In her thirteenth full-length novel -- her most chillingly suspenseful yet -- Mary Higgins Clark, "America's Queen of Suspense, " delivers a tale of brilliantly sustained terror.
Set in Newport, Rhode Island, in a world of old money and proud names, "Moonlight Becomes You" has at its center Maggie Holloway, an independent young woman who has put personal tragedy behind her and become one of the fashion world's most successful photographers.
Accompanying her date to a party in Manhattan -- a kind of family reunion for the Moore clan of Newport -- Maggie is reunited with a woman who had once been her stepmother and who remains one of her fondest childhood memories. Nuala Moore is equally thrilled to see Maggie, and the two quickly get beyond old pains and resume their friendship.
Nuala, now widowed, invites Maggie to visit her in Newport, and when Maggie readily accepts, Nuala plans a dinner for a group of friends so they can meet her long-lost stepdaughter. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala dead, the victim of an apparently random break-in and robbery.
Maggie is heartbroken at the loss and further stunned when she learns that, only days before her death, Nuala had changed her will and left her charming Victorian house to her stepdaughter, the only proviso being that Maggie occasionally visit an old friend, Greta Shipley, who lives in Latham Manor, an elegant retirement home in Newport.
It is when she accompanies Mrs. Shipley to the cemetery to visit Nuala's grave, as well as those of other friends Mrs. Shipley has recently lost, that Maggie discovers that something is wrong. Using her skills as a photographer to aid her in uncovering the secrets hidden onthe gravesites, she soon realizes that Nuala's death may not have been a random killing at all but rather part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted and unfeeling mind.
Suddenly it becomes all too apparent to Maggie that Nuala's killer must have been someone she trusted completely. Then, when Greta Shipley dies virtually without warning of supposedly natural causes, Maggie becomes convinced that there is a connection between these two and other recent deaths among the older women of Newport.
What Maggie "doesn't" realize is that "she" has become a target for the killer as well and that each clue she uncovers brings her closer and closer to a shocking and unimaginable fate.
With a sense of swiftly mounting danger, and with the skill and insight into human nature that have made all Mary Higgins Clark's books major bestsellers, "Moonlight Becomes You" is enthralling suspense.
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读完这本书,我最深刻的感受是那种久违的、被文字力量完全包裹的感觉。叙事结构非常大胆,它似乎在用一种非线性的方式讲述一个核心事件,不同的时间线和视角交织在一起,一开始可能会让人稍微有些迷失,但这正是作者的高明之处——它强迫你去主动构建属于你自己的故事拼图。语言风格极其华丽,充斥着大量令人惊艳的比喻和象征,读起来像是在品尝一款年份久远的红酒,每一口都有新的层次感和回甘。我尤其喜欢其中一个配角的故事线,虽然篇幅不长,但其命运的悲剧性与时代背景的荒谬感形成了强烈的反差,是全书最让人动容的部分之一。总而言之,这不是一本轻松的小读物,它要求读者投入心神,但回报给你的是一种智力上和情感上的双重满足,绝对值得收藏。
评分我最近很少读到如此“有重量”的作品了。这本书的基调是深沉而略带忧郁的,仿佛笼罩在一层永恒的暮色之中。作者的叙事视角经常在宏大的历史叙事和局部的、私密的家庭悲剧中切换,这种交错感非常有冲击力,让你意识到个体的命运是如何被时代洪流裹挟的。我特别喜欢它对“记忆”的处理方式,记忆不是线性的回顾,而是断裂的、充满情感偏差的碎片,随着故事的深入,这些碎片被重新组织,真相也随之浮出水面,但那种真相带来的慰藉感却非常有限,更多的是一种清醒的、略带苦涩的理解。这本书对“牺牲”这一主题进行了非常深刻的探讨,探讨了为了所谓的更高目标,个人需要付出何等代价。这是一部需要全神贯注才能体会其深意的佳作,读完后,你会发现自己对周遭的世界似乎都有了更深一层的理解。
评分这本书的结构犹如一个精密的钟表,每一个齿轮——每一个章节、每一个角色的命运——都以一种近乎宿命论的方式精确咬合。我惊叹于作者对细节的执着,无论是对特定历史时期服饰的描述,还是对一类特定手工艺流程的讲解,都显示出作者做了大量的案头工作,这让虚构的故事拥有了令人信服的真实感。不过,它的阅读体验是有些“慢热”的,前半部分更像是在铺陈背景和建立人物关系,稍微有些冗长,但一旦进入中段,所有的线索开始收紧,节奏骤然加快,那种被情节推着走的紧张感让人欲罢不能。它探讨了关于“身份认同”的主题,探讨了一个人在故土与新环境之间的拉扯,那种文化上的疏离感和渴望归属的矛盾,写得非常细腻,让人感同身受。
评分说实话,我一开始是被封面吸引的,但内容完全超出了我的预期。这本书的魅力在于它的“安静的力量”。它没有宏大的战争场面,也没有惊天动地的阴谋,它专注于描绘个体在巨大社会变迁面前的微小但坚韧的生存状态。作者对人物心理的捕捉精确到了令人发指的地步,那种细微的嫉妒、不被理解的孤独、对逝去时光的怀念,都写得入木三分。对话的艺术堪称一绝,很多关键信息的传递都是通过那些看似平淡无奇的日常交谈中流露出来的,你需要仔细推敲每一个停顿和每一个未说出口的话。这本书的后劲很大,我合上书后,脑海中还在不断重演某些场景,思考着如果换作是我会做出何种选择。对于喜欢深度挖掘人性复杂性的读者来说,这无疑是一次难得的阅读盛宴。
评分这本小说简直是沉浸式的体验,作者对环境的描绘细致入微,仿佛我能闻到空气中潮湿的泥土气息和远处海水的咸味。故事情节的推进张弛有度,关键转折点的设置出人意料却又在情理之中,让人在阅读过程中忍不住猜测接下来的发展,但最终的真相又比自己想象的更为深刻和复杂。特别是主角在面对道德困境时的内心挣扎,刻画得极其真实和立体,不是那种脸谱化的英雄或恶棍,而是充满了人性的灰色地带。我特别欣赏作者在不经意间流露出的那种对历史背景的考究,那些关于战后重建时期的社会氛围、人们在动荡后对“正常生活”的渴望与不安,都被巧妙地融入了人物的日常对话和行动之中,使得整个故事的基调沉稳而富有厚重感。这本书的节奏把握得非常好,既有让人心跳加速的悬念段落,也有适合深夜独处时细细品味的哲思片段,是一部需要用心去阅读,并且会留下深刻回味的作品。
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