Within a riveting psychological thriller, Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories could be the most dangerous things of most.

At the center of her novel is Kay Lansing, who is continuing to grow up in Englewood, NJ, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. Their mansion — a historic seventeenth-century manor home transported rock by stone from Wales in 1848 — includes a hidden chapel. 1 day, accompanying her father to about I Heard That Melody Before: A Book function, six-year-old Kay succumbs to interest and sneaks in to the chapel. There, she overhears a quarrel between a man and a female who is challenging cash from him. When she says that will be the last time, his caustic response is usually: ‘I heard that melody before.’

That same night, the Carringtons keep a formal supper dance after which Peter Carrington, a student at Princeton, drives home Susan Althorp, the eighteen-year-old child of neighbours. While her parents hear her come in, she is not really in her space the next morning and is hardly ever seen or heard from again.

Throughout the years, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Peter Carrington. At age group forty-two, head of the family business empire, he’s still ‘a person of curiosity’ in the eyes of the police, not only for Susan Althorp’s disappearance but also for the subsequent drowning loss of life of his personal pregnant wife within their swimming pool.

Kay Lansing, right now living in New York and working being a librarian in Englewood, goes to observe Peter Carrington to require permission to hold a cocktail party on his estate to benefit a literacy system, which he afterwards grants. Kay comes to observe Peter as maligned and misinterpreted, and when he begins to court her after the cocktail party, she falls deeply in love with him. Within the objections of her beloved grandmother Margaret O’Neil, who elevated her after her parents’ early fatalities, she marries him. To her dismay, she soon finds that he is a sleepwalker whose nocturnal wanderings draw him to the location on the pool where his wife met her end.

Susan Althorp’s mom, Gladys, has always been confident that Peter Carrington is in charge of her daughter’s disappearance, a belief distributed by many in the community. Disregarding her husband’s protests about reopening the situation, Gladys, today terminally ill, provides employed a retired NEW YORK detective to try to find out what happened to her daughter. Gladys really wants to know before she dies.

Kay, too, has developed gnawing uncertainties about her husband. She believes that the key to the reality about his guilt or innocence lies in the picture she witnessed as a kid in the chapel and understands she must learn the identity of the man and girl who quarreled there that day time. Yet, she plunges into this quest recognizing that ‘that knowledge may not be enough to save lots of my husband’s lifestyle, if indeed it deserves to be preserved.’ What Kay will not even remotely suspect can be that uncovering what lays behind these thoughts may cost her her very own life.

I Noticed That Track Before once again dramatically reconfirms Mary Higgins Clark’s worldwide status as a master storyteller.