As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon is accustomed to visiting opulent homes. So her latest job at a modest New Jersey townhouse is unusual. Then she learns the home belongs to the wife of disgraced finance magnate Parker Bennett, who vanished two years earlier, along with the five billion dollar hedge fund he managed.
The debate over whether Bennett was suicidal or staged his disappearance still continues. Both his clients and the federal government want to trace the money and find him. But Lane is surprisingly moved by Mrs. Bennett's steadfast faith in her husband's innocence. Gradually, Lane is also drawn to the Bennetts' son, Mark, who is equally determined to prove his father is not guilty. What she doesn't realize is the closer she gets to the notorious family, the more her life—and that of her five-year-old daughter—is in jeopardy.
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- ISBN: 9781476749136
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Publisher's Weekly
June 8, 2015
MWA Grand Master Clark (I've Got You Under My Skin) offers no major surprises in this enjoyable novel of romantic suspense spun around a lyric from an Irving Berlin song. When hedge fund billionaire Parker Bennett disappears from his sailboat, he leaves behind a great many fleeced investors, as well as wife Anne Bennett and grown son Eric, who are both bereft and suspect. When Anne is forced to give up their Greenwich, Conn., mansion and move into a condominium in New Jersey, she hires Manhattan-based interior designer Glady Harper to decorate the condo. Glady introduces her assistant, Elaine "Lane" Harmon, to likable Anne and handsome Eric. Meanwhile, two FBI agents try to find the missing Parker and prove Eric's complicity in his father's crime. Lane begins to fall for Eric and believes in his innocence enough to refuse to help the FBI. Clark keeps readers wondering about Parker's intentions and Eric's involvement, and how much both may cost Lane, as her tale drifts to an end. -
Kirkus
A missing con artist proves the catalyst for intrigue, revenge, and romance in this latest novel by the prolific Clark.Thirty-year-old widow Elaine "Lane" Harmon works for Glady Harper, an upscale interior decorator. She soon finds herself working on an unusual job-it's a small townhouse purchased by Eric Bennett, son of Parker Bennett, a notorious Bernie Madoff-like figure, for his mother to live in. Parker disappeared in a sailing accident before his many victims or the federal government could exact their revenge. Now his wife, Anne, is downsizing from their expensive mansion and Glady and Lane are decorating the place. But when Lane meets Eric-long suspected to be his father's collaborator-sparks fly. Eric denies he had anything to do with defrauding thousands of investors out of billions of dollars, and he's hired a security firm to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, a man named Ranger, whose wife recently died without realizing her dream of moving to Florida after they were victimized by Parker, has decided that Eric and Anne don't deserve to live at all. And a man who calls himself Tony Russo-an undercover FBI agent-has moved in next door to keep an eye on Anne. Gorgeous, smart Lane, the mother of sweet little Katie and herself the daughter of privilege and power, isn't a terribly sympathetic character; and it doesn't help that she's a love magnet. While the author tries to raise the stakes with lots of nefarious schemes in play at once, none of it works. Clark pioneered a certain type of thriller and did it better than anyone, but her later novels-as evidenced by this one-have shown signs of wear with weak characterization, stilted dialogue, and sluggish, unimaginative plotting. This novel only serves to remind readers of how good Clark can be and isn't this time around. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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