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** spoiler alert ** The story is appalling; this book is merely competent. A young Utah wife and mother is declared missing while her hot-headed husband and two sweet sons are out on an unusual winter camping trip. To the consternation of her family, the husband refuses to cooperate with the police.
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If I Can't Have You is good enough reading, but at times it drags, more from the inherent slowness and broad time span of the story itself than any deficit on the part of the authors. I wish more had been made of the fact that the frustratingly slow procedural results along the way came from the clash in philosophies and investigatory styles of the two government agencies at work: the police, who focused on looking for the missing wife and mother; and social services, which concerned itself with the welfare of the two little boys. The authors mention this clash, but do not really develop it. Otherwise, it's a good enough recount though the reader is warned at every turn when something gruesome is on the way -- what, we cannot imagine. It's that kind of book.