees to try and track Mason down before something happens to shake the foundation of Cara's happy marriage and even her whole life.

Never Kissed Goodnight is a well-paced, solidly plotted mystery. Tracking down the secret in Cara's mother's past, as well as her father and anyone else he may be involved with keeps Leigh very busy and requires some clever deduction on her part. All the answers are not immediately apparent, keeping the tension high through out most of the book.

Leigh is a very likable character and is to be admired for her willingness to help and stand by her family. Her one flaw in this book, though, would be ignoring her new husband Warren, who is running for public office and is very tolerant of his wife's extra-marital actives, and at times, the couple acts more like old pals than newlyweds.

Edie Claire has written about the suburbs of Pittsburgh in a way that makes it seem like a small, country town rather than a suburb of a large, industrial city. Leigh and Cara have some very helpful neighbors and close ties to the community, eager to help them through any crisis, and adding to an overall charming atmosphere.

--Jennifer Monahan Winberry