All Dressed in White

All Dressed in White is one of Mary Higgins Clark’s late career novels in her Under Suspicion series, co written with Alafair Burke. The series follows Laurie Moran, a television producer who hosts a special investigations program that takes on cold cases in which someone close to the victim has fallen under suspicion but never been formally charged. Each book centers on a new case, with Laurie’s team digging into the original investigation while complications develop in her own life around the production.

In this entry, the case involves the disappearance of a bride from her own destination wedding five years earlier. Amanda Pierce vanished from her Florida resort just hours before she was supposed to walk down the aisle. The groom, the maid of honor, the best man, and the bride’s family have all been quietly suspected by various interested parties since the disappearance, but nothing has ever been proven. Laurie’s program is going to bring all of them back together at the resort to revisit the case on camera, and the production turns out to be considerably more dangerous than anyone had expected.

The Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke partnership produced several Under Suspicion novels across the late 2010s, with Burke handling much of the actual prose and Clark providing the structural ideas and the brand of suspense her readers had been following for decades. The collaboration worked because Burke is an accomplished thriller writer in her own right, with her own legal procedural background, and the books deliver the kind of carefully plotted suspense that Clark’s audience expected with the polish of an active working writer.

The Under Suspicion series gives Clark room to handle multiple cases through the same recurring cast, and the television production framing lets her keep the procedural elements interesting without having to invent new investigators in every book. For longtime Mary Higgins Clark fans, All Dressed in White is a satisfying late entry. For new readers, the series can be picked up at any point and works as accessible domestic suspense.