Mary Higgins Clark
A Cry In The Night
Mary Higgins Clark
When Jenny MacPartland meets the man of her dreams while working in a New York art gallery, she's ecstatic. Painter Erich Krueger -- whose exquisite landscapes are making him a huge success -- is handsome, sensitive...and utterly in love with her. They marry quickly and Jenny plans a loving home on Erich's vast Minnesota farm. But lonely days and eerie nights strain her nerves to the breaking point and test her sanity. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Jenny soon unearths a past more terrifying than she dares imagine...tragic secrets that threaten her marriage, her children, her life.
A la vie, à la mort
Mary Higgins Clark
Nous sommes au milieu de l’été. La célèbre productrice de l’émission Suspicion, Laurie Moran, et son fiancé Alex Buckley, récemment nommé juge fédéral, sont à quelques jours de leur mariage. Mais les préparatifs tournent au cauchemar lorsque le neveu d’Alex, Johnny, disparaît sur la plage.
Des témoins racontent avoir vu le garçon de sept ans jouant dans l’eau et ramassant des coquillages derrière une cabane. Puis plus rien...
Tandis qu’une course contre la montre s’engage, de lourds secrets de famille remontent à la surface. Pour la première fois, Laurie, qui a consacré sa carrière à résoudre des affaires classées, doit affronter son propre drame...
À la vie, à la mort
Mary Higgins Clark
Nous sommes au milieu de l’été. La célèbre productrice de l’émission Suspicion, Laurie Moran, et son fiancé Alex Buckley, récemment nommé juge fédéral, sont à quelques jours de leur mariage. Mais les préparatifs tournent au cauchemar lorsque le neveu d’Alex, Johnny, disparaît sur la plage.
Des témoins racontent avoir vu le garçon de sept ans jouant dans l’eau et ramassant des coquillages derrière une cabane. Puis plus rien...
Tandis qu’une course contre la montre s’engage, de lourds secrets de famille remontent à la surface. Pour la première fois, Laurie, qui a consacré sa carrière à résoudre des affaires classées, doit affronter son propre drame...
All Around the Town
Mary Higgins Clark
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defense, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly. Kidnapped at the age of four and victimized for two years, Laurie has developed astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out—and only then can the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession is stronger than ever, be revealed.
All By Myself, Alone
Mary Higgins Clark
A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from “Queen of Suspense” and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.
Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship—the Queen Charlotte.
On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood, “Lady Em,” as she is known throughout the world. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian after the cruise.
Three days out to sea Lady Em is found dead—and the necklace is missing. Is it the work of her apparently devoted assistant, Brenda Martin, or her lawyer-executor, Roger Pearson, and his wife, Yvonne, both of whom she had invited to join them on the cruise? Or is it Professor Henry Longworth, an acclaimed Shakespeare scholar who is lecturing on board? Or Alan Davidson, a guest on the ship who is planning to spread his wife’s ashes at sea? The list of suspects is large and growing.
Celia, with the help of her new friends Willy and Alvirah Meehan, who are celebrating their forty-fifth wedding anniversary, sets out to find the killer, not realizing that she has put herself in mortal danger before the ship reaches its final destination.
Never, in all her long career as a #1 bestselling suspense novelist, has Mary Higgins Clark been in better form.
All Dressed in White (Under Suspicion, #3)
Mary Higgins Clark
The second in the thrilling New York Times bestselling series from Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, follows television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the cold case of a bride who went missing days before her wedding.Five years ago, Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart. She and Jeffrey had already battled through sickness and health, although their livelihoods looked set as Amanda was due to inherit her father’s successful garment company. Then Amanda disappeared the night of her bachelorette party. In present-day New York, Laurie Moran realizes a missing bride is the perfect cold case for her Under Suspicion television series to investigate. By recreating the night of the disappearance at the wedding’s Florida resort with Amanda’s friends and family, Laurie hopes to solve the case. Laurie and her Under Suspicion host Alex Buckley soon find themselves overwhelmed with theories and rumors about the “beloved” bride from those who were involved with the wedding, including Amanda’s former fiancé, a jealous sister, and plenty of playboy groomsmen. One thing is certain, whoever was behind Amanda’s vanishing plans to keep the truth hidden “until death do they part.”
All Through the Night
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters.
All of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears. Seven years later, the mother returns to the scene and finds Alvirah and Willy helping neighborhood kids prepare for a Christmas pageant at an after-school shelter. Soon the savvy sleuths set out to solve the puzzle of the missing child and chalice -- and to unmask scam artists threatening to shut down the shelter.
A Morte Usa uma Máscara de Beleza
Mary Higgins Clark
Em 1974, Mary Higgins Clark começou a escrever uma novela inspirada no mundo da moda nova-iorquino. Interrompeu-a para escrever o seu primeiro romance, Onde Estão as Crianças?, que a projetou para o sucesso internacional. Quarenta anos mais tarde, a autora regressa a essa novela para a concluir e surpreender todos mais uma vez com o seu talento ímpar como contadora de histórias.
Desde o seu primeiro conto publicado a histórias clássicas onde figuram algumas das personagens mais inesquecíveis da autora, A Morte Usa Uma Máscara de Beleza é uma primorosa coleção de contos que nos emociona e nos deixa o coração a bater mais depressa, como é característico da Rainha do Suspense.
Asesinato en directo
Mary Higgins Clark
A los tres años, Timmy fue el único testigo del asesinato de su padre. Solo él le vio la cara al culpable. Cinco años después todavía tiene pesadillas y recuerda con ansiedad los ojos azules y penetrantes del asesino; pero a su madre, Laurie, lo que más le atormenta es la amenaza que le hizo a su hijo: «Dile a tu madre que la próxima vez le tocará a ella y después a ti».
Ahora otro crimen ocupa la vida de Laurie, aunque esta vez como productora de un programa de televisión sobre casos sin resolver.
El primer episodio gira en torno al asesinato de Betsy Powell. Hace veinte años, Betsy fue asfixiada en su cama después de haber celebrado una gran fiesta en su casa por la graduación de su hija. Los que estuvieron presentes esa noche han aceptado participar en el programa y en la reconstrucción del crimen, pero desde el inicio de la grabación resulta evidente que cada uno esconde más de un secreto. Además, aunque Laurie aún no lo sepa, una persona de afilados ojos azules está observándolo todo muy de cerca.
Un revelador ejemplo del poder de la televisión de la mano de la inimitable reina del suspense.
As Time Goes By (Alvirah and Willy, #10)
Mary Higgins Clark
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband.Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. When Delaney’s friends Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy offer to look into the mystery surrounding her birth, they uncover a shocking secret they do not want to reveal.On trial for murder is Betsy Grant, widow of a wealthy doctor who has been an Alzheimer’s victim for eight years. When her once-upon-a-time celebrity lawyer urges her to accept a plea bargain, Betsy refuses: she will go to trial to prove her innocence.Betsy’s stepson, Alan Grant, bides his time nervously as the trial begins. His substantial inheritance hangs in the balance—his only means of making good on payments he owes his ex-wife, his children, and increasingly angry creditors.As the trial unfolds, and the damning evidence against Betsy piles up, Delaney is convinced that Betsy is not guilty and frantically tries to prove her innocence. A true classic from Mary Higgins Clark, As Time Goes By is a thrilling read by a master of the genre.
A Stranger Is Watching
Mary Higgins Clark
Ronald Thompson knows he is not guilty of the murder for which he is about to be executed. There are only two days left to unmask the real villain - a terrifying psychopath who has killed before and has unfinished business with his victim's family.
Before I Say Goodbye
Mary Higgins Clark
A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, Before I Say Good-Bye.
When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home.
As the investigation into the boat's explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skepticism, Nell is swayed by her great-aunt Gert, a believer in psychic powers, to see a medium claiming to be Adam's channel.
While trying to unravel the threads of Adam's past and his violent end, Nell consults the medium, who transmits messages to her with instructions from Adam. The story reaches a powerful climax in Nell's final encounter with the medium, in which she learns the truth about the explosion--a truth she can't be allowed to live to tell.
Cette chanson que je n'oublierai jamais
Mary Higgins Clark
Une ritournelle lancinante trotte dans la tête de Kay. D’où vient-elle ? Que signifie-t-elle ? Pourquoi l’obsède-t-elle à ce point ?
En plongeant dans ses souvenirs, la jeune femme revoit une scène un peu floue, lorsqu’elle était enfant, dans la propriété des Carrington où elle a grandi. Depuis, Kay a épousé Peter, l’héritier de la famille. Mais des soupçons planent sur son époux à propos de la disparition d’une jeune fille et la mort accidentelle de son ex-femme, retrouvée noyée dans la piscine, Peter est emprisonné… Convaincue de son innocence, Kay se lance sur la piste de cette musique sans savoir qu’elle recèle un secret très dangereux – pour elle, et pour lui.
Cuando despiertes (Bajo sospecha, #4)
Mary Higgins Clark
Cuarto libro de la serie protagonizada por la reportera e investigadora Laurie Morgan y el equipo del programa de televisión Bajo sospecha.
Casey Carter fue condenada a prisión por el homicidio de su prometido, el famoso filántropo Hunter Raleigh III. Un crimen que entonces negaba y aún ahora niega haber cometido. Quince años después, habiendo cumplido su condena, aún no se ha librado de las miradas de quienes la consideran una asesina.
