I Heard That Song Before: A Novel | Mary Higgins Clark | On The Street Where You Live Was Better.

I Heard That Song Before: A Novel | Mary Higgins Clark | Murder, Glitz, and Glamour

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I Heard That Song ...

	I Heard That Song Before: A Novel Mary Higgins Clark Pocket, 2008 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 98 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

On The Street Where You Live Was Better.

This is my second MHC book that I've read. The author uses her fine tactics of deeply defined characters, brief chapters, & cliff hanger endings to create a modestly good read. The story takes place at the Carrington family mansion in New Jersey. The young librarian Kay Lansing, asks Peter Carrington for permission to hold a fundraiser for a literacy program at his estate. Soon romance blooms & a dizzying courtship finds Kay married to the far older Carrington.

For two decades the latter has lived under a cloud of suspicion in the disappearance of Susan Althorp his neighbor, as well as in the drowning death of his pregnant first wife. Could the naieve Kay be in danger? Now a former step-mother resides at the estate, a married couple who runs the kitchen, a gambling addict- art gallery owner, a cranky caller who gets no responce, a grieving mom, & a private detective who is ardently trying to solve a cold case. Some of the dialogue felt forced & seemed very unrealistic. Nonetheless, you will enjoy this novel. I just think you will prefer "On The Street Where You Live More?"

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Murder, Glitz, and Glamour

A nice look into the life of two families living a glitz and glamorous life: Carrington vs. Althorp.(The names says it all). Nice historical link to the Lindbergh kidnapping. Very nice light reading.

A Plot I Haven't Read Before

At age six, Kay Lansing accompanied her father Jonathan to work at the Carrington estate. While there, she snuck into the house and overheard two people arguing in the chapel. A few weeks later, Jonathan Lansing disappears.

Fast-forward twenty-two years. After meeting with Peter Carrington to set up a fundraiser, Kay falls in love with and marries the millionaire. But shortly after their honeymoon, Peter is arrested for the murder of Susan Althorp, a neighbor who had disappeared twenty-two years earlier, the same night Kay overheard the conversation in the house. Peter maintains his innocence, despite the police finding Susan and Jonathan's bodies on the property, but when Kay catches him sleepwalking, she begins to wonder if he is as innocent as he claims.

Did Peter kill Susan Althorp and Kay's father? Or is he being framed? And what about the conversation Kay overheard as a child? With a suspicious step-brother, two workers who seem to be nervous around the police, and an angry ambassador, there are plenty of suspects to choose from.

I've often lamented the fact that many of Mary Higgins Clark's books are similar in plot and characters. This novel, I must say, is a departure from her usual storyline. While the title may be "I Heard That Song Before", I can say that this is one plot I have not read before!

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Many years ago while visiting the mansion where her father worked Kay Lansing overhears someone saying "I Heard That Song Before." It sticks with her through the years and she remembers as she visits the same estate to get permission to hold a fund raiser there. She quickly falls in love with Peter, a man of suspision in the death of his pregnant wife. They marry and it quickly becomes apparant that her husband is a sleepwalker. That fact causes her to have doubts and questions of her own surrounding the death. Did he do it? Or not! Another mystery!

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