“The body was stretched out on the bed, face up: fixed eyes, twisted lips, an expression of painful protest. Everything is as it should be. Most suicides change their mind when nothing can be changed... Did he miss something? No. Her purse with keys is on the chair, the remains of cyanide in the glass. Should I leave her in her coat or undress her? Let him be in a coat. The less you touch her, the better.” Assistant District Attorney Katie Demaio gets into an accident and ends up in a clinic, where she accidentally witnesses a murder that she considers just a nightmare. But for the killer she poses a threat, and now Katie’s life is in danger, because there is nothing more terrible than a brilliant doctor who has set foot on the path of evil. Here is a gripping novel by the recognized queen of the detective genre, Mary Higgins Clark, “And the Cradle Will Fall” - a terrible journey into the recesses of the soul an embittered genius.