Su historia parece un caso ideal para aparecer en el programa televisivo dirigido por Laurie Morgan, Bajo sospecha. Es la última oportunidad de Casey para limpiar su nombre. Laurie promete hacer todo lo posible para conseguirlo.
La reportera investigadora, sin embargo, deberá enfrentarse a un nuevo y ególatra jefe, a un columnista de cotilleos cuya curiosidad no parece conocer límites y a la mala reputación de la mujer a quien ha decidido ayudar. Todo ello para hacer lo que ella considera correcto y demostrar la inocencia de Casey de una vez por todas... si es que alguna vez fue inocente.
Daddy's Gone A Hunting
Mary Higgins Clark
In her latest novel Mary Higgins Clark, the beloved, bestselling "Queen of Suspense," exposes a dark secret from a family's past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years.
The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was Kate—tall, gorgeous, blond, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer—doing in the museum when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? What if someone isn't who he claims to be?
Now Gus is dead, and Kate lies in the hospital badly injured and in a coma, so neither can tell what drew them there, or what the tragedy may have to do with the hunt for a young woman missing for many years, nor can they warn that somebody may be covering his tracks, willing to kill to save himself . . .
Step by step, in a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Mary Higgins Clark once again demonstrates the mastery of her craft that has made her books international bestsellers for years. She presents the reader with a perplexing mystery, a puzzling question of identity, and a fascinating cast of characters—one of whom may just be a ruthless killer . . .
Daddy's Little Girl
Mary Higgins Clark
"From Mary Higgins Clark, America's bestselling "Queen of Suspense," comes a dark and chilling story of murder, and its effects years later on the man convicted of the crime and the woman who helped convict him." Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea, was murdered near their home in Oldham-on-the-Hudson, a rural village in New York's Westchester County. There were three suspects: Rob Westerfield, nineteen-year-old scion of a wealthy, prominent family, whom Andrea had been secretly dating; Paul Stroebel, a sixteen-year-old schoolmate, who had a crush on Andrea; and Will Nebels, a local handyman in his forties.
It was Ellie who had led her parents to a hideout in which Andrea's body was found -- a secret hideaway in which she met her friends. And it was Ellie who was blamed by her parents for her sister's death for not telling them about this place the night Andrea was missing. It was also Ellie's testimony that led to the conviction of the man she was firmly convinced was the killer. Steadfastly denying his guilt, he spent the next twenty-two years in prison.
When he comes up for parole, Ellie, now an investigative reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, protests his release. Nonetheless, the convicted killer is set free and returns to Oldham. Determined to thwart his attempts to whitewash his reputation, Ellie also returns to Oldham, intent on proving his guilt. As she delves deeper into her research, however, she uncovers horrifying facts that shed new light on her sister's murder. With each discovery, she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer.
Gripping and relentlessly compelling, "Daddy's Little Girl," aportrayal of a family shattered by crime, reflects Mary Higgins Clark's uncanny insight into the twisted mind of a killer and is further evidence of why she is America's favorite author of suspense.
Dashing Through the Snow
Mary Higgins Clark
From beloved mother-daughter duo Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, and Carol Higgins Clark, author of the hugely popular Regan Reilly mystery series, comes Dashing Through the Snow , a holiday treat you won't want to miss.
In the picturesque village of Branscombe, New Hampshire, the townsfolk are all pitching in to prepare for the first (and many hope annual) Festival of Joy. The night before the festival begins, a group of employees at the local market learn that they have won $160 million in the lottery. One of their co-workers, Duncan, decided at the last minute, on the advice of a pair of crooks masquerading as financial advisers, not to play. Then he goes missing. A second winning lottery ticket was purchased in the next town, but the winner hasn't come forward. Could Duncan have secretly bought it?
The Clarks' endearing heroes -- Alvirah Meehan, the amateur sleuth, and private investigator Regan Reilly -- have arrived in Branscombe for the festival. They are just the people to find out what is amiss. As they dig beneath the surface, they find that life in Branscombe is not as tranquil as it appears. So much for an old-fashioned weekend in the country. This fast-paced holiday caper will keep you dashing through the pages!
Deck the Halls
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, has joined forces with her daughter, bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark, to create a brilliant and exciting story of high stakes, intrigue and detection in a kidnapping played out against a holiday setting.
Three days before Christmas, Alvirah Meehan, the famous lottery winner and amateur detective, meets Regan in a New Jersey dentist's office. Regan is there in search of her busy father, who is scheduled for a routine visit. However, it is soon apparent that Luke Reilly is not going to keep his appointment,
But Regan's worry turns to panic when a call comes through on her cell phone telling her that her father and his driver Rosita Gonzalez, are being held for $1,000,000 ransom. She turns to Alvirah, because although Regan is a licensed detective in L.A., it is Alvirah who has the valuable contacts amongst the ranks of New York's law enforcement community.
As Regan and Alvirah desperately try to meet the harsh demands and tough deadline of the kidnappers, Luke and Rosita, held captive on a decrepit houseboat
moored in the Hudson River, are becoming increasingly terrified. And to make matters worse, a winter storm is gathering, putting their lives in even greater danger ...
'Deck The Halls' is filled with twists and turns , intrigue and danger, as well as a hearty dose of holiday cheer. Mary and Carol Higgins Clark have created a breathless yet heartwarming story of suspense in their first collaboration - a Christmas classic for many holiday seasons to come.
Dernière Danse
Mary Higgins Clark
De si belles fiançailles
Mary Higgins Clark
“Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth book in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; when TV producer Laurie Moran investigates an unsolved murder, she becomes entangled in a web of long-buried secrets and begins to wonder if her own life is in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots revenge.
De si belles fiançailles (French Edition)
Mary Higgins Clark
Depuis ses fiançailles, Laurie Moran, l'enquêtrice star de l'émission Suspicion, nage en plein conte de fées : mariage et lune de miel prévus à l'été prochain ! C'est sans compter sa nouvelle enquête qui risque de bouleverser ses projets... Un couple vient en effet de la solliciter pour rouvrir un dossier vieux de cinq ans : le meurtre jamais élucidé de leur fils, assassiné devant sa résidence de Greenwich Village. Principale suspecte : la femme du défunt, que ses beaux-parents accusent du crime, mais qui bien sûr s'en défend.Pourtant, alors que l'émission serait l'occasion de se laver des soupçons qui pèsent sur elle, celle-ci refuse de témoigner. Pourquoi ? Qui pouvait en vouloir à cette star de la neurologie, père et mari idéal ? Cette famille modèle avait-elle des secrets à cacher ?Après La Reine du bal, le duo de choc Mary Higgins Clark - Alafair Burke nous plonge dans les milieux huppés de New York, plus troubles qu'il n'y paraît...
Dos niñas vestidas de azul
Mary Higgins Clark
"Kathy y Kelly son las hijas gemelas de un feliz matrimonio. La tarde de su tercer cumpleaños sus padres dan una gran fiesta para celebrarlo y esa noche salen a cenar, dejándolas al cuidado de una niñera. Nada les hacía pesagiar que ese mismo día se desencadenaría la mayor tragedia que podía sucederles: el secuestro de las pequeñas. Angustiada, la familia consigue pagar el rescate que les exigen los secuestradores. No obstante, solo les devuelven a Kelly, ya que una de las participantes en el rapto decide quedarse con la hermana. Lo que nadie sospecha es que Kathy y Kelly comparten algo más que un fisico idéntico: pueden commincarse por telepatia en un lenguaje que solo ellas comparten..."--Cover, p. 4.
El asesinato de Cenicienta (Under Suspicion, #2)
Mary Higgins Clark
Un thriller contemporáneo sobre un reality de televisión que trata de desvelar los misterios de un caso de asesinato sin resolver que conmocionó al mundo en los años noventa.
La productora de televisión Laurie Moran no podría estar más contenta. El episodio piloto de Bajo sospecha ha sido un éxito. Se trata de un reality en el que se examinan casos sin resolver para tratar de desentrañar la verdad. Ahora Laurie tiene en mente un caso perfecto: el «asesinato de Cenicienta», que en los años noventa conmocionó al mundo.
La muerte de Susan Dempsey, una estudiante de la Universidad de California de Los Ángeles, guapa y con mucho talento, suscitó un sinfín de preguntas: ¿Por qué el coche estaba aparcado tan lejos de donde se halló el cadáver? ¿Llegó a presentarse al casting en casa de un prometedor director, Frank Parker? ¿Qué vínculo tenía con una controvertida iglesia del campus? ¿Por qué le faltaba un zapato?
Laurie sabe que este programa puede ser un bombazo, sobre todo porque los sospechosos son ricos magnates de la tecnología o forman parte de la élite de Hollywood. Parece una historia para la gran pantalla ¿pero está listo el asesino de Cenicienta para su primer plano?
With the help of lawyer and Under Suspicion host Alex Buckley, Laurie knows the case will attract great ratings, especially when the former suspects include Hollywood’s elite and tech billionaires. The suspense and drama are perfect for the silver screen -- but is Cinderella’s murderer ready for a close-up?
El último adiós
Mary Higgins Clark
En secret
Mary Higgins Clark
The newest thriller from “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark!When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a “CRyan” describing her “terrible experience” while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a jet ski accident while on holiday.
Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a tricky spot as several more female employees have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct. Carter approaches the CEO, offering to persuade the victims to accept settlements in exchange for their silence. It’s a risky endeavor, but it could well make him rich.
As more allegations emerge, Carter’s attempts to keep the story from making headlines are matched only by Gina Kane’s determination to uncover the truth. Was Ryan’s death truly an accident? And when another accuser turns up dead, Gina realizes someone—or some people—will go to depraved lengths to keep the story from seeing the light.
Every Breath You Take (Under Suspicion, #5)
Mary Higgins Clark
“Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; Every Breath You Take follows television producer’s Laurie Moran investigation of the unsolved Met Gala murder—in which a wealthy widow was pushed to her death from the famous museum’s rooftop.
Laurie Moran’s professional life is a success—her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can’t stand—Ryan Nichols—and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family.
Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and one of the museum’s most generous donors, was found in the snow, after being thrown from the museum’s roof on the night of its most celebrated fundraiser, the Met Gala. The leading suspect then and now is her much younger boyfriend and personal trainer, Ivan Gray.
Ivan runs a trendy, successful boutique gym called Punch—a business funded in no small part by the late Virginia—which happens to be the gym Ryan frequents. Laurie’s skepticism about the case is upended by a tip from her father’s NYPD connection, and soon Laurie realizes there are a bevy of suspects—including Virginia’s trusted inner circle.
As the Under Suspicion crew pries into the lives of a super wealthy real estate family with secrets to hide, danger mounts for several witnesses—and for Laurie.
Flieh in die dunkle Nacht
Mary Higgins Clark
Rare Book
Ghost Ship: A Cape Cod Story
Mary Higgins Clark
World-renowned master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark's first picture book is a ghost story set on the Cape Cod coastline and the high seas, and a story of friendship between two boys.
Thomas loved his summer visits to his grandmother's on Cape Cod. He spent hours wondering about the sailing ships of the past and imagining their stories. He dreamed of being on a sailing ship himself. One afternoon after a night of terrible thunderstorms, Thomas finds, deep in the sand, a weathered, old-fashioned belt buckle. When he picks it up, a boy his own age, Silas Rich, who was a cabin boy on a ship called the Monomoy that sailed almost 250 years ago, appears. Suddenly the world of sailing ships is very near as Silas tells his tale.
Beloved and bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark tells a story of mystery and adventure that will transport readers to a time and place beyond their imaginings in her first book for children. Wendell Minor's inspired paintings make a time long ago very real.
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Mary Higgins Clark
The latest Christmas novella from bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark.
It is a few days before Christmas. For forty-six years Sterling has been awaiting his summons into Heaven. Will he be deemed fit for entrance into heaven this year? At last the day comes and the Heavenly Council settles on a test for Sterling - he will be sent back to earth and given an opportunity to prove his worthiness by helping someone else. Sterling Brooks finds himself in Manhattan, at the skating rink in Rockefeller Center. Among the skaters is a heartbroken seven-year-old named Marissa. Her sadness comes from her separation from the father she adores, a talented singer, and her sparkling grandmother, owner of a popular restaurant. Both have been forced into the Witness Protection Program because two mobsters, the Badgett brothers, have put a price on their heads to prevent their testifying against them in an arson case. As Sterling soon realizes, it is Marissa he has been sent to help. Sterling, who is able to move back and forth in time and place, masterminds a plan to eliminate the threat from the Badgett brothers and reunite Marissa with her loved ones. Filled with suspense and humour, HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING is a delightful and warmhearted tale of perseverance, redemption, and love.
I Heard That Song Before
Mary Higgins Clark
Marrying the son of her father's wealthy employer, twenty-eight-year-old gardener's daughter Kay Lansing becomes increasingly disturbed by the suspicion surrounding her husband, Peter, in regard to the mysterious deaths of his first wife and a high-school senior. 1,000,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, Mystery Guild, & BOMC Main.
I'll Be Seeing You
Mary Higgins Clark
Covering the story of a stabbing victim, television news reporter Meghan Collins stares down at the sheet-wrapped body of a beautiful young woman in a New York City hospital. What she sees in the dead girl’s face draws her into a terrifying web of treachery, where nothing is as it seems and the truth may be too devastating to pursue....
In a tragic bridge accident, Meghan’s father has disappeared—but no trace has been found of his body or his car. Meghan’s mother, neither widow nor wife, is unable to convert joint assets she needs to retain ownership of the family’s Connecticut inn. Before his disappearance, Edwin Collins had taken all the cash out of his substantial insurance policies. Now, in absentia, he has become the suspect in a brutal murder.
Trying to identify the dead girl, find her murderer, and clear her own father’s name, Meghan finds that her search is entwined with a story she’s doing on the Manning Clinic, an in-vitro fertilization center where women seek the children nature has denied them. On a twisting trail of deadly passions and deceit, Meghan is venturing ever closer to the truth...a nightmare journey that may cost her her very life.
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0671888587 here.
I'll Walk Alone
Mary Higgins Clark
The Queen Of Suspense Is Back!
Mary Higgins Clark’s new novel—the thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as America’s most beloved author of suspense fiction— is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft.
Who has not read about—or experienced—with a sinking feeling the fear that someone else out there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account, even stealing your identity.
In I'll Walk Alone, Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Park—a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair.
Now, on what would be Matthew’s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebody—but who? Zan asks herself desperately, and why?—has stolen her identity.
Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself— and those she loves most—in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction.
Even Zan’s supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective, and Father Aiden O’Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity, until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary Higgins Clark’s trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation.
Deeply satisfying, I'll Walk Alone is Mary Higgins Clark at the top of her form.
It Had to Be You (Under Suspicion, #8)
Mary Higgins Clark
In the latest thrilling entry in the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons.
The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way—handsome, intelligent, popular—until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together?
Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married now with children of their own, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate their parents’ murder. But as the Under Suspicion crew gets closer to the truth, the danger that was assumed to be left in the past finds its way into the present.
Featuring chilling suspense, a cast of characters whom loyal readers have come to love, and a final jaw-dropping twist, It Had to Be You is not to be missed.
I've Got My Eyes on You
Mary Higgins Clark
After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool.
The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn’t invite him to the party.
Or is there someone else who has not yet been seen on the radar?
Kerry’s older sister Aline, a twenty-eight-year-old guidance counselor, is determined to assist the Prosecutor's Office in learning the truth. She does not realize that now she is putting her own life in danger...
I've Got You Under My Skin (Under Suspicion, #1)
Mary Higgins Clark
When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams. Laurie is haunted by more: the killer's threat to her son as he fled the scene: Tell your mother she's next, then it's your turn . .Now Laurie is dealing with murder again, this time as the producer of a true-crime, cold-case television show. The series will launch with the twenty-year-old unsolved murder of Betsy Powell. Betsy, a socialite, was found suffocated in her bed after a gala celebrating the graduation of her daughter and three friends. The sensational murder was news nationwide. Reopening the case in its lavish setting and with the cooperation of the surviving guests that night, Laurie is sure to have a hit on her hands. But when the estranged friends begin filming, it becomes clear each is hiding secrets . . . small and large.And a pair of blue eyes is watching events unfold, too . . .
Just Take My Heart
Mary Higgins Clark
IN WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING SUSPENSE WRITER MARY HIGGINS CLARK’S SPELLBINDING NEW THRILLER, A BROADWAY STAR’S MURDER IGNITES A SHOCKING SERIES OF DEADLY EVENTS. . . . After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when a career criminal suddenly claims Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill her. The case is a plum assignment for attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace. She spends long hours preparing for the trial, and unaware of a seemingly well-meaning neighbor’s violent past, gives him a key to her home to care for her dog. The high-profile trial makes headlines, threatening to reveal personal matters about Emily, such as the fact that she had a heart transplant— especially when she experiences eerie sentiments that defy all reason and continue even after the jury decides Gregg Aldrich’s fate. But little does she know, now her own life is at risk. . . .
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry
Mary Higgins Clark
An electrifying new thriller from “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark!
When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a “CRyan” describing her “terrible experience” while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment “and I’m not the only one,” Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a Jet Ski accident while on holiday.
Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a tricky spot. Several female employees have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct. Carter approaches the CEO, offering to persuade the victims to accept settlements in exchange for their silence. It’s a risky endeavor, but it could well make him rich.
As more allegations emerge and the company’s IPO draws near, Carter’s attempts to keep the story from making headlines are matched only by Gina Kane’s determination to uncover the truth. Was Ryan’s death truly an accident? And when another accuser turns up dead, Gina realizes someone—or some people—will go to depraved lengths to keep the story from seeing the light.
La Clinique du docteur H.
Mary Higgins Clark
Katie est transportée d'urgence à l'hôpital après avoir été victime d'un accident de voiture.
Durant la nuit qu'elle passe à l'hôpital, elle est réveillée par le froid, elle se lève pour tenter de fermer sa fenêtre qui donne sur le parking et soudain voit apparaître le Docteur Highley déposer dans le coffre d'une voiture le corps d'une femme qu'elle connaît bien.
Le lendemain en se réveillant, elle ne sait plus si c'était un cauchemar ou la réalité.
