內容簡介
我聽到那首歌之前當凱蘭辛富裕的鰥夫彼得卡靈頓結婚,她已經知道這個傳聞彼得的離奇死亡的第一個太太優雅,誰被發現漂浮在家庭湊十年前,她懷孕了。凱也發現彼得是一種慢性正在夢遊的人患有周期性的噩夢。當警察到達她家門口與逮捕令逮捕涉嫌彼得的另一個女人謀殺——彼得護送到高中舞會22年前-凱開始擔心她嫁給了一個夢遊的兇手,她立志找出背後的真相莫名其妙的人死亡。但是,使兩人死亡的聯繫?為什麼一段鏇律,凱不能辨認繼續打在她的頭,她每次接近家庭教堂嗎?
原文
When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?
作者簡介
瑪麗·希金斯·克拉克出版社(22歲的作者是全球最暢銷的小說作品的和一本回憶錄。她住在鞍河,新澤西,照顧她的丈夫。
原文
Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-two worldwide bestselling works of fiction and a memoir. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey, with her husband.
媒體評論
"For her 27th suspense novel, Clark (Daddy's Little Girl, 2002, etc.) turns to the founding figure of the modern Gothic: the mysterious husband who may or may not be a killer.Twenty-two years ago, Kathryn Lansing, a little girl visiting the Carrington estate with her landscaper father, overheard an argument over money between an unseen man and woman. That evening, neighbor Susan Althorp, 18, Vanished after scion Peter Carrington drove her home from a dinner dance on the estate. Two weeks later, the Carringtons fired Jonathan Lansing, and two weeks after that, he disappeared as well, a presumed suicide. The police investigated but could never find enough evidence to indict Peter for murder, not even when his pregnant wife Grace drowned in their swimming pool hours after a party in which he excoriated her drinking. That's a lot of backstory, but Clark folds it into her narrative as expertly as a chef preparing a lump-free sauce. Once Kay Lansing asks Peter to host a reception to benefit the Englewood (N.J.) library, events move fast. Peter's soon swept her off her feet in an utterly unconvincing romance; Susan Althorp's dying mother calls Peter a murderer in a national magazine; Kay sees that her bridegroom is a sleepwalker; bodies turn up on the estate; the D.A. indicts Peter; his stepmother Elaine Walker, desperate to rescue her gallery-owner son Richard from his latest gambling debts, blackmails Kay with what looks like a damning piece of evidence. Kay knows her husband wouldn't hurt a fly when he's awake, but as a sleepwalker, could he be channeling The Moonstone along with Rebecca?Less peril and more mystification than usual. The conscientiously plotted result provides less tension and a longer wait before Clark's trademark velvet-glove momentum kicks in."
--Kirkus Reviews
