jjares reviewed on 2/6/2022 + 3411 more book reviews

This novel is a well-written suspense story written by Mary Higgins Clark. As this is the fourth book I've read by this author, I found the plotting complex. However, the story was a bit longer and gave the reader ample opportunity to boil down the murderer to two possibles. I liked that the stories are full of well-written dialogue without salty language or sex scenes.

Peter Carrington has been living under a shadow for 22-years. There have been deaths over the years (some labeled as suicides). However, after Peter marries his third wife, Kay Lansing (daughter of the family's former landscaper), things start happening that reopen old wounds. Kay has memories of an argument in the Carrington's mansion chapel twenty plus years before -- and it has a direct connection to the following string of deaths. Then Peter's luck runs out, and he heads for a murder trial. When Peter decides to use the defense of perhaps killing while sleepwalking, Kay knows she must do something to help her husband. Unfortunately, the sleepwalking defense will only keep him in jail for the remainder of his years.

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