Death On The Cape And Other Stories

Death on the Cape and Other Stories - a compelling collection of thrilling stories from the international bestselling author of pyschological suspense.

Mary Higgins Clark's first novel Where are the Children? was an instant bestseller. She lives in the United States and has five children and a host of grand-children.

An airline stewardess is entrusted with a list of names which could threaten the lives of her 700 passengers... 
 
A young woman is tortured by terrifying nightmares, until she finds a gramophone record that unlocks the door concealing a dark memory... 
 
Lottery-winner turned amateur detective, Alvirah Meehan returns from a trip to England to find the body of a Broadway starlet in their wardrobe... 
 
Peopled by a colourful cast of characters and brimming over with bizarre twists and turns, this collection is further proof of Mary Higgins Clark's ingenious touch and superlative skill. Start reading - and you won't be able to stop.

All Around The Town

A New York Times bestseller. A bestselling story of suspense, All Around The Town is a mastreful psychological thriller from the world's most successful writer of suspense novels.

A psychological thriller that's so gripping you won't want to put it down for an instant

For sheer story-telling power - and breathtaking pace - Clark is without peer

Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, crafts a terrifying story of murder and obsession with 'a slambam finish'

Mary Higgins Clark is one of the most famous authors in the world. Born in the Bronx in 1929, she has written forty-two books, all of which have been bestsellers in the United States. The leading force in the genres of suspense novels and psychological thrillers, Mary Higgins Clark is also a minority owner of the American basketball team, the Brooklyn Nets. She has five children, including a daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, who is also a successful suspense writer. Where Are The Children, Mary's debut suspense novel, has been printed seventy-five times.

When Professor Allan Grant is found stabbed to death, all the evidence points to an obsessed student, 21-year-old Laurie Kenyon. She sent him passionate letters, stalked him, watched him through his study window. And after the murder, she wakes up in her dormitory, covered in blood and clutching the knife that killed him, with no memory of the brutal crime. 
 
Laurie's sister and attorney, Sarah, is the only one who understands Laurie's daily nightmare and the shocking lingering effects of a childhood kidnapping too hideous to be recalled. Laurie's abductors - Bic Hawkins and his wife Opal, now prominent TV evangelists - fear she will start to remember her life with them. They must ensure that her past remains buried at all costs, even if it means Bic has to carry out the murderous threat he made all those years ago to a terrified girl...

While My Pretty One Sleeps

A sinister labyrinth of greed, ambition and deceit

The first murder is only the start of the terror...

Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody, and her forthcoming book is about to expose the leading figures in the fashion world. So there are more than enough suspects when she is found murdered, her throat slashed. 
 
For Neeve Kearny, the owner of an exclusive New York boutique, the killing of one of her best customers has eerie echos of another death that occurred many years earlier- the murder of her own mother. Are the two deaths linked? Suddenly Neeve is plunged into the mystery of Ethel's murder, following a trail that leads from the glittering pleasure palaces of New York's rich and beautiful to the Mafia underworld. And who is the killer who reckons that anyone as inquisitive as Neeve deserves to die?

Loves Music, Loves To Dance

Brilliant, nail-biting...Original, fast-paced and absolutely unputdownable

The throat-clutching denouement is pure Clark - inevitable, horrible and, ultimately, irresistable

Oozes tension from the very first page. Gripping

Mary Higgins Clark was born and raised in New York. It was only after she married that she started to write short stories; some years and many rejections later, she sold her first story for $100. After the death of her first husband, she turned to write novels, and began to enjoy international success with the publication of Where are the Children? - her first suspense novel. The many novels she has since written are world-wide bestsellers.

Erin and Darcy, answering personal ads as research for a TV show, discover a whole new New York sub-culture - adulterers, con men, the shy and frankly weird, all looking for love. And one man looking for something darker . . . 
 
A serial killer who has just got away with murder for fifteen years, and has promised himself just two more . . .

Anastasia Syndrome

The International bestseller from the high queen of suspense, with a bouquet of surprise, romance and spellbinding tension

Trapped in her seventeeth-century past, a brilliant writer exacts an ancient revenge in the twentieth... 
 
A child wanders, lost and alone, in the maze of New York... 
 
A lottery ticket turns up a winning combination of love and death...

Mary Higgins Clark

For sheer storytelling power - and breathtaking pace - Clark is without peer

Clark can prickle scalps with shivery skill

Young news reporter Meghan Collins is on an assignment in a busy casualty department of a New York hospital. A trauma team bring in a street mugging victim, a young woman robbed of her identification. The medics are working furiously to revive her, but finally give up, remove the oxygen mask that has covered her face and Meghan hurls head first into a living nightmare. 
 
The face is a mirror image of her own...To add to the mystery of her murdered doppelganger, the recent death of Meghan's father is suddenly being treated as a suspicious case...As the links between these two mysterious stories increase, Meghan's own life could be in danger.

Mary Higgins Clark

Praise for I'll Be Seeing You

For sheer storytelling power - and breathtaking pace - Clark is without peer

Clark can prickle scalps with shivery skill

Books by Mary Higgins Clark

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