Mary Higgins Clark's marvellous novels of suspense have made her a bestseller all over the world, especially in America. In her stories, ordinary people get caught up, through no fault of their own in extraordinary sinister events, which they are powerless to control. In Loves Music, Loves to Dance, a killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, his victims drawn from among the women who answer his personal ads in New York's trendy weekly magazines.
Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott, best friends since college, have moved to the city to find exciting careers. Erin has begun to make her mark as an outstanding jewellery designer, and Darcy has embarked on a promising career as a decorator.
As a lark, the two women have agreed to help another friend with research for a television documentary on the kinds of people who place and answer personal ads, and on their experiences. At first, it seems like innocent fun.
Then one day, Erin disappears. Soon after, her body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier - on one foot is her own shoe, on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. It soon becomes apparent that Erin is not the first victim of this 'dancing shoe murderer', as other seemingly unrelated missing person reports are connected to her death through startling communiqués from the killer.
Darcy had persuaded the reluctant Erin to participate in the research for the documentary. Now, guilt-ridden over her friend's death, she sets out to meet the men Erin dated, hoping to find her killer.
What Darcy does not realise, what she cannot know until it is too late, is that she has been targeted as the killer's next victim.
Chilling, romantic and fast-paced, Loves Music, Loves to Dance, is 'unputdownable' reading, destined once again to build Mary Higgins Clark's ever-growing popularity.
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