The American Writer mary higgins clark had the great virtue of not only maintaining that taste for a classic police genre around the mystery of crime, but with the passage of time he transferred his arguments to a present day in which he inserts that point of classicism that seems to bring us approaches of Agatha Christie or of Poe more police to our world today.
Of course, to achieve that integration between yesterday and today of a genre exploited towards a multitude of new ramifications, only an author who has directly sucked the era of the first splendor of the criminal mystery could achieve it. And that remained current and updated with the new creative paths of this literary field until his death in 2020.
So it's no wonder your novel The Last Dance start from one of those closed circles of people suspected of murder transferred to an American-style party at the home of the parents of young Kerry Dowling, the same one who after her hangover appears drowned in her pool, or at least thrown into it after his death.
The reconstruction of the events become that magical assignment of letters that the author executes with her usual mastery, labeling each other so that we can try to compose a puzzle of suspicions, evidence and other loose pieces ...
The investigation into the evidence on the victim's body progresses in a tedious way and the probes of those people who may have their particular justification for killing Kerry focus on the typical close environment.
A popular girl like Kerry had as many good friends as other posh friends, an eccentric acquaintance, and a jealous and suspicious boyfriend. The police seem to be a bit lost, according to Aline, the sister of the deceased. And the need for resolution and even revenge makes the blood boil of that older sister who feels she has failed the girl whom she always had in that improvised guardianship of the birthright.
So Aline sets out to compose her own picture of suspects and circumstances that could have led to the fatal event. At first, she does not care about the risk of approaching the murderer, the idea of avenging Kerry makes her feel that she is strong, capable of facing anyone for discovering the truth. But she may not be that strong and her emotions can probably lead her to dangers that are difficult to overcome.
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