Another easy read from MHC! (You Belong To Me - Mary Higgins Clark)

Member Name: LukeCroll

Product:	You Belong To Me - Mary Higgins Clark
Date:	16/09/00 (48 review reads)
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Advantages: MHC has legions of fans

Disadvantages: Slightly simple, no good for die hard fans

Regina Clausen was travelling on board a luxury liner, alone. She disembarked in Hong Kong and said that she would rejoin it in Japan. However, she was never seen again and no-one had any idea what happened to her.

However, when radio host Susan Chandler runs a series on vanished women, she wakes old memories. A caller says that she met a man on a cruise ship, who gave her a ring inscribed ‘You Belong To Me’ but disappeared when she would not leave the ship with him. Susan thinks nothing more of it.

However, it is then that Regina’s mother arrives at the radio station, announces that a ring with the same inscription was found in her daughter’s belongings. Susan realises that there is something very odd going on and decides to investigate.

As she looks into it, the hunter becomes the hunted and she realises that one of the people that have become involved in her life could be the person whom she is searching for. However, will she be able to survive it sort it all out before that person decides to deal with her as well?

Mary Higgins Clark is on top form with this puzzling tale. The chapters are incredibly short, but the pace of the story is good and she develops the characters well. The ending was guessable, as there were only two people who could be behind the disappearances, although Clark made sure that she gave us no clues until towards the very end.

Clark is a very good author and her one novel a year is normally a very good one. I know that I am looking forward to her next novel with anticipation, as I hope that it can be as good as this. Clark has taken the standard fare for a mystery story and improved it.

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