In Mary Higgins Clark's new suspense thriller, YOU BELONG TO ME (Simon & Schuster, $25). Lakes long gone where there is desert now, long time gone, long time gone.'' The wonder of these voices is that they are also blunt and crude, soaked in whisky and raspy from laughter, but still capable of leaving echoes.Īs your cruise ship glides through tropical waters and an attentive stranger dances you on deck to look at the moon, try really hard not to think about Regina, Monica, Veronica and Constance, whose shipboard romances with a sexy psychopath prove fatal ''Them Horned Star People come up Red River in their boats, through the mist, the ''You like this story,'' Du Pre's wife tells him. Poetic tongues that are guaranteed to draw you to the campfire. Other characters contribute dreams and ghost sightings, speaking in rough Restoration of the peace falls to Gabriel Du Pre, a part-Indian lawman with a mystical attachment to his ancestral past and its legends.ĭu Pre has the best visions in this haunting narrative - of prehistoric times when giant mammoths and mastodons fled before the rivers of ice flowing out of the Wolf Mountains. When the Indians start fighting over the bones and rival archeologists start slugging it out over the dinosaur, the

Treasures - a dinosaur tooth and some skeletons of an ancient race known to local Indians as the Horned Star People. Martin's, $22.95) rearranges the monotonous topography by lifting mountains, shooting out fresh springs and heaving up two long-buried

Lot of nothing.'' The earthquake that hits this lonesome land in THUNDER HORSE (St. Browse an archive of crime and mystery fiction reviewed by Marilyn Stasio since January 1997Įter Bowen's strange, seductive mysteries are set in the cattle-ranching country of eastern Montana, where the major scenic attraction is ''a whole.

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