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Book Review of "Moonlight Becomes You" by Mary Higgins Clark.

© Janet Kay Blaylock

Mary Higgins Clark is known as "The Queen of Suspense." Her first book I read and did a review on was "A Cry In The Night." This book was very exciting and suspenseful. When I started reading "Moonlight Becomes You," I thought it would be the same way. However, it wasn't. This book seemed to have lost the excitement and suspense that was in "A Cry In The Night." It was a rather dull book.

In this book, Maggie Holloway meets her stepmother whom she hasn't seen for a long time. Nuala, Maggie's stepmother, has Maggie come to her home for a few weeks. When Maggie arrives, she finds that Nuala has been murdered. A short time later, Great Shipley, Nuala's friend, dies. Maggie becomes suspicious of the two deaths and thinks they are related somehow. You'll have to read the book to see what happens.

The language is clean and wholesome, but the plot needs something added to it to make it more exciting and suspenseful. The plot seems to drag. However, I have noticed in Mary Higgins Clark's books that she writes one scene and changes abruptly to another scene. She leaves the reading hanging and wondering what will happen next. This helps the element of suspense to build. I especially noticed this in her book "A Cry In The Night."

On a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being the highest, I'd rate this books as a 4. I'd be interested in hearing comments from others who have read "Moonlight Becomes You."

I have other books by Mary Higgins Clark that I'm eager to read and review. I hope there are others like "A Cry In The Night."