"You Belong To Me" by Mary Higgins Clark (3)

“You Belong To Me” by Mary Higgins Clark

This book was written by Mary Higgins Clark in the year 1998. In the Asian Age was written about this book “Clark keeps you reading ...very engaging” and the Daily Mirror wrote “Clark plays out her story like a pro that she is...flawless”.

About Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney is born in December 24th in the year 1927 in the Bronx , New York . She has wrote twenty- four books and each and every one of them has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries. Clark began to write at an early age but it was at the year of 1970 she started to write mystery and suspense novels. Her daughter , Carol Higgins Clark, is also a suspense writer and they have wrote some works together.

Setting

Most of the events of the book take place in New York and during one week time. It is in the middle of October and the timeline is about ten years back.

The main characters

• Susan Chandler is a phycologist in New York who has a radio pragram that she runs on work days and has been previously worked as an attorney.
  
• Donald Richards is a psycologist who wrote a book about vanishing women and has an intrest in Susan Chandler.
  
• Alex Wright is a wealthy businessman who likes Susan Chandler and owns a foundation that supports people in need.
  
• Jane Clausen is an eldery woman who wants to know what happened to her daughter Regina who had disappeared three years ago. She wants to know it quick because she is dieing because of cancer .
  
• Carolyn Wells is the woman who managed not to fall in a murderes trap and had the ring with engraved “You belong to me”.
  

The plot

Susan Chandler starts to investigate the vanishing of Regina Clausen and during the investigation she gathers information from various sources . She works as a clinical phycologist and has a radio program called “Ask Dr.Susan” on workdays mornings. One of her guests is Dr.Donald Richard with who she goes out for dinner two times .
Donald Richards wife had died few years back and now when he met Susan he thought he can finally move on. But he is ot the only one who has an eye on Susan. Also does a very rich and famous Alex Wright with whom Susan also goes out few times.
In the radio program Carolyn Wells calls in and tells that she was tried to be seduced on a gruise ship and she would have gone with me man if her husband wouldn’t called and convinced her to give their marriage another try. The killer heard it on the radio and tried to kill her but she managed to come out of the coma where she was after the murderer pushed her under a van.
The murderer gifts his victims rings with engreaved inside “You belong to me”. As the murder of the women starts to realize that Susan is on to him he starts to eliminate also the ones who can recognize him. During the book it reveals that the murederer kills his victims according to the lyrics of the song “You belong to me”. Also he finds his victims from gruises and looks for lonely and desprate women who just need to be hold and loved. After they have been seduced they are never seen again .
The murderer before going after his last victim attemps to kill Susan Chandler at her office. Then Susan becomes to know that the killer is Alex Wright and he tells her that Susan’s sister Dee is going to be the last victim of his and that it would be easy to kill her because Dee is allready in love with him. Luckily before Susan would have bleeded to death Donald Richards finds her and saves her.
Before Alex could get to Dee Susan and Donald told the whole story to the police and he was arested in the port where he was suppose to go off with Dee and Dee pointed him out for the police. After knowing that her daughters murderer has been caoth Jane Clausen could die in peace .

My opinion of the book

The book was very engaging and I really enjoyed reading it. Not even for a moment I was bored because all the time something was happening and it was very interesting. It truly is one of the greatest books I have read lately and may be even in my life.
I usually don’t like to read books but at this case I couldn’t put the book down from my hands and I’m glad I read it. I sincerely recommend this book to everyone and hope that others will enjoy this book as much as I did.