Alafair Burke

Alafair Burke asked Mary Higgins Clark:

3. THE CINDERELLA MURDER involves the investigation into the murder of a promising UCLA college student named Susan Dempsey. One of the challenges of crime fiction is to make victims feel real to readers who may only "meet" a murder victim on the page for a short time, if at all. Do you think we met that challenge in THE CINDERELLA MURDER? What will make readers care about Susan?

Mary Higgins Clark I definitely think we met that challenge! We see Susan through the eyes of her mother and in the first chapter, through the eyes of her father, and then of course, through her roommate and other college friends. She was beautiful, she was talented, she was hardworking, and she had a joy of life that makes it that much harder to have lost her.

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Raeschelle

Raeschelle asked Mary Higgins Clark:

Hello! You are my favorite author. I've been enjoying your books since my Grannies introduced me to them when I was young. My question is...Of all the heroine's you've written about, who do you most relate to and why?

Genevieve

Genevieve asked Mary Higgins Clark:

How would you say your writing has evolved throughout your carreer?

Jenny Propst

Jenny Propst asked Mary Higgins Clark:

I love your books and a lot of the titles have intrigued me. I know from other authors that a lot of times their editors either want them to come up with another title or they have a title they want to use, does that happen to you and if so does it happen sometimes or a lot of time?

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