La Maison Du Clair de Lune (Ldp Thrillers) (French Edition) by Clark, Mary Higgins (2004-01-01)
Mary Higgins Clark
Newport, Rhode a world of old money, old names, and sinister secrets. Maggie Holloway, a fashion photographer, goes to visit a woman who had once been her stepmother, but when she arrives, the woman is dead, the victim of a violent robbery. Maggie is stunned when she learns that she's the beneficiary of the will - and even more stunned when she recognizes a pattern of murder in Newport society that will lead the killer straight to her.
La Maison du guet
Mary Higgins Clark
Voulant échapper au terrible secret de son passé, Nancy a changé de nom, d'apparence et de couleur de cheveux, avant de quitter la côte Ouest et de venir s'installer à Cape Cod où elle a épousé Ray Eldredge dans l'espoir de pouvoir enfin revivre normalement. Sept années de bonheur se sont écoulées dans sa nouvelle maison avec son mari et deux beaux enfants, Michael et Missy. Puis, un matin, paraît dans le journal régional un article sur un procès pour meurtre qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre en Californie. L'article est illustré par la photo d'une jeune femme ressemblant étrangement à Nancy. Le jour même, Michael et Missy disparaissent mystérieusement. Le passé et le présent deviennent alors inexorablement liés. Nancy a-t-elle perdu la tête à la lecture de l'article qui la replonge brutalement dans un passé qu'elle a désespérément tenté de fuir ? C'est ce que redoute la police.
La Mariée était en blanc
Mary Higgins Clark
L'étrange disparition d'Amanda Pierce, le jour de ses noces, est un sujet tout indiqué pour l'équipe de Suspicion, l'émission de télé-réalité spécialisée dans la reconstitution de cold cases. La productrice Laurie Moran, décide de réunir une nouvelle fois les invités dans le somptueux hôtel de Palm Beach en Floride où devait se dérouler le mariage de rêve. Familles, amis, futur époux, témoins, demoiselles d'honneur... tous ont accepté de venir, et très vite, des rumeurs commencent à circuler. Et si la belle Amanda n'était pas celle que l'on croyait ?
La reina del baile (Bajo sospecha, #5)
Mary Higgins Clark
“Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; Every Breath You Take follows television producer’s Laurie Moran investigation of the unsolved Met Gala murder—in which a wealthy widow was pushed to her death from the famous museum’s rooftop.
Laurie Moran’s professional life is a success—her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can’t stand—Ryan Nichols—and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family.
Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and one of the museum’s most generous donors, was found in the snow, after being thrown from the museum’s roof on the night of its most celebrated fundraiser, the Met Gala. The leading suspect then and now is her much younger boyfriend and personal trainer, Ivan Gray.
Ivan runs a trendy, successful boutique gym called Punch—a business funded in no small part by the late Virginia—which happens to be the gym Ryan frequents. Laurie’s skepticism about the case is upended by a tip from her father’s NYPD connection, and soon Laurie realizes there are a bevy of suspects—including Virginia’s trusted inner circle.
As the Under Suspicion crew pries into the lives of a super wealthy real estate family with secrets to hide, danger mounts for several witnesses—and for Laurie.
Le bleu de tes yeux
Mary Higgins Clark
Il y a cinq ans, Timmy a été témoin du meurtre de son père. Avant de s’enfuir, l’assassin, aux yeux très bleus – ce dont le garçon se souvient précisément –, lui a lancé : « Dis à ta mère qu’elle est la prochaine. » Depuis, l’enfant et sa mère, Laurie, vivent sous cette menace. La jeune femme, célèbre productrice télé, démarre une série choc sur les affaires non résolues. Le premier épisode revient sur l’affaire du « Gala des lauréates » : il y a vingt ans, Betsy Powell et son mari organisaient une grande soirée en l’honneur du diplôme de leur fille. La nuit même, Betsy mourait étouffée. Alors qu’on s’apprête à reconstituer la scène du crime dans la splendide demeure des Powell, quelqu’un épie Laurie dans l’ombre, quelqu’un qui a les yeux d’un bleu éclatant… Commence alors un huis clos haletant.
Les Années perdues
Mary Higgins Clark
Mariah retrouve sa mère, une arme à la main, près du cadavre de son père. La culpabilité de Kathleen Lyons, atteinte de la maladie d’Alzheimer, ne fait aucun doute pour la police. Mariah, quant à elle, n’y croit pas une seconde. Spécialiste de la Bible, Jonathan Lyons venait de faire une découverte insolite : une lettre de Jésus adressée à Joseph d’Arimathie, élucidant le mystère des fameuses « années perdues », volée dans la bibliothèque du Vatican au XVe siècle. Une nouvelle extraordinaire pour la chrétienté. Aurait-on assassiné Jonathan Lyons pour récupérer le précieux parchemin ? Déterminée à découvrir la vérité, Mariah va mener l’enquête au péril de sa vie… Un suspense éblouissant avec lequel Mary Higgins Clark joue de tous les codes du thriller initiatique avec un talent inégalable.
Les Enfants du guet
Mary Higgins Clark
Le plus bel héritage de la reine du suspense : la suite de son roman culte, La Maison du guet . Melissa, avocate et podcasteuse à succès, vient d'épouser l'homme qu'elle aime. Il est veuf et père d'une petite Riley. Quelques mois plus tard, alors que Melissa et son frère Mike aident leur mère à s'installer dans les Hamptons, Riley disparaît. Tous deux se lancent à corps perdu dans une course contre la montre pour retrouver la fillette et la sauver du traumatisme qu'ils n'ont jamais surmonté : leur enlèvement, quarante ans plus tôt... Des secrets enfouis, une fillette en péril, la menace d'un prédateur qui plane... On retrouve Melissa et Mike, les enfants de Nancy, confrontés à leur passé, dans un roman obsédant qui fait magnifiquement écho à La Maison du guet , titre phare de la romancière qui a révolutionné le thriller.
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Mary Higgins Clark
Kerry McGrath is a dedicated prosecutor and a devoted mother. When her daughter's face is cut in a car accident, Kerry is relieved that the plastic surgeon who treats her is the eminent Dr. Charles Smith. Then Kerry notices something bizarre. Two of Smith's patients bear an uncanny resemblance to Suzanne Reardon, a young woman killed eleven years earlier. Why would Dr. Smith create look-alikes of a murder victim? A chilling tale of obsession by America's reigning queen of suspense.
L'Ombre de ton sourire de Higgins Clark, Mary (2012) Poche
Mary Higgins Clark
In The Shadow of Your Smile, worldwide bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark weaves a spellbinding thriller revolving around a long-held family secret that threatens to emerge and take the life of an unsuspecting heiress.At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave.Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun, now being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church—the final step before sainthood. In her lifetime, Sister Catherine had founded seven hospitals for disabled children. Now the cure of a four-year-old boy dying of brain cancer is being attributed to her. After his case was pronounced medically hopeless, the boy’s desperate mother had organized a prayer crusade to Sister Catherine, leading to his miraculous recovery.The letters Olivia holds are the evidence that Catherine gave birth at age seventeen to a child, a son, and gave him up for adoption. Olivia knows the identity of the young man who fathered Catherine’s Alex Gannon, who went on to become a world-famous doctor, scientist, and inventor holding medical patents.Now, two generations later, thirty-one-year-old pediatrician Dr. Monica Farrell, Catherine’s granddaughter, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is, Olivia would have to betray Catherine’s wishes and reveal the story behind Monica’s ancestry.The Gannon fortune is being squandered by Alex’s nephews Greg and Peter Gannon, and other board members of the Gannon Foundation, who camouflage their profligate lifestyles with philanthropy.Now their carefully constructed image is cracking. Greg, a prominent financier, is under criminal investigation, and Peter, a Broadway producer, is a suspect in the murder of a young woman who has been extorting money from him.The only people aware of Olivia’s impending choice are those exploiting the Gannon inheritance. To silence Olivia and prevent Monica from learning the secret, some of them will stop at nothing—even murder.Clark’s riveting new novel explores the juxtaposition of medical science and religious faith, and the search for identity by the daughter of a man adopted at birth.
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Mary Higgins Clark
A serial killer leaves one dancing shoe on a foot of the victims who answer his personal ads. When Erin dies, her best friend places ads to entice the villain already targeting her next. New York police detective Vince D'Ambrosio takes a personal interest. New boyfriend Dr Michael Nash is supportive. A stalker may surprise everyone.
Manhattan Mayhem
Mary Higgins Clark
Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new stories of mystery, murder, and suspense presented by Mary Higgins Clark—with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more. From the streets of Harlem to the winding paths of Central Park to the high-rise towers of Wall Street, Manhattan is brimming with motivation, opportunity, means—and unsolved mysteries. In this new collection of stories, brought together by Mystery Writers of America and edited by bestselling suspense author Mary Higgins Clark, neighborhoods in the borough come to life—or death—with their own cases to be cracked. In Lee Child's exclusive Jack Reacher story, “The Picture of the Lonely Diner,” the legendary drifter interrupts a curious stand-off in the shadow of the Flatiron Building. In Jeffery Deaver’s “The Baker of Bleecker Street,” an Italian immigrant becomes ensnared in WWII espionage. And in “The Five-Dollar Dress,” Mary Higgins Clark unearths the contents of a mysterious hope chest found in an apartment on Union Square. With additional stories from T. Jefferson Parker, S. J. Rozan, Nancy Pickard, Ben H. Winters, Brendan DuBois, Persia Walker, Jon L. Breen, N. J. Ayres, Angela Zeman, Thomas H. Cook, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Justin Scott, and Julie Hyzy, Manhattan Mayhem is teeming with red herrings, likely suspects, and thoroughly satisfying mysteries.
