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Un crucero de glamour en un transatlántico de lujo se vuelve letal en la última novela de Mary Higgins Clark, la reina del suspense
Solo desea huir de la humillante escena del arresto de su prometido la víspera de su boda. Celia Kilbride, experta en joyas, acepta un puesto de trabajo en el transatlántico Queen Charlotte para escapar de la atención pública. Allí conoce a Lady Emily Haywood, de ochenta y seis años, dueña de un collar de esmeraldas de incalculable valor que desea donar a un museo tras el crucero.
Pero el tercer día de travesía encuentran a Lady Emily muerta y el collar ha desaparecido. La lista de sospechosos no hace más que crecer. Celia se dispone a encontrar al asesino sin darse cuenta de que se ha puesto en peligro mortal antes de que el crucero llegue a su fin.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from "Queen of Suspense" and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.
Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship--the Queen Charlotte.
On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood, "Lady Em," as she is known throughout the world. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian after the cruise.
Three days out to sea Lady Em is found dead--and the necklace is missing. Is it the work of her apparently devoted assistant, Brenda Martin, or her lawyer-executor, Roger Pearson, and his wife, Yvonne, both of whom she had invited to join them on the cruise? Or is it Professor Henry Longworth, an acclaimed Shakespeare scholar who is lecturing on board? Or Alan Davidson, a guest on the ship who is planning to spread his wife's ashes at sea? The list of suspects is large and growing.
Celia, with the help of her new friends Willy and Alvirah Meehan, who are celebrating their forty-fifth wedding anniversary, sets out to find the killer, not realizing that she has put herself in mortal danger before the ship reaches its final destination.
Never, in all her long career as a #1 bestselling suspense novelist, has Mary Higgins Clark been in better form.
Summary
Un crucero de glamour en un transatlántico de lujo se vuelve letal en la última novela de Mary Higgins Clark, la reina del suspense. Solo desea huir de la humillante escena del arresto de su prometido la víspera de su boda. Celia Kilbride, experta en joyas, acepta un puesto de trabajo en el transatlántico Queen Charlotte para escapar de la atención pública. Allí conoce a Lady Emily Haywood, de ochenta y seis años, dueña de un collar de esmeraldas de incalculable valor que desea donar a un museo tras el crucero. Pero el tercer día de travesía encuentran a Lady Emily muerta y el collar ha desaparecido. La lista de sospechosos no hace más que crecer. Celia se dispone a encontrar al asesino sin darse cuenta de que se ha puesto en peligro mortal antes de que el crucero llegue a su fin. Reseñas: «Una lectura ágil, con una trama bien trabajada que no se pierde en un final superfluo y que, sobre todo, cuenta con la dosis exacta de giros y sorpresas para que nos mantengamos enganchados.» Revista Kritica «Mary Higgins Clark usa el humor, demuestra su talento para recrear escenasde manera casi cinematográfica y su documentación previa, en este caso, en el sector de la alta joyería.» Laura Galdeano, Libertad Digital «Me dio un susto de muerte.» The Guardian «La reina de la alta tensión.» The New Yorker En los blogs... «La autora nunca defrauda a sus seguidores y en esta novela vuelve a conseguir captar el interés del lector con una trama bien urdida que se desarrolla en un escenario sugerente, que invita a que la intriga y el suspense se desarrollen de forma trepidante.» Blog Me gustan los libros «Este libro es puro estilo Mary Higgins Clark, nos pone en duda, los pasajeros hacen que pensemos de uno en otro quién ha sido, nos narra muy bien la vida a bordo del crucero, cómo se forman amistades o enemistades.» Blog Estoy entre páginas «Es una novela sencilla (que no simple), con mucha agilidad, con un vocabulario más que correcto, mérito también de la traductora, y una capacidad de atrapar al lector entre sus páginas envidiable.» Blog Atardeceres bajo un árbol
Author Notes
Mary Higgins Clark was born in the Bronx, New York on December 24, 1927. After graduating from high school and before she got married, she worked as a secretary, a copy editor, and an airline stewardess. She supplemented the family's income by writing short stories. After her husband died in 1964, leaving her with five children, she worked for many years writing four-minute radio scripts before turning to novels. Her debut novel, Aspire to the Heavens, which is a fictionalized account of the life of George Washington, did not sell well. She decided to focus on writing mystery/suspense novels and in 1975 Where Are the Children? was published. She received a B.A. in philosophy from Fordham University in 1979.
Her other works include While My Pretty One Sleeps, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Moonlight Becomes You, Pretend You Don't See Her, No Place Like Home, The Lost Years, The Melody Lingers On, As Time Goes By and Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry. She is the author of the Alvirah and Willy series, which began with Weep No More, My Lady. She is also the co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of several holiday crossover books including Deck the Halls, He Sees You When You're Sleeping, Santa Cruise, The Christmas Thief, and Dashing Through the Snow. She writes the Under Suspicion series with Alafair Burke. In 2001, Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir was published. She received numerous honors including the Grand Prix de Literature of France in 1980), the Horatio Alger Award in 1997, the Gold Medal of Honor from the American-Irish Historical Society, the Spirit of Achievement Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University the first Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2002 and the Christopher Life Achievement Award in 2003.
Many of her titles have made the best sellers list. Her recent books include All By Myself, Alone, I've Got My Eyes On You, and You Don't Own Me.
Bestselling suspense novelist, Mary Higgins Clark died on January 31, 2020 at the age of 92.
(Bowker Author Biography)
