"What ever happened to the run away bride?"
Reviewed by Sandra Wurman
Posted March 7, 2016
Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery
ALL DRESSED IN WHITE by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair
Burke is the second Under Suspicion story revolving
around television producer Laurie Moran. Laurie produces
a Cold Case program. In ALL DRESSED IN WHITE Laurie is
approached by the mother of a bride who disappeared the
day before her wedding. The authorities have for the most
part treated it as a bride who got cold feet. The bride
Amanda Pierce has never been found seen since her
disappearance. A true cold case, no leads, no body,
seemingly no motive. In ALL DRESSED IN WHITE Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair
Burke really give us a chance to play detective. The
reader gets to follow along and see any clues large and
small. Here's a hint for all you arm chair
detectives—
unless you skip to the end—cheat—you will never
guess
the ending. Definitely my kind of story and even though
it is part of a series ALL DRESSED IN WHITE is
independently terrific. I actually finished this fabulous whodunit a few weeks
ago prior to writing this review. All I had to do was
open to the first page and the story unfolded once again
right before my eyes. It is that engrossing. Amanda Pierce is at a lavish hotel
for her dream wedding weekend. Her marriage to her
college friend was a fait accompli, but from the
very
first page we realize Amanda has some doubts. People call
it cold feet—perfectly natural. Getting married is a
big step. Amanda was surrounded by family and friends. When Laurie
Moran is approached by Amanda's mother Sandra, she
initially can't believe that with all the media coverage
there still was no resolution to Amanda's whereabouts. How
can someone just vanish? But isn't that the premise of a
cold case. Except in Sandra's opinion this wasn't a case
where the leads dried up—she is convinced the
authorities didn't think of Amanda's disappearance as
foul play but rather a flight from the altar by a
capricious
young woman. So Laurie and her crew set off for the hotel to set it up
to look just like the wedding weekend. Everyone agreed to
come so they could help reenact the events leading
up to Amanda's disappearance. This is to be a very
difficult for family and friends who have valiantly moved
on with their lives. Or have they. In ALL DRESSED IN WHITE everyone looks innocent and
guilty depending on what page you are on. So many
characters had issues, and most of their
lives are still impacted by the events of that fateful
weekend. They all really need closure. ALL DRESSED IN
WHITE is about a mother's love and
her inability to close the door on any possibility that
something happened to her daughter. Amanda would never have
left
her family or left her mother in limbo with
their collective broken hearts. As we learn, the
authorities did not do their job, and now it's Laurie's
task to sort through the maze of information to hopefully
come to a conclusion. Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair
Burke take you on a voyage of discovery of truth.
Hint—the
truth has been
buried all these years. Not all cold cases are
ultimately solved but we can hope.
SUMMARY
The second thrilling novel in the New York Times
bestselling
Under Suspicion series following The Cinderella Murder,
featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she
investigates the case of a missing bride. Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to
marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The
Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests
and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New York City, Laurie Moran realizes a
missing bride is the perfect cold case for her
investigative
television series, Under Suspicion. She and her team set
out
to recreate the night of the disappearance at the Florida
resort with Amanda’s friends and family in attendance,
hoping to shed new light on the mystery as the series has
done in past episodes. With a jealous sister, playboy
groomsmen, Amanda’s former fiancé now married to a
bridesmaid, and rumors about the “beloved” bride herself,
Laurie and Under Suspicion host Alex Buckley quickly
realize
everyone has a theory about why Amanda vanished into thin
air.
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