Rating: Summary: Excellent! Bravo Mary! Review: Finally! After her last few books I despaired of her writing one that measured up to the quality that was apparent in her first 12 books. But this one was really well written! Suspenseful and full of little sub-plots that were cleverly woven together toward the end. And, "whodunit", was a wonderful and refreshing twist!
Rating: Summary: A really good book even for Clark Review: The state of Connecticut accuses Molly Carpenter Lash of murdering her spouse Gary in cold blood. The testimony points out that she angrily left for the Cape a week ago. One particular witness, who loves Molly, sadly states that she found the accused sleeping in her bed while her husband lay dying. Finally, they found his blood on her person. Molly swears she does not remember what happened after she returned home. Fearing a hung jury due to the fact that Gary's girl friend was pregnant, the DA cuts a deal with her attorney to change the charges to manslaughter. Molly accepts and goes to prison for a maximum stay of ten years. Five and a half years later, the state paroles Molly. She informs the media that her memory has begun to return and firmly believes that she did not kill her spouse. She insists a third person was in the house when Gary died. Molly believes that one day her full memory will return and she will know the identity of the true killer. Molly has thrown down the gauntlet, setting in motion a series of murders that lead back to her. WE'LL MEET AGAIN is an enjoyable who-done-it that will provide immense pleasure for fans of Mary Higgins Clark. Though the overused amnesia gimmick seems too convenient of a mechanism, the mystery remains taut and filled with red herrings to make Molly appear guilty even to readers who know otherwise. Especially interesting is a former classmate of Molly, a reporter for the True Crime TV show, who provides insight into the convicted murderer's personality. Ms. Clark has written an entertaining novel that is fun to read. Harriet Klausner
Rating: Summary: A Riveting Read Review: In We'll Meet Again, Molly Carpenter-Lasch is tried and convicted of killing her husband, beloved Dr. Gary Lasch. There's one problem though--Molly has no recollection of the events of that night. She awoke the morning after the murder to find herself covered in her dead husband's blood. A plea bargain gets her a shorter sentence and upon her release Molly declares on TV for the world to see that she didn't kill her husband but she will try to find out who did. Enter Fran Simmons, school chum whose father committed suicide for stealing money from the library fund. Fran is now an investigative reporter and Molly wants her to help her find the truth behind her husband's murder. This story was hard to get into but after it gets going it is well worth the time. There are a lot of characters involved which makes it at times very frustrating keeping them straight. I found myself going back to reread pages trying to keep them straightened out in my mind. The storyline is good, although a little confusing when speaking of the HMO's. The book is fast-paced after about page 100. I found myself not really enjoying the book until I had passed the 100 page milestone. Then it becomes so good I couldn't think of not finishing it. And I must say the culprit was NOT who I thought it would be. We'll Meet Again is a book well worth reading. Just keep in mind you need to get past the somewhat boring beginning to truly enjoy it. Although not one of my favorite Mary Higgins Clark books one enjoyable to read.
Rating: Summary: Untitled Review: Having been a first time reader of a Mary Higgins Clark novel I was pleasantly surprised. WeÕll Meet Again is a murder mystery that definitely kept me on my toes. In the story, Molly Carpenter Lasch is accused of murdering her husband quite brutally with a Remington bronze sculpture and is incarcerated on those charges. Her memory of that night was unexistant until she was out on parole and bit by bit events of that evening started fitting into place. Determined to find her husbands killer, she and an old classmate, Fran Simmons, begin putting the pieces of the murder together and start to investigate what the police wonÕt. Through the course of the novel dark secrets are revealed and situations occur that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Mary Higgins Clark is a fascinating writer, she does a great job of keeping her audience in suspense. It was surprisingly easy to keep track of the characters in the book, and the ending was not at all anticipated. I enjoyed this novel and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys suspense or someone who is lacking a little excitement in their life.
