Clare Kennedy regards McCarthy as 'a master storyteller' whose 'writing has the flavour of real life'. Her latest offering, Somebody's Crying, is a charatcer study that depicts various relationships between the young adults in a small town who are brought together through a murder. Each chapter is named after a character which allows McCarthy to 'tell the story through differing perspectives and adds 'complexity and detail' and Kennedy highly recommends the novel on the basis that it is 'entertaining, fast-paced and full of humanity' (13).