Kate Connolly is in a coma. Gus Schmidt is dead. The
Connolly Fine Antiques Reproductions factory rests in ruins in Long Island City
from a massive explosion that was obviously set. What were Kate, and former
employee Gus doing in the museum section of her family’s furniture factory at 4
AM.?
Since the boating accident that claimed the life of Kate and
Hannah’s mother and uncle there has been something not quite right. Hannah,
just a baby when the accident occurred, is now a promising clothing designer, older
sister Kate a highly respected CPA. Douglas Connolly, the girl’s father, seems
to have lost interest in the factory, and his daughters, and turned over the
everyday business to a man named Jack Worth. Clyde Hotchkiss is a decorated
Vietnam War veteran who has been living on the streets for nearly 30 years and lately
sleeping in a wrecked Connolly factory van. Is he responsible for the death of a young
college student whose body was found floating in the river? And, did he have
anything to do with the disappearance of a young actress, twenty-eight years
ago? Or, was that Jack Worth?
Mary Higgins Clark, infamous for her one-page chapters,
spins a yarn in “Daddy’s Gone A Hunting” that dates back almost 30 years. With a
master’s touch for suspense she brings together seemingly unrelated characters
into a scenario of intrigue and mind-boggling bewilderment. Nothing is ever
what it seems in Clark’s books. You always have to look beneath and beyond the
obvious. What was the meaning of the recurring dream in Kate’s coma? What were Kate's only spoken words? They pretty much tell all.
