What is the author's style in The Voice on the Radio by Caroline B. Cooney?

"Whatever Happened to Janie?" is written in a simple and straightforward style, allowing the story line and the emotional content to carry the reader through from beginning to end. The author does a good job of separating the locations used from the opulent and financially secure Johnson and Shields households to the cramped and long outgrown house that never the less manages to cope at the Spring household. The other two main locations are also well outlined. These are the secondary, out of home locations.) The school is compared adequately to the one Janie attended in Connecticut, and the trip that Stephen and Jodie take to New York City is nicely seen through the observations of the characters who have led a rather sheltered life up to this point. The security and constant monitoring is also examined and the resistance to the monitoring is sharply contrasted by the perception of loss that Stephen feels when he turns around in New York City and discovers Jodie is gone. In those few moments, he is able to appreciate the way that his parents felt when Jennie went missing.