In her new thriller, America's #1 bestselling Queen of Suspense delves into a legal battle over the guilt or innocence of a man accused of murderin...
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Jun 21, 2009
Amy
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Okay, so Mary Higgins Clark has been my all-time favorite author practically my whole reading lifetime. I would stay up all night reading her latest book and then re-read all of her old ones. I guess, all of my goodread friends and all your great recommendations for books that I've been reading has put a little damper on poor Mary Higgins... her books just pale in comparison. I will admit that I did stay up late to finish it, but it was pretty predictable and way too cheesy (I know, you would
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Jun 21, 2009
Sally
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I really enjoyed reading this book. I found this to be a little different from her other mystery novels, and I have read all of them.
In this one, Emily Wallace is a prosecutor trying a man for murder but is fighting with her inner feelings of his innocence. Her star witness is not exactly credible. What would you do if you were facing 10 years jail time? She is also a heart transplant patient and a war widow. Lives by herself in a small, New Jersey town next to an older man who she i More...
In this one, Emily Wallace is a prosecutor trying a man for murder but is fighting with her inner feelings of his innocence. Her star witness is not exactly credible. What would you do if you were facing 10 years jail time? She is also a heart transplant patient and a war widow. Lives by herself in a small, New Jersey town next to an older man who she i More...
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Aug 06, 2011
I've been reading Clark's books for 15 years now, since age 11, and I have to say I have finally managed to completely guess the outcome of one of her books. That doesn't mean I didn't utterly love it, though. It was a different form, more or less, from other of her novels, but enjoyable nonetheless. Figuring it out may have just been a matter of becoming better at spotting Clark's hints, but I generally don't try to expend much effort in guessing anyway - a book loses its entertainment value if
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Jan 15, 2012
Kari
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Famous Broadway star Natalie Raines is dead. What no one knows is that just before she is murdered, she comes face-to-face with the man who she believes murdered her best friend years ago.
Two years later, Natalie’s ex-husband is charged with her murder, a case that is held together with the testimony of a career criminal.
Emily Wallace is the prosecutor in the case. She is certain Jimmy’s testimony is true, but bit-by-bit the pieces start to unravel and Emily isn’t so sure More...
Two years later, Natalie’s ex-husband is charged with her murder, a case that is held together with the testimony of a career criminal.
Emily Wallace is the prosecutor in the case. She is certain Jimmy’s testimony is true, but bit-by-bit the pieces start to unravel and Emily isn’t so sure More...
Jan 05, 2012
Lígia
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Mary Higgins Clark é talvez a autora de mistérios/thrillers que comecei a ler mais cedo, graças a alguns livros condensados das SRD que havia em casa dos meus pais e conquistou-me logo na primeira história... Ainda sei qual foi: "Onde Estão as Crianças?" Lembro-me de ficar empolgada e ansiosa por chegar ao final e descobrir o que afinal acontecera... Mesmo agora, só ao escrever sobre isso, sou capaz de me lembrar perfeitamente dessa sensação da descoberta dos mistérios cheios de suspen
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Jul 20, 2011
Nadine Rose
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When famous Broadway Actress Natalie Raines is found dying from a gunshot wound in her home, the obvious suspect is the husband she was in the process of divorcing. When a career criminal comes forward and claims that her husband offered him money to kill her, the case seems to be a slam dunk. Of course, in true Mary Higgins Clark style everything quickly goes pear-shaped, nothing is ever what it seems.
I do love Mary Higgins Clark. Where are the Children was the first “grown up” book I More...
I do love Mary Higgins Clark. Where are the Children was the first “grown up” book I More...
Aug 29, 2010
Secret Bookshelf
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Just Take My Heart is a mystery thriller written by Mary Higgins Clark, who is one of my most favourite authors. All the time I am reading a novel written by her she is able to surprise me in the end. There is always something I did not expect throughout the whole story.