Rating: Summary: An Intense Mystery That Will Hold you Until the end! Review: "We'll Meet Again" is a mystery about a woman who is convicted and serves time for killing her husband. Although, she doesn't believe she could take another human life, and her memory of the night her husband was murdered is very foggy. I am a new reader of mysteries and the only other one I've read was "The Cradle Will Fall" also by Clark. The plot in the beginning appears to be very similar, malpractice of hospitals and the beautiful woman is the main character. But, this is no ordinary novel. Once I really got to know the characters and got more into the plot, it became very interesting book. Clark does a very good job with description in her writing. The different scenes and characters throughout the novel are so well described, as to when you get to middle of the book you feel as if your just looking on, in these peoples lives. This quote is from the beginning, when the main character, Molly, comes back to her house to describe it, "...touching her grandmother's ornate silver tea service in the dining room while willing herself not to think of the prison dining room, the coarse plates, the meals that had been like ashes in her mouth. Everything seemed so familiar, yet she couldn't help feeling herself to be an intruder." Clark does a great job of incorporating personality characteristics, while still describing the setting as in the above quote. Not only does she describe scenes well, but also she describes characters very well also. "Her body filled out, and like her mother and sister she was now size 14. The dark hair that used to bounce on her shoulders was a trim curly cap around her heart shaped face." Her wording in how she writes, is amazing to me how she can she can find simple descriptive words like "curly cap" and "heart shaped face" and uses the same creative style throughout. Besides being very descriptive, she also creates irony in both this story and "The Cradle Will Fall." Situational irony is used a lot by her which makes the novel that much more suspenseful. You know what the other character's in the book are thinking and planning on doing, but at the same time the other character is oblivious and usually a character or two gets themselves into trouble. It raises this urge in you to scream "No, Don't go there!" Overall, the book, plot and characters were very well described and easy to follow. Sometimes it almost seems like her description of some items almost too overwhelming, and repetitive. But it's a very good book, and has an interesting twist at the end!
Rating: Summary: We'll Meet Again Review: This book moved quickly and was interesting to read. The solution explained the events perfectly. It starts with Molly, a housewife, who is being sent to jail for murdering her husband, Gary. Now, six years later, she is being released and swears she didn't murder Gary. She hires Fran, a reporter, and Philip, her lawyer, to prove her innnocence. Throughout the story, numerous people are killed and Fran discovers there is more to the story than she originally knew.
Rating: Summary: We'll Meet Again Review: This novel is about Molly Carpenter Lasch. The wealthy wife of Dr. Gary Lasch, who was murdered in his own study. The wife spends time in prison for his murder and is released early. She then teams up with an old classmate Fran Simmons, a reporter, to prove her innocence.I have read about eight Mary Higgins Clark books and i have enjoyed all of them. This one is no exception.
Rating: Summary: A Riveting Read Review: In We'll Meet Again, Molly Carpenter-Lasch is tried and convicted of killing her husband, beloved Dr. Gary Lasch. There's one problem though--Molly has no recollection of the events of that night. She awoke the morning after the murder to find herself covered in her dead husband's blood. A plea bargain gets her a shorter sentence and upon her release Molly declares on TV for the world to see that she didn't kill her husband but she will try to find out who did. Enter Fran Simmons, school chum whose father committed suicide for stealing money from the library fund. Fran is now an investigative reporter and Molly wants her to help her find the truth behind her husband's murder. This story was hard to get into but after it gets going it is well worth the time. There are a lot of characters involved which makes it at times very frustrating keeping them straight. I found myself going back to reread pages trying to keep them straightened out in my mind. The storyline is good, although a little confusing when speaking of the HMO's. The book is fast-paced after about page 100. I found myself not really enjoying the book until I had passed the 100 page milestone. Then it becomes so good I couldn't think of not finishing it. And I must say the culprit was NOT who I thought it would be. We'll Meet Again is a book well worth reading. Just keep in mind you need to get past the somewhat boring beginning to truly enjoy it. Although not one of my favorite Mary Higgins Clark books one enjoyable to read.
Rating: Summary: Couldn't put it down at the end Review: This book is a book that keeps you own your toes. This book is a good book for people that like mystrey. In this book a women is blamed for killing her husband in their own house. This married couple are very rich. They own two mansions and many cars. She's mad because she found out that her husband is cheating on her. She leaves and goes to the other house. He calls and tells her to come home, but she says no if I come home than I will kill you....
Rating: Summary: GOOD MYSTERY A La M.H.Clark Review: You should know what you're in for if you have read any of Clark's books...no bloody gore or gross language, just a nice, easy read mystery. The plot centers around a hospital, HMOs, and the murder of one of the doctors. Molly is just released from prison for killing her former husband, Gary. She cannot remember doing it but can't prove it. Ten days later, Gary's girlfriend is killed and Molly is again the suspect. Fran, an investigative reporter wants to do a TV show about it. School friends of Molly's offer support as does her lawyer. But do they really believe she didn't do it? Molly's part-time housekeeper has a few secrets she is not sharing so as to protect her not- normal son who doesn't always take his medications. But he likes Molly and wants to visit her. Power plays for the hospital to take over the HMOs are suspicious in their secret meetings. Who is the killer(s) and how were they done? MHC keeps you in enough suspense and flips the suspect out of the stew to surprise all but the very best of readers who often claim to know the killer from page two.
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