Motifs

A motif is a recurring theme, subject, or idea. I think the motif in the book Weep No More My Lady would be suspicion. Everyone gets suspicious in life, for example your best friend is acting strange around your brother, and you become suspicious because you know she is up to something.

Suspicion comes naturally to the characters in this book. Mary Higgins Clark planted suspicion in their blood. Of course, everyone gets to be suspicious in a murder case. Suspicion can lead to terrible things, like suspecting someone is doing something they aren't, and they can become so offended it ends your relationship with them. The characters in Weep No More My Lady know all about suspicion.

"Don't you think Ted killed her?" "It couldn't have been him, I bet it was the agent!" I would have to say the motif in Mary Higgins Clark's book is suspicion.

For example, Elvis Presley's song Suspicious Minds. http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elvis+presley/suspicious+minds_20049671.html