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FROM: Patricia Gibson <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 2/11/03, 6:53 PM

Hi Everyone,
Do any of you know of a Mary Higgins Clark novel that takes place mainly
in a graveyard?

Thanks for your help!

Patricia Gibson
Kamloops Public Library

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/11/03, 11:37 PM

This must be "Moonlight becomes you."

From Kirkus Reviews
The arresting opening tableau--a young woman
buried alive in a satin-lined coffin--is a
perfect image for the sleekly cushioned menace
Clark dispenses in her 13th novel (Silent Night,
1995, etc.). Flashback 20 days to the night
photographer Maggie Holloway meets her long-ago
stepmother, Nuala Moore, and Nuala invites her to
visit her place in Newport. Before Maggie's
arrival, though- -and, more crucially, before
Nuala can carry out her plan to move into the
nonpareil Latham Manor Residence--Nuala is killed
and her house ransacked, and Maggie finds to her
astonishment that Nuala's will leaves the Newport
house to her. Why would anybody want to kill an
inoffensive old lady like Nuala? Well, somebody
might be trying to pick up her house for a song
(somebody like Nuala's attorney Malcolm Norton or
shady broker Douglas Hansen); or somebody might
be after the fat deposit the next applicant for
Nuala's new suite would have to pay Latham Manor
(somebody like incompetent director Dr. William
Lane or nosey nurse Zelda Markey); or somebody
might need to shut Nuala up about her knowledge
of several other suspect deaths, with another
still impending, of Latham Manor residents
(whoever may have helped those residents into the
great beyond); or somebody might be just a little
obsessed with the whole subject of death
(somebody like wild-eyed funeral expert Prof.
Earl Bateman). As usual in her recent work, Clark
ends up tying all these threats in together, so
that the land grab, the nursing-home deposit
scam, the investment fraud, the sinister messages
sent by a series of funeral bells, and the Latham
Manor murders all turn out to be the work of a
single diligent soul, who (don't forget) has the
same wicked designs on Maggie as on Nuala. About
average for Clark's G-rated thrillers, as if you
were counting--with enough material on funerary
customs to make you resolve to live forever.

David Wright
Seattle Public Library

--- Patricia Gibson <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Do any of you know of a Mary Higgins Clark
> novel that takes place mainly
> in a graveyard?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Patricia Gibson
> Kamloops Public Library
>
>
>
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FROM: Patricia Gibson <[removed]@tnrdlib.bc.ca>
REC'D: 2/12/03, 5:03 PM

Thank you for your help in my search for a Higgins Clark book which
takes place in a graveyard. Yes! "Moonlight Becomes You" was it.

Thanks again,
Patricia Gibson
Kamloops Public Library

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