Then and Now

I think I was fourteen when I read my first Mary Higgins Clark novel. The book was WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN and it was chilling. To that point, I’d never really read anything like that, unless you want to count Nancy Drew (which was much more mundane in the suspense area). Needless to say, I was hooked.

I believe the next one of hers that I read was A CRY IN THE NIGHT (my all time favorite suspense novel even after all these years). It was this book that changed my fiction dreams from children’s...