This story actually consists of two independent stories that seem to have almost nothing to do with each other until the very end of the book. It is about an assistant prosecutor, Emily, who is trying to elucidate the More...
This story actually consists of two independent stories that seem to have almost nothing to do with each other until the very end of the book. It is about an assistant prosecutor, Emily, who is trying to elucidate the More...
Aug 17, 2010
Karen & Gerard
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WOW! Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark is full of suspense and true-to-life characters. It’s a murder mystery because although the husband, Greg Aldrich, is on trial for killing his wife, Natalie, he claims he didn’t do it. It is a high profile case that is discussed every evening on the show, “Courtside” which is hosted by Greg’s best friend.
Emily, the prosecuting attorney, goes after a conviction even though she has some doubt about the defendant’s guilt. She has a soft More...
Emily, the prosecuting attorney, goes after a conviction even though she has some doubt about the defendant’s guilt. She has a soft More...
Jun 09, 2010
Denise
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3.0 out of 5 stars 3 1/2 star read -- you know everyone loves Mary Higgins Clark, June 20, 2009
This review is from: Just Take My Heart: A Novel (Hardcover)
No matter how predictable - and this novel was the kind where you know who did it and have the mystery solved by the end of the first chapter - you just can't help but admit that Mary Higgins Clark is a master storyteller. She pulls you into the lives of the characters and spins the tale so adroitly that you can't help bei More...
This review is from: Just Take My Heart: A Novel (Hardcover)
No matter how predictable - and this novel was the kind where you know who did it and have the mystery solved by the end of the first chapter - you just can't help but admit that Mary Higgins Clark is a master storyteller. She pulls you into the lives of the characters and spins the tale so adroitly that you can't help bei More...
Nov 24, 2009
Nolan
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As this book opens, Natalie Raines, a prominent Broadway star, is planning to end her marriage to her agent and husband Greg Aldrich. It’s more than obvious that the two still love one another, but the marriage nonetheless has stumbled badly. While at a cast party following a show, Natalie runs into a man who had engaged in an affair with her former roommate years earlier. She casually called him by the pet name her roommate used and was stunned by his reaction. Her roommate had been murdere
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Sep 08, 2009
Gena
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I have been reading a lot of deeper things lately - some that I add to Goodreads and some that I don't, so it was time for lighter fare. That's usually when I pull out something like a Mary Higgins Clark book. I will admit that her plots and characters are usually way over the top or extremely unbelievable but I can typically suspend belief to enjoy them. This one, however, pushed the envelope even for me. This is not spoiling anything because you learn this either on the book jacket of very ear
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Aug 13, 2009
Annie
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Mary Higgins Clark books will always remind me of my grandma. Whenever a new book she writes is released my Gram will purchase it. I love it. Her bookcase downstairs is filled with every single novel, I daresay, Clark has written. Also for as long as I can remember, my Gram is always gracious enough to let my sisters, aunt and I borrow it. This was the case with Just Take My Heart. Like most Higgins Clark mystery/thrillers, this was a light quick read. A famous actress, in the midst of a d
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Aug 01, 2009
Michael
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Broadway actress Natalie Raines is murdered. She thought she noticed the man she suspected of killing her roommate, Jamie, years before. She returns to her home and opens the door to find the killer.
However, it is Natalie's estranged husband Greg Aldrich who is accused of her murder.
Emily Wallace, assistant prosecutor is given the case. As Emily is pondering this, we learn that Zach Lanning has been spying on her and set up a microphone in her home. When she's at home, he watches he More...
However, it is Natalie's estranged husband Greg Aldrich who is accused of her murder.
Emily Wallace, assistant prosecutor is given the case. As Emily is pondering this, we learn that Zach Lanning has been spying on her and set up a microphone in her home. When she's at home, he watches he More...
