Piece of My Heart
The riveting cold-case mystery from the Queens of Suspense
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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 realises 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.
Piece of My Heart is another riveting page-turner from the Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and her dazzling partner-in-crime, Alafair Burke.
*** Praise for Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke ***
'I adore Mary Higgins Clark' Karin Slaughter
'Clark plays out her story like the pro that she is . . . flawless' Daily Mirror
'Should come with a warning: start in the evening and you'll be reading late into the night' USA Today
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
MWA Grand Master Clark and Burke's workmanlike sixth Under Suspicion novel (after 2018's You Don't Own Me) finds widow Laurie Moran, the producer of Under Suspicion, a reality TV show that investigates cold cases, engaged to marry Alex Buckley, a well-known criminal defense attorney and a former host of Laurie's show. Before the wedding, the happy couple gather in the Hamptons with their families and friends. Timmy, Laurie's 10-year-old son, is playing on the beach with Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny. The boys are under the care of a teenage babysitter, whose attention strays to a good-looking lifeguard. Johnny disappears when the babysitter and the lifeguard take the kids for an ice cream, but was Timmy the real target for the kidnapper? Laurie's father, the former first deputy commissioner of the NYPD, believes that the abduction is connected to a murder case he handled 18 years earlier. Plenty of motives and suspects keep the reader guessing as the action builds to a dramatic finale. Never mind the serviceable prose and stock characters. The authors show once again how a mother can turn into a courageous warrior when her child's life is at stake.