Mein ist die Stunde der Nacht
Mary Higgins Clark
Eigentlich hätte sich Jean Sheridan das Wiedersehen mit ihren ehemaligen Kommilitonen und Kommilitoninnen anders vorgestellt. Ein paar Familienfotos hatte sie erwartet, ein paar Tänze mit in die Jahre gekommenen Bekannten, und einige Gespräche über erfolgreiche Karrieren -- Karrieren so wie ihre. Denn inzwischen ist Sheridan eine angesehene Historikerin, die sich bei dem Ehemaligentreffen in ihrer Heimatstadt zwanzig Jahre nach Schulabschluss nicht zu verstecken braucht. Das sehen auch die anderen so. Schließlich soll sie als eine von sechs Auserwählten ja auch eine Ehrung erhalten.
Dann aber würde sie sich lieber doch verstecken, und das hat vor allem damit zu tun, dass das Wiedersehen anders als erwartet verläuft. Denn unter der Festgemeinschaft ist auch Detective Sam Deegan, der nicht von einem lang zurückliegenden Mordfall lassen kann und hier in der Gruppe die Lösung sucht. Und waren es wirklich Unglücksfälle, die vier von Sheridans Jugendfreundinnen dahingerafft haben? Langsam beginnt ein Verdacht in der Historikerin zu keimen. Und tatsächlich hat es der Serienkiller, der sich „die Eule“ nennt, längst auf ein weiteres Opfer aus der Gruppe abgesehen. Vielleicht auf Sheridan selbst?...
Meurtre à Cape Cod
Mary Higgins Clark
Voici un recueil qui nous offre un riche aperçu de tout le talent de nouvelliste de Mary Higgins Clark, du Passager clandestin, sa toute première nouvelle publiée en 1956, en passant par Meurtre à Cape Cod, où l'on retrouve ses célèbres héros Willy et Alvirah, jusqu'à La mort porte un masque de beauté, texte inédit et point d'orgue l’ouvrage. L’écrivaine en avait commencé puis abandonné l’écriture en 1974 au profit de La Maison du guet, thriller qui avait alors lancé sa carrière. Il lui aura fallu près de quarante ans pour achever cette plongée spectaculaire dans le monde de la haute couture, aussi éblouissant que redoutable, dans le New York des années 1970. Trahisons, cupidité, rivalités familiales et amoureuses… autant de thèmes chers à la reine incontestée du suspense et qui font la trame de ces récits ciselés et haletants, à la hauteur de ses plus grands romans. Ce recueil ne décevra pas les admirateurs de Mary Higgins Clark. Version Femina. Tous les titres de Mary Higgins Clark sont au Livre de Poche. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Anne Damour.
Meurtres à Manhattan
Mary Higgins Clark
This suspense-filled collection includes Mary Higgins Clark's "Lucky Day," Whitley Strieber's "Vaudeville," Dorothy Salisbury Davis' "Till Death Do Us Part," and Thomas Chastain's "Directed Verdict." 4 cassettes.
Moonlight Becomes You
Mary Higgins Clark
Newport, Rhode Island: a world of old money, old names, and sinister secrets. Maggie Holloway, a fashion photographer, goes to visit a woman who had once been her stepmother, but when she arrives, the woman is dead, the victim of a violent robbery. Maggie is stunned when she learns that she's the beneficiary of the will - and even more stunned when she recognizes a pattern of murder in Newport society that will lead the killer straight to her.
Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington
Mary Higgins Clark
In Mount Vernon Love Story -- famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel -- the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining. Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.
My Gal Sunday
Mary Higgins Clark
Imagine Nick and Nora Charles with a taste for politics and none for gin, and you'd be pretty close to Mary Higgins Clark's Henry Parker Britland IV and his attractive young wife, Sandra O'Brien Britland, known as Sunday. Henry, possessor of an enormous inherited fortune and known as one of America's sexiest men, has just finished his second term as president of the United States and is happily retired at 44, puttering around his New Jersey country estate. Sunday, who bootstrapped her way up from a modest working-class background, is a junior congresswoman with a reputation for smarts. The two met, romantically enough, on the eve of Henry's leaving office, fell madly in love, and were married six weeks later. In this collection of four pleasantly readable stories, the sleuthing duo catch the murderer of a statesman's flashy amour, endure Sunday's kidnapping and mastermind her rescue, solve the 34-year-old mystery of the disappearance of a foreign prime minister from the Britland family yacht, and reunite a ransomed boy with his parents at Christmas. Of the four, "They All Ran After the President's Wife" may be the best plotted, and has a particularly amusing McGuffin in the character of a caviar-loving terrorist. While the suspense is on the mild side throughout, the romance is lighthearted but sincere, and the occasional flashes of wit are dryly appealing. It's a bonbon, to be enjoyed for its brief sweetness. --Barrie Trinkle
Nighttime Is My Time
Mary Higgins Clark
From the "Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark, comes a riveting tale of suspense, secrets, and revenge.
Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission of vengeance against women who once humiliated him...and Jean is his final intended victim.
Ni vue ni connue
Mary Higgins Clark
What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection programme and sent to live in Minneapolis, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date - until the strain of her deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her whereabouts. Armed with nothing more than her own courage and clues from the journal, Lacey heads back to New York determined to uncover who is behind the deaths of the two women...before she is the next casualty.
No Place Like Home
Mary Higgins Clark
In a riveting thriller from the #1 bestselling Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to the childhood home she wanted to leave behind forever -- and where her hidden past emerges with a new and deadly twist. Ten-year-old Liza Barton shoots her mother while trying to protect her from her violent husband -- Liza's stepfather. While the death is ruled accidental, the tabloids still compare Liza to the child murderess Lizzie Borden.
Liza's adoptive parents change her name to Celia and try to erase all traces of her past. Widowed after a brief marriage in which she had a son, Jack, she remarries a young lawyer. Celia is happy until, on her birthday, he presents her with a gift -- the house where she killed her mother. On moving in, they find the words LITTLE LIZZIE'S PLACE - BEWARE painted in red letters on the lawn. When the real estate agent who sold the house to her husband is murdered, she becomes a suspect. As she struggles to prove her innocence, Celia and her little son are being stalked by the killer.
Nunca seré tuya (Bajo sospecha #6)
Mary Higgins Clark
Hace cinco años, el famoso físico Martin Bell fue asesinado mientras regresaba a su casa de Greenwich Village. Sus padres siguen convencidos de que su esposa Kendra pergeñó la muerte y, decididos a hacerse con la custodia de sus nietos, contactan con Laurie Moran para que incluya su caso en el programa Bajo sospecha. Kendra, en cambio, que ha sido perseguida por los medios y a menudo acusada del crimen, ve una oportunidad para limpiar su nombre.
Cuando Laurie empieza a indagar en la historia, descubre que el doctor Bell no era ese perfecto marido y padre, sino que ocultaba muchos secretos. Y ¿qué relación guarda la red de mentiras de los Bell con el peligroso extraño que vigila a Moran desde lejos, aguardando el momento?
On the Street Where You Live
Mary Higgins Clark
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a young girl, disappeared. As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identified as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished several years ago. Within her hand is the finger bone of another woman, with a ring—a Shapley family heirloom—still on it. Determined to find the connection between the two murders, Emily becomes a threat to a seductive killer... who chooses her as the next victim.
Piece of My Heart (Under Suspicion, #7)
Mary Higgins Clark
In the latest thrilling collaboration from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran must solve the kidnapping of her fiancée’s nephew—just days before her wedding.
Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-summer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex’s seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny’s skim board washes up to shore, and everyone realizes that he could be anywhere, even under water.
A ticking clock, a sinister stalker, and fresh romance combine in this exhilarating follow up to the bestselling You Don’t Own Me—another riveting page-turner from the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and her dazzling partner-in-crime Alafair Burke.
Por siempre mía
Mary Higgins Clark
Una serie de mujeres desaparecidas en extrañas circunstancias tienen un elemento en común: todas han recibido, de un admirador misterioso, un anillo con las palabras "por siempre mía" grabadas en su interior. La psicóloga Susan Chandler entrevista en su programa de televisión al autor de un libro sobre mujeres desaparecidas y, a partir de entonces, una serie de cabos sueltos van perfilando una terrible sospecha: ¿acaso se trata de un asesino en serie? Sin embargo, lo que la doctora Susan ignora es que el psicópata se encuentra mucho más cerca de lo que ella cree, precisamente entre sus numerosos admiradores, y que no está dispuesto a permitir que nadie estropee sus macabros designios...
Pravi se da je ne vidiš
Mary Higgins Clark
Lacey Farell agentica je za prodaju nekretnina koja će se u jednom trenutku naći u krivo vrijeme na krivome mjestu. U apartmanu koji je prodavala ubojica koji se predstavljao kao kupac okrutno će ubiti nasljednicu stana, majku mlade glumice koja je stradala u prometnoj nesreći pod sumnjivim okolnostima. Iza zaključanih vrata ubojica će i kroz staklo ugledati lice nepoželjne svjedokinje i nakon toga imat će samo jedan plan – ubiti je što prije. Međutim, Lacey Farell postat će zaštićena svjedokinja, promijenit će grad, posao i ime – no hoće li to biti dovoljno da izbjegne ruku ubojice…
Pretend You Don't See Her
Mary Higgins Clark
What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection programme and sent to live in Minneapolis, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date - until the strain of her deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her whereabouts. Armed with nothing more than her own courage and clues from the journal, Lacey heads back to New York determined to uncover who is behind the deaths of the two women...before she is the next casualty.
