- Audio CD
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (Feb 3 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743583299
- ISBN-13: 978-0743583299
- Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
At the start of bestseller Clark's riveting new novel of suspense, Kay Lansing recalls her first visit as a six-year-old to the Carrington estate in Englewood, N.J., where her father worked as a landscaper. Twenty-two years later, she returns to ask the present owner, Peter Carrington, if she can use the mansion for a fund-raiser. The two fall madly in love, and after a whirlwind courtship, they marry despite the shadow of suspicion that hangs over Peter regarding the death of a neighbor's daughter two decades earlier and the drowning of his first wife four years before. After an idyllic honeymoon, the couple return to New Jersey, where a magazine article has caused the police to reopen the cases. The subsequent discovery of two bodies buried on the estate causes even Kay to doubt her husband's innocence. Clark (Two Little Girls in Blue) deftly keeps the finger of guilt pointed in many directions until the surprising conclusion. (Apr.)
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Kay Lansing grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. One day, accompanying her father to work, six-year-old Kay overhears a quarrel between a man and a woman that ends with the man's caustic response: "I heard that song before." That same evening, young Peter Carrington drives the nineteen-year-old daughter of neighbors home from a formal dinner dance at the Carrington estate, but she is not in her room the next morning and is never seen or heard from again.
Decades later, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Peter, not only for his neighbor's disappearance but also for the subsequent drowning death of his own pregnant wife in their swimming pool. But when Kay Lansing, now a librarian in Englewood, asks Peter's permission to hold a literary benefit cocktail party on his estate, she comes to see Peter as misunderstood...and when he begins to court her, she falls in love -- and marries him. However, she soon makes a discovery that leads her to question her husband's innocence. She believes that the key to the truth lies in the identities of the man and woman whose quarrel she witnessed as a child. What she does not realize is that uncovering what lies behind these memories may cost Kay her life.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
This review is from: I Heard That Song Before: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
I didn't like this book at all, it didn't grab me and I often found myself thinking "give me a break!". Although I DID force myself to read the whole thing, so I guess something was done right... I think the writing itself was below par but the plot, although far-fetched, was interesting enough to keep us hooked.Unfortunately I cannot recommend this book as there are so many many many better ones out there...
3.0 out of 5 stars
A disappointment...,
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This review is from: I Heard That Song Before: A Novel (Hardcover)
Mary Higgins Clark is my absolute favorite writer, but this book just didn't grab me. I found it illogical and downright unbelieveable and contrived. I was very disappointed. I listened to the audiobook and perhaps the reader didn't do it justice. But this was just not a story I could get into. I hope the next book is more like what I am used to from this wonderful writer.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Compelling Premise That's Fulfilled with Page-Turning Excitement,
By Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 112,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (#1 HALL OF FAME)
This review is from: I Heard That Song Before: A Novel (Hardcover)
The fired gardener's daughter marries the billionaire owner of the estate in I Heard That Song Before. It's like taking up the story of Cinderella after the Prince and Cinderella have married.Unlike Cinderella, this story has some dark elements that overhang the marriage. At age six, Kay Lansing, our Cinderella, overhears a mysterious argument over money between a man and woman at the Carrington estate where her father works. That argument comes to have even greater significance in Kay's future. Kay's husband, Peter Carrington, has also been the prime suspect in the disappearance of neighbor Susan Althorp, a disappearance that happened the same day Kay overheard the argument. Further, Peter's pregnant first wife died mysteriously in the swimming pool. So is Peter really Prince Charming? That's the primary mystery that the book explores. It's a fun mystery. What makes this book rise above the average thriller is that Mary Higgins Clark does a masterful job of speeding up developments, events, and pressures on all of the characters just as soon as Kay and Peter return from their honeymoon. The result is peril that radiates out like the ripples from a boulder dropped into a billionaire's pool. The book is light on character development or I would have rated it higher. But for premise and story development, this is a superb book. Have fun!
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