Jul 28, 2009
Anna
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If I could give this 3.5 stars, I would, because it was actually one of the better recent Clark thrillers. Here, she takes some of the standard elements from her previous books, but mixes them up and uses them more as red herrings than to the ends they served in other stories. A far better, clearer tale than the weird high-school reunion book I read several months back.
That said, it's interesting to read her directly after what is possibly one of Dorothy Sayers' best Lord Peter Wimse More...
That said, it's interesting to read her directly after what is possibly one of Dorothy Sayers' best Lord Peter Wimse More...
Jul 28, 2011
Tamara
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JUST TAKE MY HEART was my first book by Mary Higging Clark whom I've heard is an awesome writer. They were not kidding. She IS awesome.
When I started the book, I was a bit confused because there were so many narrators, but, as it went on, I realized that that helped understand better what was going on. I enjoy reading suspense novels, but I don't usually read about the trial. Normally, I read about the investigation. The change was refreshing.
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When I started the book, I was a bit confused because there were so many narrators, but, as it went on, I realized that that helped understand better what was going on. I enjoy reading suspense novels, but I don't usually read about the trial. Normally, I read about the investigation. The change was refreshing.
This book starts with the murder More...
Apr 13, 2009
Laurel-Rain
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Actress Natalie Raines flees to her Cape Cod vacation home – to think and to escape the fear that whoever killed her friend Jamie years ago has just reappeared in her life. Someone whose picture she has seen, but which was missing from Jamie’s wallet when the body was found all those years ago.
Estranged spouse Gregg Aldrich has been persistent in his efforts to persuade Natalie to reconcile. Almost to the point that he is “stalking” her.
Returning to her New Jersey home, More...
Estranged spouse Gregg Aldrich has been persistent in his efforts to persuade Natalie to reconcile. Almost to the point that he is “stalking” her.
Returning to her New Jersey home, More...
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Jun 21, 2011
Natalie
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This was another Mary Higgins Clark book I picked up on CD and listened to while working around the house. This is something I've come to love doing as it often gets me to do projects I really don't want to do (de-cluttering, folding laundry etc.) I like Mary Higgins Clark, but I do have to take her books in moderation. I guessed fairly early on who the bad guy was, and there were very few surprises (though how the whole thing went down in the end was unexpected, even if all the players were exp
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Apr 11, 2011
Susan
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Mary Higgins Clark is one of my favorite authors. I really appreciate her mysteries because they are thrilling with no sex scenes and no bad language.
I enjoyed this one, but got kind of bogged down with the long courtroom scenes.
As in most of Clark's books, there is more than one story being told. The main story in this book is about a young lawyer who is trying to prove a man guilty, even though she has doubts whether he really killed his wife. She gets a guilty verdict, More...
I enjoyed this one, but got kind of bogged down with the long courtroom scenes.
As in most of Clark's books, there is more than one story being told. The main story in this book is about a young lawyer who is trying to prove a man guilty, even though she has doubts whether he really killed his wife. She gets a guilty verdict, More...
