Moonlight Becomes You was written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Mass Market Paper Backs Publishing House in April 1977.
Our apartment has a library and I saw this book. I hadn’t read it, so it was one of the books I selected.
My Review
I’ll begin my review in Newport, Rhode Island, in the United States. This is a place where the rich and famous live.
This book is about Maggie Holloway, who is a fashion photographer. She goes our on a date with a young man. He takes her to a party in New York City where she meets her stepmother, (Nuala Moore). Three days later Nuala has been murdered. The person who did it left no clues.
Maggie is asked to attend the reading of Nuala Moore’s will. She almost fainted when she found out the entire estate was left to her. The only condition is that she will go visit her friend Greta Shipley. When she goes to see her they go to the cemetery to visit Nuala’s grave. That’s when she notices that some of the graves have funeral bells on them.
Maggie makes her first mistake when she decides to investigate the murder her self. She finds out that two of Nuala’s friends are dead. At the time they dead it seemed natural, but as she dug deeper into her investigation she grew suspicions, and decided to try and discover if they were murdered as well.
The murder is always one step ahead of her, and she wasn’t sure if the clues were good or planted to take her off course.
Along the way you’ll meet a lawyer, a drunk, an admirer, an investment broker, a nosy nurse and a doctor, who doesn’t seem to be doing his job. There are flashbacks and scary events.
To find out why Maggie finds herself in a coffin, buried under the ground and why the bell she is trying to ring, won’t, you’ll have to read the book. I will tell you that this is how the book begins!!!!
What I Thought
As always the characters are developed to perfection. Mrs. Higgins keeps us guessing who the murder is. There are about 330 pages, and I could hardly put the book down until I finished it.
Mary always has strong women at the core of her books, and that’s a nice change from the mystery books who have brave men.
This is Mary Higgins Clark’s 13th book, and since this is Friday the 13th I thought I’d write this review for you. Some of the other books I’ve read are A Cry In The Night, You Belong To Me, The Cradle Will Fall, The Anastasia Syndrom, Silent Night, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and I’ll Be Seeing You.
ISBN: 0671867113
Thanks for reading my review
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