Fans of Mary Higgins Clark rejoiced to hear that she released a new novel earlier this year. There’s almost nothing we like better than a new Mary Higgins Clark.
Kay Lansing is the daughter of a landscaper, the employee of a rich family by the name of Carrington. One afternoon, six-year-old Kay went to work with her father and wandered into a forbidden part of the house to hear a woman and a man arguing. She doesn’t tell anyone about it because she doesn’t want to get in trouble for wandering off, but later, a woman who had been at a party at the estate went missing and was never found.
Over twenty years later, Kay is in charge of a library fundraiser. She needs a beautiful location for the event, and remembers how nice the Carrington mansion was. She goes to pay a call on Peter Carrington, the son of the family, and is immediately taken with his warm manner. He agrees to allow her to hold the event there. Her grandmother, however, has problems with Kay getting too close to Peter – he was a person of interest in the missing girl’s case, and his first wife died under mysterious circumstances, as well. But Kay believes in Peter’s innocence and is soon swept up in a whirlwind romance, to be married just a short time later.
As line repairs are done at the estate, the men make a shocking discovery – the body of the missing girl is dug up just beyond the property line. Not long after, Kay’s own father’s body is found, when for years, it was believed that he committed suicide. With two dead bodies on the Carrington estate, and with so many unanswered questions about Peter’s whereabouts, Kay must decide if she believes her new husband or not. When he is arrested and all the evidence points right at him, she decides to stay with him – but is that the biggest mistake of her life?
A nice quick read, I finished this book in two sittings and greatly enjoyed it.
(This book was published in 2007 by Simon and Schuster.)
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