Apr 03, 2010
Tammie
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This one was slow to get going and the trial took up the first half. I don't really like reading long drawn out trials. Also this book is full of coincidences. Just unbelievably full of them. There is the heart transplant, the prosecutor knowing the killer, the delivery man who just happened to both meet the guy on trail for murder and make a delivery to his apartment. Natalie who just happens to meet the killer of her roommate from many years earlier, and even recognizes him from a small snaps
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May 06, 2010
Amy
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It starts with this woman named Natalie, who is an actress, who sees a man she recognizes from fifteen years before. He is the same guy who is in a picture that her roommate Jamie had in her wallet. Her roommate was found strangled in the park while out jogging on morning. Jamie had a pet name for him, called him Jess. Natalie makes the mistake of calling him that, and he hears it. Later she is found dead, but as it turns out he might not have been the only one wanting her dead... He ex-husband
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Jul 05, 2010
Bridget
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Another Mary Higgins Clark entry, this time intertwining two womens' lives in a way that I didn't really expect. Emily Wallace is given the assignment of proving that the husband of a rising Broadway star killed her. The story of the victim and her past as well as that of Emily come together in a very interesting manner. Emily has her case all figured out - or so she thinks. Along the way, people and circumstances start to worry her, and she is no longer 100% convinced that the defendant is
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Jan 19, 2010
Trisha
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I almost didn't finish this book. I was about half way through and it still hadn't gotten any better. But I am glad that I stuck with it because the second half of the book was like many other Mary Higgins Clark books, it had lots of suspense and left you guessing. I guess what I didn't like most about the beginning of the book was the trial. It was a page by page of the Greg Aldrich trial, a man who was being accused of murdering his wife. But after the book started going and Emily's neighbor,
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Jun 11, 2011
Kristen
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Feb 01, 2011
Athornton
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I'd have to say this is another good book from Mary Higgins Clark, one of my favorite authors. Normally I can predict what will happen with the endings of her books and I did guess this one but there was one last detail that was revealed on the last page that made me go "hum" that I wasn't expecting. I was waiting for something to develop between the main character and one of the detectives and it didn't, almost thought the book could have used a few more pages to wrap up some additi
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Jun 21, 2010
Susie
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Emily Wallace assistant prosecutor just got the case of a lifetime prosecuting Gregg Aldrich for the death of his wife the actress Natalie Raines. But even as she feels like she will win the case there is a small voice in her head or should I say heart that says he is innocent and her key witness is as untrustworthy as they come. And to top it off her next door neighbor is starting to really give her the creeps.
Poor Emily she really is oblivious to all the people that are out t More...
Apr 07, 2010
Princess
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I am not liking this book at all. It's been so long since I've read a Mary Higgins Clark book and I remember enjoying them in the past so I'm not sure if I've just read some really great books lately and so this one is just lackluster to me or if it just isn't as good in general.
The writing seems stilted and elementary without much sophistication of language. I'm going to read another 50 or 75 pages before I decide about abandoning it.
Okay, I finished it today at school. More...
The writing seems stilted and elementary without much sophistication of language. I'm going to read another 50 or 75 pages before I decide about abandoning it.
Okay, I finished it today at school. More...
Jan 20, 2011
Moondust
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"When Natalie Raines, Broadway Star, is found dying from a gunshot wound, her former husband, Greg Aldrich,is the chief suspect.What no one knows is that only days before, Natalie came face to face with the man who had killed her former roommate,whom she's known when they were struggling actresses.
Handling the case is Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor. As Aldrich trial is making headlines, Emily is warned that this high-profile case will reveal deep More...
Handling the case is Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor. As Aldrich trial is making headlines, Emily is warned that this high-profile case will reveal deep More...
Jul 09, 2009
Debbie
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I love Mary Higgins Clark...and this book was no exception except it did drag a bit in parts for me...but still all in all a wonderful read!
Emily Wallace is a 32 year old assistant prosecutor and she spends long hours preparing for trial in everything that she does...but particularly in the case against Gregg Aldrich who is accused of killing his wife, well known Broadway star Natalie Raines. While Emily is preparing for this particular trial, a neighbor of hers, Zach, volunteers to More...
Emily Wallace is a 32 year old assistant prosecutor and she spends long hours preparing for trial in everything that she does...but particularly in the case against Gregg Aldrich who is accused of killing his wife, well known Broadway star Natalie Raines. While Emily is preparing for this particular trial, a neighbor of hers, Zach, volunteers to More...
Sep 07, 2009
Donna
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The murder of Natalie Raines, America's favorite movie star, raises a furor. The police suspect her husband as they are in the middle of a divorce. The husband's friends say he hasn't even a smidgen of violence in his character and he was still totally in love with Natalie. The police have only circumstantial evidence until a thief facing a long sentence offers testimony that the husband tried to solicit him to kill Natalie. The thief isn't very credible except he is able to describe the husband
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Jun 22, 2009
Kathryn
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