It Had To Be You

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I Didn't want to put it down. I cant wait for the next one.

Love anything by Mary Higgins Clark

Kept you guessing until the end

"It Had To Be You," is the eighth installment in the "Under Suspicion" Series by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. (MHC wrote the first book in 2014 before she was joined later that year by Alafair Burke.) I feel quite fortunate as a reader that whatever legal arrangements necessary were made for Alafair Burke to keep writing this series under both their names after MHC died in 2020.I've found that reading a series in order works best for me, but MHC and Alafair Burke have mastered the art of referring to characters from previous books in a way that explains their relationship to the people in the current action without giving away the plot of the older books. Indeed, such references always made me want to go back and find the previous book if I had not already read it. My point is that no reader should be deterred from starting this series with Book Number 8, but I'll be surprised if it doesn't make them want to go back to the previous books to see how the important relationships developed over time.That said, "It Had To Be You," was another thriller. Protagonist Laurie Moran headed up the production team of the television series, "Under Suspicion," which tackled cold cases that were never solved, leaving one or more possibly innocent people convicted in the court of popular opinion and in the minds of friends, family, potential employers and the community as a whole. Ms. Moran sought out those who might like to have their names cleared by the show's investigators. In this book, twin brothers were suspected of having killed their parents, either together or separately. Both brothers claimed the other did it, and the only person close to being an eyewitness couldn't be sure which brother he saw in the vicinity close to the time of the crime. The brothers would have nothing to do with each other and neither really wanted to examine the ten-year-old case for fear of opening old wounds. Their younger sister talked them into it, anyway. She, of course, was firmly convinced that both brothers were innocent and was relying on Laurie to prove it.Laurie and her team followed all old leads and discovered ones that had been ignored once the original investigators settled on the twins as the only people who knew the codes to the security gate and to the family home, who knew the security cameras weren't working, who drove a very recognizable vehicle, and whose presence wouldn't have invoked the wrath of the family's dog. As Laurie and her team challenged the accuracy of the key eyewitness, other possibilities emerged, but none stronger than the case against the brothers. The ending couldn't have been a bigger surprise or more satisfying. I am hopeful that the Under Suspicion Series will continue!

Enjoyed this book immensely.