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The melody lingers on : a novel / Mary Higgins Clark

Title
The melody lingers on : a novel / Mary Higgins Clark
Author
Clark, Mary Higgins
Publication
  • New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
  • ©2015

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TextRequest in advance PS3553.L287 M45 2015Off-site

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Description
viii, 262 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • A beloved aunt's agreement to help her niece with college essays reawakens past secrets about the night a grandparent was murdered, an event that compels the woman to investigate a treasured music box to uncover the truth.
  • Parker Bennett has been missing for two years. He dropped out of sight-- on a sailboat in the Caribbean-- just before it was discovered that the $5 billion dollars in the fund he had been managing had vanished. Lane Harmon, assistant to an upscale interior designer, is working on his wife's townhouse. Gradually, Lane finds herself drawn to Eric, the Bennetts' son, who is determined to prove that his father is not guilty. Lane doesn't know that the closer she gets to the Bennetts, the more she puts her life-- and her daughter's life-- in jeopardy.
Subject
  • Family secrets > Fiction
  • Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction
  • Rich people > Fiction
  • Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
  • Family secrets
  • Rich people
  • Interior decorators > Fiction
  • Missing persons > Fiction
  • Accounting fraud > Fiction
  • New York (State) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Thrillers (Fiction)
  • Mystery fiction
  • Fiction
  • Suspense fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Detective and mystery fiction
  • Suspense fiction.
  • Mystery fiction.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
When a beloved aunt agrees to help her teenaged niece with her college essays, she never imagines she'll open doors to her own past. The niece writes a highly autobiographical piece about the night her grandmother was murdered -- a grisly crime long believed to be a burglary gone awry. The girl, who was a young child at the time, was sleeping in the nursery and writes that she saw her step-grandfather in the hallway. Her aunt is shocked. At the time, the man in question -- her stepfather -- had been dead for several years. Among the missing belongings from her mother's home was a precious music box, on which was engraved the number of a Swiss bank account containing millions. Convinced her stepfather faked his own death and returned to murder his wife and grab the money, the aunt is determined to uncover the truth and bring him to justice.
ISBN
  • 9781476749112 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1476749116 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781476749129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1476749124 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781476749136 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2015004300
OCLC
  • 902986924
  • SCSB-12175872
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library