Quand reviendras-tu ?
Mary Higgins Clark
Désespérée par l'enlèvement de son petit garçon dans Central Park deux ans plus tôt, Alexandra « Zan » Moreland, belle et talentueuse architecte d'intérieur, se voit avec effroi soupçonnée d'avoir elle-même kidnappé l'enfant. Traquée par la police et les médias, Zan n'arrive pas à comprendre qui a intérêt à la faire accuser. Malgré la peur, malgré les doutes, la jeune femme, persuadée que son fils est toujours vivant, se lance dans une enquête qui pourrait bien mettre en péril sa vie et celle de ses proches... Une femme aux abois, un enfant disparu... Mary Higgins Clark retrouve dans ce suspense le rythme haletant et l'ambiguïté de son plus grand suspense, La Nuit du renard.
Recherche jeune femme aimant danser
Mary Higgins Clark
« Peut-être l'occasion de trouver le prince charmant… » Erin et Darcy estimaient plutôt amusant de répondre aux petites annonces de la rubrique « Rencontres » pour aider une amie à préparer un reportage télévisé. Beau sujet de reportage, en effet : il y a toutes sortes de gens derrière l'anonymat des annonces…
Et la romancière de La Nuit du renard, Grand Prix de littérature policière 1980, experte en pathologie criminelle, nous entraîne, sur les pas de ses héroïnes, dans un suspense de cauchemar.
Remember Me
Mary Higgins Clark
A killer turns a young family's dream holiday into an unfathomable nightmare.... Menley Nichols and her husband, Adam, a criminal attorney, rent a house on Cape Cod, in the hope of restoring their faltering marriage. The birth of their daughter, Hannah, has revitalized their relationship, but Menley has never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of her two-year-old son. The serenity of the Cape promises a new start.
In Remember House, an eighteenth-century landmark with a sinister past, strange incidents force Menley to relive the accident that killed her son, and she begins to fear for Hannah's safety. Then Adam takes on a client suspected of murder when his wealthy young bride of only three months drowns in a storm -- and the family is drawn into a rising tide of terror. A confrontation on a dark, rain-swept beach leads to a harrowing climax that only Mary Higgins Clark could have created.
Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
Mary Higgins Clark
In The Bestselling Tradition Of The Christmas Thief . . . A Holiday Mystery At Sea
America's Queen of Suspense -- Mary Higgins Clark -- joins forces with her daughter Carol -- bestselling author of the Regan Reilly mysteries -- in this fast-paced novel set on a special holiday cruise that sets sail from Miami the day after Christmas.
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth; recently "hitched" private detective Regan Reilly; and their husbands Willy and Jack, are guests on the Royal Mermaid's maiden voyage, the Santa Cruise. The cruise is Commodore Randolph Weed's gift to a select group of people who in the last year made the world a better place. What he doesn't know is that his ne'er-do-well nephew, Eric, has smuggled two escaping criminals on board. As the Royal Mermaid sails through troubled waters, Alvirah and Regan uncover clues that lead them to the dangerous men who were not on the original guest list!
Filled with suspense and humor, Santa Cruise is a holiday mystery you won't want to miss. Join the Clarks' as they bring this unpredictable voyage to a hair-raising and heartwarming conclusion and ring in the New Year.
Silent Night
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark, the "Queen of Suspense," has crafted a very special holiday story about a child's courage in the face of danger, and the power of love. Charged with menace and thrilling suspense, it is the #1 New York Times bestselling author's gift to readers for all seasons.When Catherine Dornan's husband, Tom, is diagnosed with leukemia, she and their two young sons travel with him to New York during the holiday season for a lifesaving operation. On Christmas Eve, hoping to lift the boys' spirits, Catherine takes them to see Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree; while there, seven-year-old Brian notices a woman taking his mother's wallet. A St. Christopher medal tucked inside the wallet saved his grandfather's life in World War II, and Brian believes with all his heart that it will protect his father now. Impulsively, Brian follows the thief into the subway, and the most dangerous adventure of his young life begins...
Silent Night/All Through the Night: Two Christmas Novels
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark, for several years, has given her readers a very special holiday gift -- short novels celebrating the Christmas season with tales of suspense and cheer. Now two of her most beloved stories are combined in one special volume -- a welcome gift for readers in all seasons. In Silent Night, Brian, a seven-year-old boy, is in New York City at Christmas with his mother and ten-year-old brother to visit his father, critically ill in the hospital. They plan to give him a St. Christopher medal, in the belief that it will make him well. When Brian sees a woman steal his mother's wallet, with the medal in it, he embarks on a dangerous journey that changes the life of his mother and that of the thief. With All Through the Night, two of Mary Higgins Clark's most endearing characters -- Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy -- are caught up in a Christmas mystery that begins when a young mother leaves her newborn child on the doorstep of a church rectory on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and continues with the theft of a precious chalice from the church. It is a captivating tale of false identities and old wrongs made right, as well as a mystery that calls for all of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense. Even one story by America's Queen of Suspense is cause for cheer, but this single-volume edition of Silent Night and All Through the Night is a treat for all of Mary Higgins Clark's devoted fans at any time of the
Stille Nacht.
Mary Higgins Clark
Der Vater des siebenjährigen Brian ist schwer krank. Brian hat die Hoffnung, daß das Christophorus-Medaillon seiner Großmutter dem kranken Vater das Leben retten kann. Als am Weihnachtsabend dieses Medaillon im Gedränge von Manhattans Straßen von einer Frau gestohlen wird, nimmt Brian die Verfolgung auf. Er gerät dabei in große Gefahr: Der Junge wird von einem Polizistenmörder als Geisel genommen. Die Heilige Nacht wird für ihn zum Alptraum...
Stillwatch
Mary Higgins Clark
Top investigative journalist Pat Traymore is in Washington, finding out all she can about the woman tipped to become the first female Vice-President. But she is also trying to exorcise painful childhood memories by visiting her old family home.
Testigo en la sombra
Mary Higgins Clark
¿Qué ocurre cuando una mujer joven queda atrapada accidentalmente en la peligrosa investigación de un asesinato? ¿Qué ocurre si la ponen bajo protección y la obligan a cambiar de identidad y a trasladarse a otra ciudad? ¿Qué ocurre si en su nueva vida conoce al hombre perfecto, pero no puede correr el riesgo de enamorarse porque tiene prohibido revelarle a nadie -ni siquiera a él, sobre todo a él- su verdadera identidad?...
Testigo en la sombra narra la espeluznante historia de Lacey Farrell, una vendedora neoyorquina que, para su desgracia, presencia involuntariamente un crimen brutal... y ve la cara del asesino. Ahora él tiene una idea fija: encontrar a Lacey y matarla, y no está dispuesto a detenerse ante nada.
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories
Mary Higgins Clark
In the short novel The Anastasia Syndrome, prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London and preparing for her marriage to Sir Stephen Hallett, expected to become England's next Prime Minister. Orphaned during World War II, Judith wants to trace her origins. In this quest, she goes to a renowned psychiatrist and becomes the victim of his experiments in regression. When a woman in a dark green cape sets off bombs in London, Sir Stephen and Judith are faced with an intangible, mysterious force threatening their very existence.Obsessive love is the subject of Terror Stalks the Class Reunion; psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder in Double Vision; Lucky Day, compared to O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, begins premonition of imminent danger; in The Lost Angel, mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.
The Christmas Collection: Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark
An omnibus edition of the three cracking Christmas novellas from bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark.
The Christmas Thief
Deck the Halls
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
The Christmas Thief
Mary Higgins Clark
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. In Deck the Halls, they rescued Regan's kidnapped father.
This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, had hidden there over twelve years ago. An excited Packy breaks his parole and heads to Stowe, Vermont, to reclaim his loot. Once there, he is horrified to discover that his special tree will be heading to New York City the next morning. With a bumbling crew consisting of Jo-Jo, Benny, and an unsuccessful poet, Milo, he knows he has to act fast. What Packy does not know is that Alvirah and Regan are on a weekend trip to stowe with Alvirah's husband, Willy; Regan's fiance, Jack; Regan's parents, Luke and Nora; and Alvirah's friend Opal, a lottery winner who lost all her winnings in Packy's scam. On Monday morning when they're suppose to head home, they learn that the tree is missing, Packy Noonan may be in the vicinity, and Opal has disappeared.
The Cinderella Murder (Under Suspicion, #2)
Mary Higgins Clark
Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program—a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected—is off to a fantastic start when it helps solve an infamous murder in the very first episode.
Now Laurie has the ideal case to feature in the next episode ofUnder Suspicion: the Cinderella Murder. When Susan Dempsey, a beautiful and multi-talented UCLA student, was found dead, her murder raised numerous questions. Why was her car parked miles from her body? Had she ever shown up for the acting audition she was due to attend at the home of an up-and-coming director? Why does Susan’s boyfriend want to avoid questions about their relationship? Was her disappearance connected to a controversial church that was active on campus? Was she close to her computer science professor because of her technological brilliance, or something more? And why was Susan missing one of her shoes when her body was discovered?
