The mistress of high tension and undisputed queen of suspense, Mary Higgins Clark, brings us another New York Times bestselling novel about the murder of a respected doctor and his beautiful young wife charged with the crime. Dr. Gary Lasch, a famous doctor from Greenwich, Connecticut, and founder of the HMO Remington Health Management, is found dead in his home, his skull crushed by a blow from a heavy bronze sculpture, with his wife, Molly, in bed covered with his blood. It was the Lasches' housekeeper, Edna Barry, who made the grisly discovery the morning after Molly's unexpectedly early return from Cape Cod, where she had gone to seclude herself upon learning of her husband's infidelity. As the evidence against Molly grows, her lawyer plea-bargains a manslaughter charge.