Would you answer a personal ad after reading this (Loves music, Loves to dance - Mary Higgins Clark)

Member Name: raebroughton

Product:	Loves music, Loves to dance - Mary Higgins Clark
Date:	11/08/09 (31 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Plenty of twists and turns with a good storyline

Disadvantages: None that I can think of!

I have been working my way through some of Mary Higgins Clarks books and from the start this book draws you into the story and has plenty of suspense.

It takes place within the world of the personal ads and how someone is using these ads as a way to trap and lure women to their death. Darcy Scott is the main character and is instantly likeable. She works as a sort of Interior Designer, both herself and her best friend Erin place personal ads to help their television producer friend. Who at the moment is involved with a programme regarding personal ads.

After a date Erin mysteriously diasappears, Darcy begins to realise that maybe the ads were not just a bit of fun after all. Darcy instantly fears the worst and her suspicions are confirmed when Erins body is found dumped in an alley with her own boot on one foot and a dancing shoe on the other.

Darcy immediately insists on helping with the investigation by continuing to answer the ads so she can try and unmask her friends killer. This obviously brings her very close to being the next victim and leads to a very exciting ending.

This novel is very typical of Mary Higgins Clark it includes a serial killer and the killer generally plays a cat and mouse game with the main character, this is certainly what happens in this story. The lead character Darcy is very much like all the main characters in Higgins novels as she is a strong and independant woman. You instantly feel for her character and even though she is using a dangerous way to find the killer you can kind of understand why she is doing it.

As you read on there are many suspects and you are thrown many red herrings before you finally discover who the killer is.

The book is a very good read and Mary Higgins Clark is one of my favourite authors of thrillers as she always keeps you guessing right up till the last pages. The only thing that I would say is some of the things mentioned in the book can sound a little dated as I believe it was written around 1992 but this is just a minor detail and the storyline is very good so it doesn't really affect the book.

Summary: Another good read by Mary Higgins Clark