With the help of lawyer and Under Suspicion host Alex Buckley, Laurie knows the case will attract great ratings, especially when the former suspects include Hollywood’s elite and tech billionaires. The suspense and drama are perfect for the silver screen—but is Cinderella’s murderer ready for a close-up?
The Cradle Will Fall
Mary Higgins Clark
This hospital-based horror tale features abduction and a research project that violates every principle of modern medicine. This is a reissue of a novel by a popular author often described as the 'Queen of Suspense'.
The Lost Years
Mary Higgins Clark
In her long career as America’s most beloved suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark’s The Lost Years is her most astonishing and dramatic novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history—“the holiest of the holy”—and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.
In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, America’s Queen of Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history—“the holiest of the holy”—and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.
Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments—a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever. Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in.
Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, is found hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. Even in her dementia, Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a long-term affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend? Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who has possession of the priceless parchment that has now gone missing?
It is up to their daughter, twenty-eight-year-old Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her father’s death. Mary Higgins Clark’s The Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.
The Lottery Winner
Mary Higgins Clark
Alvirah Meehan, the former cleaning lady from Flushing, New York, who struck it rich in the lottery, made her first appearance in Mary Higgins Clark's Weep No More, My Lady. After she narrowly survived a stalking killer in that best-selling novel, grateful fans clamored for her return. Mary Higgins Clark obliged with several splendid short stories starring the ever-resourceful Alvirah and her occasionally befuddled but always dependable mate, Willy. Here are Alvirah and Willy, ensconced in their spacious Central Park South condo, surrounded by the rich and famous, some of whom just can't go on living (The Body in the Closet). But then Alvirah has become something of a celebrity herself and even appears on the Donahue show, thereby giving unfortunate ideas to a bunch of kidnappers who demand a hefty ransom for her hapless hubby (Plumbing for Willy). When they're not solving dastardly crimes or extricating themselves from danger in Manhattan, Alvirah and Willy like to escape to Cape Cod. Even there, however, they find plenty to keep Alvirah's steel-trap mind occupied (Death on the Cape), not to mention solving the problems of a fellow lottery winner in distress (A Clean Sweep), or returning to the Cypress Point Spa to solve a brutal slaying among the rich and beautiful (The Lottery Winner), or - as a surprise - the unexpected bonus of a Willy and Alvirah Christmas tale of suspense (Bye, Baby Bunting).
The Melody Lingers On
Mary Higgins Clark
A headline-making finance scandal and a breathtaking tale of deception collide in #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark’s finest thriller yet.
As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon is accustomed to visiting opulent homes. So her latest job at a modest New Jersey townhouse is unusual. Then she learns the home belongs to the wife of disgraced finance magnate Parker Bennett, who vanished two years earlier, along with the five billion dollar hedge fund he managed.
The debate over whether Bennett was suicidal or staged his disappearance still continues. Both his clients and the federal government want to trace the money and find him. But Lane is surprisingly moved by Mrs. Bennett’s steadfast faith in her husband’s innocence. Gradually, Lane is also drawn to the Bennetts’ son, Mark, who is equally determined to prove his father is not guilty. What she doesn’t realize is the closer she gets to the notorious family, the more her life—and that of her five-year-old daughter—is in jeopardy.
The Second Time Around
Mary Higgins Clark
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding with Nicholas Spencer's disappearance comes news that the FDA is denying approval. Then follows the shocking revelation that Spencer had looted Gen-stone of huge sums of money -- including the lifetime savings of people who had risked every penny they had. Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo, the thirty-two-year-old columnist for the Wall Street Weekly, is assigned to cover the story. Carley is the stepsister of Spencer's wife, Lynn, an aggressive PR woman and socialite, whom she dislikes and distrusts. The day after news of her husband's disappearance rocks the financial and medical world, Lynn attends a meeting of the stockholders of Gen-stone, flaunting expensive clothing and jewelry. Accused of having participated in the scam, she appears indifferent to the anger and despair of the people attending, among them a man whose child has cancer and who is now about to lose his home. That night, she narrowly escapes death when her mansion in Bedford, New York, is set on fire. She turns to Carley, begging her to use her investigative skills to prove that she was not her husband's accomplice. As Carley proceeds with her investigation, she is confronted by seemingly impenetrable questions: Is Nicholas Spencer dead or in hiding? Was he guilty or set up? Why the sudden reversal in medical opinion of the vaccine from recognition to condemnation? And as the facts begin to unfold, she becomes the target of a dangerous group involved in a sinister and fraudulent scheme. The Second Time Around is Mary Higgins Clark at her best, telling a story that intertwines fiction with the stuff of real-life headlines in a novel of breathtaking suspense and surprises.
The Shadow of Your Smile
Mary Higgins Clark
In The Shadow of Your Smile, worldwide bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark weaves a spellbinding thriller revolving around a long-held family secret that threatens to emerge and take the life of an unsuspecting heiress.
At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave.
Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun, now being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church—the final step before sainthood. In her lifetime, Sister Catherine had founded seven hospitals for disabled children. Now the cure of a four-year-old boy dying of brain cancer is being attributed to her. After his case was pronounced medically hopeless, the boy’s desperate mother had organized a prayer crusade to Sister Catherine, leading to his miraculous recovery.
The letters Olivia holds are the evidence that Catherine gave birth at age seventeen to a child, a son, and gave him up for adoption. Olivia knows the identity of the young man who fathered Catherine’s child: Alex Gannon, who went on to become a world-famous doctor, scientist, and inventor holding medical patents.
Now, two generations later, thirty-one-year-old pediatrician Dr. Monica Farrell, Catherine’s granddaughter, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is, Olivia would have to betray Catherine’s wishes and reveal the story behind Monica’s ancestry.
The Gannon fortune is being squandered by Alex’s nephews Greg and Peter Gannon, and other board members of the Gannon Foundation, who camouflage their profligate lifestyles with philanthropy.
Now their carefully constructed image is cracking. Greg, a prominent financier, is under criminal investigation, and Peter, a Broadway producer, is a suspect in the murder of a young woman who has been extorting money from him.
The only people aware of Olivia’s impending choice are those exploiting the Gannon inheritance. To silence Olivia and prevent Monica from learning the secret, some of them will stop at nothing—even murder.
Clark’s riveting new novel explores the juxtaposition of medical science and religious faith, and the search for identity by the daughter of a man adopted at birth.
The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion, #4)
Mary Higgins Clark
The third thrilling novel in the Under Suspicion series by #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke follows television producer Laurie Moran as she tries to help a woman she believes was wrongfully convicted of killing her fiancé.
Fifteen years after being convicted of murdering her fiancé—the famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III—Casey Carter is determined to clear her name. Though she has served her time, she finds that she is still living under suspicion. Going on the true crime show Under Suspicion seems to be her only hope to prove her innocence.
The show’s producer, Laurie Moran, also believes in her innocence and wants to help Casey. But with Alex Buckley taking a break from the show—cooling his potential romance with Laurie— Under Suspicion introduces a new on-air host in Ryan Nichols, a hot shot legal whiz with a Harvard Law degree, a Supreme Court clerkship, experience as a federal prosecutor. Ryan has no problems with steering the show, and even tries to stop Laurie from taking on Casey’s case because he’s so certain she’s guilty.
An egomaniacal new boss, a relentless gossip columnist, and Casey’s longstanding bad Laurie must face this and more to do what she believes is right, to once and for all prove Casey’s innocence—that is, if she’s innocent.
Two Little Girls in Blue
Mary Higgins Clark
In this riveting thriller from Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead.When Margaret and Steve Frawley come home to Connecticut from a black-tie dinner in New York, their three-year-old twins, Kathy and Kelly, are gone. The police found the babysitter unconscious, and a ransom note from the Pied Piper demands eight million dollars. Steve's global investment firm puts up the money, but when they go to retrieve the twins, only Kelly is in the car. The dead driver's suicide note says he inadvertently killed Kathy.At the memorial, Kelly tugs Margaret's arm and says: Mommy, Kathy is very scared of that lady. She wants to come home right now. At first, only Margaret believes that the twins are communicating and that Kathy is still alive. But as Kelly's warnings become increasingly specific and alarming, FBI agents set out on a desperate search.
Un grito en la noche
Mary Higgins Clark
Jenny, divorciada, madre de dos hijas y empleada en una galería de arte, conoce a Erich Krueger, pintor que acaba de revelarse como artista de excepción y hombre dotado de considerable encanto personal. Es lo que se dice un flechazo: poco tiempo después, Jenny y Erich se encuentran casados e instalados en la fastuosa mansión que el hombre posee en Minnesota.
Pero lo que parecía un futuro pleno de felicidad pronto empieza a degradarse; poca cosa, al principio: rarezas de Erich, relacionadas, sobre todo, con el abrumador recuerdo de su madre, fallecida accidentalmente cuando él era niño. Poco a poco, sin embargo, de forma callada y subrepticia, la paz y la muerte se van conjugando y empieza a formarse un hálito demoníaco. De pronto, inesperadamente, el horror se desencadena.
