SYNOPSIS
Television producer Laurie Moran has spent her career solving cold cases on-screen. But her next case takes place away from the glare of the
spotlights . . . and the missing person is a member of her growing family.
Laurie is just days away from her midsummer wedding when her fiancé’s nephew, seven-year-old Johnny, vanishes from the beach. Witnesses spotted Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. Perhaps he got distracted and wandered off.
When Johnny’s bodyboard washes up to shore, everyone realizes that the worst could have happened. The answers to Johnny’s disappearance lie in a family’s long-buried past . . . and the clock is ticking.
spotlights . . . and the missing person is a member of her growing family.
Laurie is just days away from her midsummer wedding when her fiancé’s nephew, seven-year-old Johnny, vanishes from the beach. Witnesses spotted Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. Perhaps he got distracted and wandered off.
When Johnny’s bodyboard washes up to shore, everyone realizes that the worst could have happened. The answers to Johnny’s disappearance lie in a family’s long-buried past . . . and the clock is ticking.
Title: Piece of my heart
Author: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
Series: Under Suspicion #7
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: November 17, 2020
REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐
I've got a confession to make. Although once upon a time when I was young...er, Mary Higgins Clark was one of my favorite authors, the past few years I just kept reading her books out of some kind of nostalgic obligation (if that even makes sense). It might be the books themselves or the fact that now I'm an adult with lots of books read under my belt, but I don't think her last stories were up to par with her earlier titles. However, when I learnt about her passing earlier this year I was saddened, cause it meant the end of a reading journey I started when I was on my teens.
Her seventh collaboration with Alafair Burke in the "Under Suspicion" series was just ok, and that saddens me cause I was really hoping for her last book to be a winner.
I was not specially taken with any of the plots. I'm getting so tired of children's kidnappings! And the case they investigate for the TV show wasn't much more interesting (predictable much?!). Both plots move way too slow, the involvement of some characters in the investigation was a bit of a stretch, and the actions of other characters were just plain stupid. I know it's fiction but, come on!
The fact that it's book 7 and some info on Laurie's background has been repeated in each and every book made this a bit tiresome. The fact that all the main characters are all lights and no shadows is a bit unrealistic and too vanilla for my current reading tastes.
Although it had all the trademarks of a Mary Higgins Clark story (short chapters, extensive cast, red-herrings) it didn't manage to grab me like some of the earlier titles in the series.
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