Review #66
The disappearance of divorcee, Adele Hopkins, interrupts the plans of Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, to celebrate their first anniversary at their family’s weekend place on Cape Cod. After a severe storm, Skip, a local caretaker, finds Adele lying in a heap outside the house she's renting, her face bloody, her rowboat banging against the rocks in the nearby bay. By the time Skip returns with help, Adele is gone.
The sixtyish loner, who moved in five months ago, shunned her neighbors. Even her landlords, friends of the Reillys, have no idea how to locate her next of kin. Discovered in her dining room are stacks of apology cards she'd not yet sent and bags of decorative pillows that are embroidered with the saying “grudge me, grudge me not”.
Regan and Jack begin an investigation to help their friends track down Adele's family. They start by interviewing two young women who own the shop where Adele had bought the pillows. Pippy and Ellen opened Pillow Talk after they both lost their jobs. A newspaper article revealed the terrible way the women had been treated by their former employers and, when it was posted on the Internet, business took off. They started to become well-known and the Pillow Talk website became a place for people, who had had similar experiences, to vent their feelings. Pippy and Ellen receives an anonymous e-mail from someone who spews venom about her former rowing coach, Adele Hopkins. Could she be the same Adele Hopkins?
Regan and Jack's search for clues to this mysterious woman's identity makes for an anniversary weekend they'll never forget!
Loved the book!
I don't think Mary Higgins Clark can do no wrong. Sounds like a good read.
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