Un horror que no tardará en poner en peligro no sólo el matrimonio de Jenny, sino incluso su vida y la de sus dos hijas. Un horror que parece tener su origen en algo espantoso que ocurrió tiempo atrás en aquella señorial mansión.
Maestra en el arte de crear tensión, prender al lector y dejarle sin aliento, Mary Higgins Clark ratifica con esta novela lo que había manifestado ya en su relato anterior, La Cuna caerá: que es una de las mejores escritoras actuales del género de suspense.
Vestida de blanco (Under Suspicion, #3)
Mary Higgins Clark
Vestida de blanco es la segunda novela sobre el programa de televisión de Laurie Moran. El reality que trata de desvelar los misterios sobre casos sin resolver se centrará esta vez en la desaparición de una novia el día de su boda.
Hace cinco años, en el día en que iba a contraer matrimonio con su novio de la universidad, mientras familiares y amigos aguardaban expectantes en sus asientos, Amanda Pierce se esfumó sin dejar rastro.
En la actualidad, la productora Laurie Moran se da cuenta de que una novia desaparecida es el caso abierto perfecto para su programa televisivo sobre sucesos policiales sin resolver Bajo sospecha. Ella y su equipo salen de viaje hacia Florida para recrear aquella noche de hace cinco años con los asistentes originales. Con una hermana celosa, un padrino de bodas playboy, el antiguo prometido de Amanda casado ahora con una de las damas de honor y oscuros rumores alrededor de la novia, Laurie y el presentador de Bajo sospecha Alex Buckley pronto descubren que todo el mundo tiene su teoría sobre por qué Amanda se desvaneció ese día.
Una cosa es cierta: quienquiera que estuviera detrás de la desaparición, intentará que la verdad permanezca oculta «hasta que la muerte los separe»...
Warte, bis du schläfst
Mary Higgins Clark
Zehn Jahre ist es her, dass Carolyns Bruder von einem Tag auf den anderen spurlos verschwand. Um der quälenden Ungewissheit über sein Schicksal endlich ein Ende zu bereiten, beginnt Carolyn zu recherchieren. Sie stößt auf ein fürchterliches Verbrechen in der Vergangenheit – und auf einen Täter, dem sie bereits viel zu nahe gekommen ist.
Weep No More, My Lady
Mary Higgins Clark
The New York Times calls Mary Higgins Clark's masterpiece "the ideal book for the beach bag, picnic hamper, or carry-on luggage." "Well done and very scary," says Cosmopolitan. Prepare yourself for the Queen of Suspense's "crackling tale of menace and love that holds your attention to the last page" (Andrew M. Greeley).
Elizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the truth about how Leila died. Dashing millionaire Ted Winters stands accused of her murder, but Elizabeth has doubts.
Along the windswept cliffs of the Monterey coast, in luxurious bungalows, between gourmet meals and beachfront walks, uneasiness stalks Elizabeth while she begins opening doors to the past. As glimpses of the dark truth about Leila's life and death -- and about Elizabeth herself -- start to crash against her mind, an ominous wave from an unexpected source threatens to engulf her entirely.
We'll Meet Again
Mary Higgins Clark
with the dramatic story of two women, best friends, one of whom is charged - and convicted - of a murder the other may have committed.
America's "Queen of Suspense" returns with the dramatic story of two women, best friends, one of whom is charged - and convicted - of a murder the other may have committed. When Julia is released from prison at the age of 36, the first item on her agenda is to settle the score with her former friend.
Where Are the Children Now? (Where Are the Children, #2)
Mary Higgins Clark
The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the children of Nancy Harmon, facing peril once again as adults.
Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children? was her biggest, selling millions of copies and forever transforming the genre of suspense fiction. In that story, a young California mother named Nancy Harmon was convicted of murdering her two children. Though released on a technicality, she was abandoned by her husband and became such a pariah in the media that she was forced to move across the country to Cape Cod, change her identity and appearance, and start a new life. Years later her two children from a second marriage, Mike and Melissa, would go missing, and Nancy yet again became the prime suspect—but this time, Nancy was able to confront the secrets buried in her past and rescue her kids from a dangerous predator.
Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to the equally idyllic Hamptons, Melissa’s new stepdaughter goes missing. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle with—or worse.
Just like the original, Where Are the Children Now? keeps readers guessing and holding their breath until the very last page.
Where Are the Children? (Where Are the Children, #1)
Mary Higgins Clark
Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal -- until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again....
Where Are You Now?
Mary Higgins Clark
From America's Queen of Suspense comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy -- a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother's Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls.
Mack's sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother's Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: "Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me."
Mack's cryptic warning does nothing to deter his sister from taking up the search, despite the angry reaction of her mother, Olivia, and the polite disapproval of Elliott Wallace, Carolyn's honorary uncle, who is clearly in love with Olivia.
Carolyn's pursuit of the truth about Mack's disappearance swiftly plunges her into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What is the secret that Gus and Lil Kramer, the superintendents of the building in which Mack was living, have to hide? What do Mack's old roommates, the charismatic club owner Nick DeMarco and the cold and wealthy real estate tycoon Bruce Galbraith, know about Mack's disappearance? Is Nick connected to the disappearance of Leesey Andrews, who had last been seen in his trendy club? Can the police possibly believe that Mack is not only alive, but a serial killer, a shadowy predator of young women? Was Mack also guilty of the brutal murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
Carolyn's passionate search for the truth about her brother -- and for her brother himself -- leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal.
While My Pretty One Sleeps
Mary Higgins Clark
THE DEAD WOMAN WORE RED... Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody---so there were more than enough suspects in her murder. But for Neeve Kearny, owner of an expensive Madison Avenue boutique, the killing of one of her best customers had eerie echoes of another death that occurred many years earlier---the murder of her own mother. Suddenly, Neeve is plunged into the mystery of Ethel Lambston's murder, following a trail that leads from the glittering pleasure palaces of New York's rich and beautiful to the Mafia underworld. In the tradition of Mary Higgins Clark's staggering bestsellers, Neeve Kearny is a woman determined to find the truth, caught in a swirl of money and romance---and stalked by a killer who's closer than she could ever dream...
Yö kuuluu minulle
Mary Higgins Clark
You Belong To Me
Mary Higgins Clark
A killer who targets lonely women on cruise ships is at the center of Mary Higgins Clark's newest thriller "You Belong to Me," a masterful combination of page-turning suspense and classic mystery.
When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself -- and those closest to her -- to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against.
Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor. Soon Susan finds herself in a race against time, for not only does the killer stalk these lonely women, but he seems intent on eliminating anyone who can possibly further Susan's investigation.
As her search intensifies, Susan finds herself confronted with the realization that one of the men who have become important figures in her life might actually be the killer. And as she gets closer to uncovering his identity, she realizes almost too late that the hunter has become the hunted, and that she herself is marked for murder.
In its review of her previous novel "Pretend You Don't See Her," the "Detroit News" said of Mary Higgins Clark, "What's amazing...is how expertly [she] manages to keep us hooked time after time, and even better, create new plots, each as fresh as a mountain stream."
"You Belong to Me" is Mary Higgins Clark at her thrilling best.
You Don't Own Me (Under Suspicion, #6)
Mary Higgins Clark
""Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former host, Alex Buckley. Since then, the two have been happily planning a summer wedding and honeymoon, preparing for Alex's confirmation to a federal judicial appointment, and searching for the perfect New York City home for their new life together. But then Laurie is approached by Robert and Cynthia Bell, parents of Dr. Martin Bell, a famously charming and talented physician who was shot dead as he pulled into the driveway of his Greenwich Village carriage house five years ago. The Bells are sure that Martin's disgraced and erratic wife, Kendra, carried out the murder. Determined to prove Kendra's guilt and win custody over their grandchildren, they plead with Laurie to feature their son's case on "Under Suspicion," ensuring her that Kendra is willing to cooperate. Kendra has lived under a blanket of suspicion since Martin's death, with the tabloid media depicting her as a secretive, mentally unstable gold-digger. Laurie's show is a chance for her to clear her name. But unbeknownst to the Bells, Kendra has already refused once before to go forward with a re-investigation of her husband's murder, and her statements to the contrary only add to the appearance of guilt. But once Laurie dives into the case, she learns that Martin wasn't the picture-perfect husband, father, and doctor he appeared to be and was carrying secrets of his own. And what does the web of lies ensnaring the Bell family have to do with a dangerous stranger, who gazes at Laurie from afar and thinks, What a pretty girl, I'm sure she's going to be missed.
كأنك لا تراها
Mary Higgins Clark
لايسى فاريل هى النجم الصاعد فى عالم العقارات فى مانهاتن. عملها هو مفتاحها إلى شقق الآخرين... وحياتهم. فى إحدى تلك الشقق تشهد جريمة قتل. وقبل أن تلتقط المرأة المحتضر انفاسها تسلمها دفتر يوميات ابنتها المتوفاة مقتنعة بأنه ما كان يسعى وراءئه القاتل.
كان من الممكن أن تقفل الباب على تلك القصة وتمضى إلا أن فضولها يورطها فتحتفظ بنسخة من اليوميات ثم تسلم الأصل إلى الشرطة. وكأن الأحداث الغريبة تتعاقب لتثبت لها بأنها بخطوتها المتهورة هذه أصبحت الاسم التالى على قائمة القاتل
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