The story is 138 pages long. It is written about events that happened in two weeks in characters life, but it includes everything that has happened in last 15 years –memories, facts and relations.
“Love music? Single, professional male seeks attractive, trusting female, age 22 -34. If you adore Fred Astaire and long to fox –trot, let’s dance. I promise you, if you tango with me, you’ll never dance with anyone else again. Call me, I’m waiting for you.”
This is how the author Mary Higgins Clark introduces you with hero of the story –a serial killer who leaves each of his victims wearing one high –heeled dancing slipper. He attracts his victims through personal ads a New York City’s trendy magazines. When he says in his advertisement –if you tango with me, you’ll never dance with anyone else again –that doesn’t means that he’s a gorgeous dancer –it means that you are going to be killed.
It all started in March 12, during spring break. He- Charley – was in love with Nan. He bought a present for her –high heeled dancing slippers and wanted to surprise her on birthday. She wasn’t happy about his present and told him to leave, but he thrown her to the ground, squeezed her throat until Nan’s arms stopped flailing. Charley fastened slippers on her feet and danced with Nan. After that he gone, he had left one slipper on her foot.
Since that fifteen years have been gone away, but still Charley couldn’t stop killing young girls leaving one slipper on their foot. 7 young girls -7 bodies in the freezer at his own home.
Story tells about girls he has been killed and one of last ones supposed to be Darcy Scott. Young women who 4 years has been working in an advertising agency and after that passed to interior designing. Her parents were famous actors –Barbara Thorne and Robert Scott. The other victim was Erin Kelley. Both of them were roommates in college and now at the age 28 they were very close. One day they decided to answer to ads in local newspaper and started going out. There was one add they both answered to. Guess who was the author?
One day Chris Sheridan –Nan’s twin brother working in his office got a message from his assistant Sarah Johnson that his mother Greta is waiting for him to answer the call. And what she said was that she got a mail where was written that in memory of Nan, a dancing girl from Manhattan is going to die on the evening of February 19 in exactly the way Nan did. She was scared and asked for her son is there anyone that they could warn?
