The Melody Linger on

 Elaine a thirty year old widow Lane works for Glady an upscaled interior designer. She found herself working an unusaul job. It's was a small townhouse that was purchased by Eric the son of Parker Bennett forhis mother to live in.

Parker disapeared in a sailing accident, before his many victums orthe federal government could excalt thier revenge. Now his wife was downsizing from the exspensive mansion. As Glady and  lane were decorating the home. 

But when Lane meet Eric, long suspected  to be hisfather collapboration.  Like a sparkling fly. Eric denies he had anytig to do with defauding  thousands of investors out of billions of dollars.  As he hired an sercuity firm to prove his innocense.

Ranger his wife  recently died without realizing her dream of moving to Florida, as they were victimized by Parker had desided that  Eric and Anne  don't deserve to live as well. As the man who was called tony russo, who moved next door to keep and eye on Anne.

Lane was the mother of Katie and herself  the daughter of privilege and power, isn't terriblesympathic of the characters. It didn't help that she was in love wigh magnet. As the author tries to raised the stakes a lot of schemes in a pplay that did not work.  

As Clarke  has pioneered  certain type of thriller and has done it very well.  But the evidences of her new novel had some lacking within the characters, and is slugglished  by the plot of the story as well.

3 stars