Kerry McGrath is a divorced prosecutor with a ten-year-old daughter, Robin. One night while out with her father, Robin is involved in a car accident which showers glass all over her face. The hospital staff calls in Dr. Charles Smith, a renowned plastic surgeon, and he works his miracles on Robin’s face. She still has some red lines, but the doctor assures Kerry that the marks will go away in time.
When Kerry takes Robin in for a check-up, she sees a woman leaving the office who looks strangely familiar to her. She wracks her brain, but can’t come up with the name. During the next check-up, she sees another woman at the office, with the same face. And this time it comes to her – the face is that of Suzanne Reardon, a woman who was murdered ten years before. Kerry’s office had dealt with the case and she had seen the pictures when they came through. Was Dr. Smith giving women the face of this murder victim?
Puzzled and intrigued, Kerry starts to look into the case. Skip Reardon, Suzanne’s husband, was put in jail for the murder and had been sitting there for ten years. She goes out to the prison to meet him and while impressed with his story, can find nothing to indicate his innocence. She discovers that Dr. Smith was Suzanne’s father, and begins to look at things from a psychological point of view. Was his grief over his daughter’s death so great that he was now creating memorials to her with his surgical skills? And why is he now stalking one of his patients?
When someone in turn begins stalking Robin, Kerry knows she has to get to the bottom of the case, either that, or let it go altogether. But she can’t rest, knowing that just maybe, Skip is being punished for something he didn’t do, and someone is walking around, getting away with murder.
“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” is yet another entertaining and suspenseful mystery from the queen of the same, Mary Higgins Clark.
(This book was published in 1995 by Simon and Schuster.)
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