Just Take
My Heart: A Novel - In her new thriller, America's #1
bestselling Queen of Suspense
delves into a legal battle over the guilt or innocence of a man accused
of murdering his wife. Woven into her plot is an eerie,
little-understood but documented medical phenomenon -- the emergence of
a donor's traits and memories in the recipient of a heart transplant.
Natalie
Raines, one of Broadway's brightest stars, accidentally discovers who
killed her former roommate and sets in motion a series of shocking
events that puts more than one life in extreme peril. While
Natalie and her roommate, Jamie Evans, were both struggling young
actresses, Jamie had been involved with a mysterious married man to
whom she referred only by nickname. Natalie comes face to face with him
years later and inadvertently addresses him by the nickname Jamie had
used. A few days later, Natalie is found in her home in Closter, New
Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound. Immediately the police
suspect Natalie's theatrical agent and soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg
Aldrich. He had long been a "person of interest" and was known to have
stalked Natalie to find out if she was seeing another man. But no
charges are brought against him until two years later, when Jimmy
Easton, a career criminal, suddenly comes forward to claim that Aldrich
had tried to hire him to kill his wife. Easton knows details about the
Aldrich home that only someone who had been there -- to plan a murder,
for instance -- could possibly know. The case is a plum
assignment for Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old
assistant prosecutor. As she spends increasingly long hours preparing
for the trial, a seemingly well-meaning neighbor offers to take care of
her dog in her absence. Unaware of his violent past, she gives him a
key to her home...
As Aldrich's trial is making headlines, her
boss warns Emily that this high-profile case will reveal personal
matters about her, such as the fact that she had a heart transplant.
And, during the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all
reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is decided by the jury.
In the meantime, she does not realize that
her own life is now at risk.
A compelling novel that probes the mysteries
of the human heart and mind, Just Take My Heart is Mary Higgins
Clark's most spellbinding tale.
On
the Street Where You Live - Emily Graham knows what it's
like to have enemies. The pretty New York
attorney--a millionaire due to a lucky stock market break--has been
sued by her greedy ex-husband and stalked by a man who thinks she
helped his mother's murderer escape punishment. But when she buys her
great-great-grandmother's childhood home in the sleepy resort town of
Spring Lake, Emily thinks her new life will be saner, even though five
other young women, including Emily's ancestor Madeline Shapley, have
disappeared from Spring Lake under creepy circumstances over the past
century.
No sooner has Emily moved in than she starts
receiving frightening,
anonymous messages. Worse, when she breaks ground for a backyard pool,
the backhoe brings up the body of Martha Lawrence, who vanished four
years ago, and whose dead hand clutches the finger bone of Madeline
Shapley, identified by her sapphire ring. Both women disappeared on
September 7, 105 years apart. When the cops and Emily realize that a
similar parallel exists between two other missing women and that the
anniversary of yet another girl's disappearance is fast approaching,
they quickly surmise that a sixth murder will be attempted in just a
week. But by whom? Is today's serial killer a copycat of the Spring
Lake murderer of the 1890s--or a reincarnation? Fueled by fear, anger,
and scary little notes from the killer, Emily's actively researching
the murders, but even she doesn't realize how many suspects there are:
the retired college president, who's being blackmailed, and his
perpetually angry wife; the town's bankrupt restaurateur with a
weakness for pretty blondes; the middle-aged detective with his finger
right on the pulse of the crimes. Even Emily's friend Eric, the
software CEO who made her rich, and Nick, her new coworker, seem to
show up at suspiciously convenient times.
Mary Higgins Clark's
cast of characters may be overly large; in going for quantity she
skimps on the characterization, and all of them, including Emily, are
as wooden as Al Gore. But characterization isn't what's made this
24-book author a bestseller-list regular. The cleverly complex plot
gallops along at a great clip, the little background details are au
courant, and the identities of both murderers come as an enjoyable
surprise. On the Street Where You Live just may be Clark's best
in years.
Before
I Say Good-Bye - When
Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, Cornelia II, blows up in New York
harbor
with him and several close business associates aboard, his wife, Nell
MacDermott
is not only distraught at the loss but wracked with guilt because she
and
Adam had just had a serious quarrel and she had told him not to come
home.
As Nell searches for the truth about Adam's death, she carries out
instructions
from Adam transmitted through the medium. What she does not know is
that
she is being closely watched, and the nearer she comes to learning what
actually happened on the boat that night, the nearer she is to becoming
the next victim of a ruthless killer.
We'll
Meet Again - An intense mystery that will hold you until the
end! Filled with the ingredients that Mary Higgins Clark
devotees will
devour: fast-paced suspense, double-crossing villains, romantic
intrigue, and a resounding showdown at the end. Harder to swallow is
the excessive use of theatricals whenever the author describes a
satanic like HMO, and its legion of evil doctors. The darkest knight of
all is Peter Black, whose eyes "were cold, angry, menacing--certainly
not the eyes of a healer." Still, melodrama aside, Higgins Clark still
knows how to spin a good yarn.
Her heroine in We'll Meet Again is
an investigative reporter named Fran Simmons, who is not unlike the
bright, resourceful Dr. Susan Chandler in You
Belong to Me. Fran has just been hired to work on a popular new TV
show called True Crime.
Coincidentally, her very first assignment involves an ex-pupil from her
old high school, the posh Cranden Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Molly Lasch had been incarcerated in her mid-20s, accused of
pulverizing her husband's head with a Remington bronze sculpture. The
murder of this community doctor, and chief executive officer of a local
HMO, stunned Greenwich.
For half a decade Molly claimed to have
no memory of the event, but now out on parole, slivers of memory
trickle back--and Molly informs the press that someone else was in the
house at the time of her husband's murder. Few people believe her--even
less so when a key witness from the original trial is stabbed to death
and evidence links Molly to the scene of the crime. It's up to the ever
vigilant Fran to investigate what the police won't--and she unearths
some very dark and extremely dirty secrets that will further shock the
quiet community.
All
Through the Night - All
Through the Night
is virtually free of life-and-death crime. Rather, it is a Dickensian
tale
of good deeds rewarded and crimes punished. The story
opens with a young,
unmarried woman who abandons her newborn child on the steps of a church
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Lenny
Centino is robbing
that same church on the same night, with his attention particularly on
the Church's diamond inlaid chalice. He finds a buggy outside the
church
and uses it for cover as he flees. Only later does he realize that his
take for the night includes the infant Stellina (Italian for star). The
narrative then abruptly moves ahead seven years...
Weep
No More My Lady: A
Suspense Story - From the
Publisher Cypress Point
-- the ultimate California spa where the rich and famous pursue health
and beauty in unalloyed luxury. But lovely young Elizabeth Lange is
after
something else: the truth about the death of her beloved sister -- a
famous
actress who plunged from the balcony of her Manhattan penthouse. What
she
finds will determine the fate of Ted Winters, the handsome business
tycoon
who stands accused of her murder. Against a Monterey background that
sparkles
with sun, money, mand glamour, Elizabeth stalks shadows that darken
with
dread and danger... shadows that threaten to reveal the stunning truth
about her sister -- and herself.
Where
Are the Children? - A book
that you cannot put down! Here
is the novel that established Mary Higgins Clark as one of today's most
phenomenally successful authors. After a terrible marriage and the
tragic
deaths of her two children, Nancy changes her name, hair, and residence
and finally finds peace until the nightmare begins again.
Deck
the Halls - Mary Higgins
Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling
author
Carol Higgins Clark, have joined forces for the first time to create a
brilliant and exciting story of high-stakes intrigue and detection in a
kidnapping played out against a holiday setting.
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