The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a historical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she has coauthored five more suspense novels. Her sister-in-law is the also author Mary Jane Clark.
Clark’s books have sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone. Her books are beloved around the world and made her an international bestseller many times over.
My goal for the last 2 years has been to read what I have so viola this book. It was published in 1995 so I expected it to be out of date, but not as much as I expected. Mary Higgins Clark died in 2020 and I’m not sure if I read something from her prior(maybe in my younger years). I enjoyed the story of who murdered the plastic surgeons daughter. This might be classified as a cozy mystery now days.
Despite some cringeworthy dialogue, clunky text, and a ten year old character written more like an eighteen year old this is a well crafted mystery. I like how the various components of the case came to a head nice and late in the book and the strings were more or less tied neatly before the perpetrator was revealed. If only I'd heeded the clue in the very first page I might have had more faith in my identifying the murderer when the thought first occurred to me.