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 enlarge | Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 2471
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8.5 x 5.5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1416566384
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416566380
ASIN: 1416566384
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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 A great, suspenseful book September 9, 2008
As usual, Mary Higgins Clark does not disappoint. Her books are easy to read, hard to put down, suspenseful stories. I just love her stuff. She leaves you guessing until the very end.
 I'm still here September 6, 2008
What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon! I read my first M H Clark in the late 1970's and she's still able to keep me enticed. Thanks, Mary.
 Great idea..horrible book September 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For many years, MHC was the only mystery author I would read. Her plots are usually interesting and unique. I was very excited to read this book because the idea/plot sounded interesting. (I still think the idea could make a great movie or something too.) But she introduced entirely too many characters. Every chapter I found myself remembering a new character and what his/her occupation was, etc. I did have to flip back to earlier chapters quite frequently to try and remember different names and it got increasingly frustrating.
Her suspects are also becoming very predictable. I knew, while reading each chapter that had suspicious clues about someone, that he/she didn't do it. It's always the people who don't get mentioned that much that did it. She needs to set up more suspicion around everyone so the ending is shocking.
Does anybody know of any other well known mystery authors to try? I'm putting MHC books away for awhile.
 SO SO September 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not the thriller I was thinking it would be. OK plot, but I had it figured out in the first few chapters. It is ok, but not a page turner.
 I always try to like it........... August 27, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I remember how much I enjoyed Mary Higgins Clark 's very first books. They were fun, light suspenseful novels that delivered a wallop. Now her books are all pure formula. It is so sad. Pretty heroine, handsome men. The characters are so unreal and one dimensional that I just can't take it seriously.
Her plots always sound interesting and this one was no exception. It was also based on a true story which gave me even more incentive to give yet another book by her a try. But it reads like maybe her last ten novels have. More is put into the description of hairstyles and clothing than plot. Also the main characters are always upper class, well groomed. There is just no reality.
I thought I would skim through this to get to the end but I read half and honestly didn't care at all. This is not the sign of a good writer. I am an avid reader and love psychological suspense. The book was just boring formula.
Obviously MHC has the large audience she needs that wants just what she delivers. She need not exert much effort. They continue to pick up this fluff and it does serve a purpose if this audience is made happy. But literature it is not. And now I have finally learned my lesson. No matter how good the plot sounds the formula will be the same.
If you want a well developed suspenseful psychological novel certainly look elsewhere.
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