Moonlight Becomes You

Mary Higgins Clark

Maggie's date takes her to a family reunion dinner. There she discovers her once step mother who had been so important to her as a child. Their own private reunion was emotionally satisfying for both Maggie and the woman who still felt like her mother, Nuala.

Nuala invites Maggie to come visit her for two weeks in her home in Newport. Maggie quickly accepts, looking forward to the chance to spend time with the woman. Maggie called Nuala from New York saying she was leaving now and should be arriving by 8 PM. When she arrives, she discovers Nuala had been bludgeoned to death in the interim.

Maggie is saddened by the death of the wonderful woman and decides to stay in Newport in the house Nuala had recently left to her. She visited Nuala's friend in the nearby exclusive nursing home, Grace Shipley. Maggie has an instant rappour with Mrs. Shipley, and takes her to the cemetary to visit Nuala and some other recently deceased friends. It is at the cemetary that Maggie feels something is out of place. After Mrs. Shipley dies a few days later, Maggie is compelled to follow up the uneasy feelings she has.

The novel opens with Maggie being buried alive. Then it backtracks a few weeks and tells the story. I kept putting it down because of the intenseness, yet would pick it up again within a half hour or my next available reading time so I could keep reading and find out what happened. Even though I pegged Nuala's murderer, it was only because of the deduction of the reader looking at the main characters. I didn't figure motives and reasons until they were explained.

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