Rating:  Summary: Excellent Review: This was a great book. It will keep you wondering what is going to happen next. Lacey is full of strong will and will do anything to keep alive. I admire her strength to carry on. This is one of my favorites by Mary Higgins Clark.
Rating:  Summary: One of Clark's best ever Review: Mary Higgins Clark has already proven herself to be the queen of suspense and she certainly hasn't disappointed readers with this book. A dramatic beginning and tense, suspenseful action fill the book until its climatic end. The characters are well developed and very realistic. The story always focuses on the main plot, and never diverts itself from the action at hand. I will certainly remember this book for a very long time!
Rating:  Summary: Predictable Review: In the past I have truly enjoyed MHC's books. Perhaps by now her story patterns have become too predictable: single girl has information of use to a criminal, which handsome man vying for her affection can be trusted? This was pretty dull.
Rating:  Summary: Well, it was a MHC, so it was better than most books, but... Review: Well, I like Mary Higgins Clark's style of writing, and I will never put down a book of hers, but I found this one to be not quite up to par with her usual quality. For one thing, it seemed quite rushed. When Lacey/Alice was thinking that Tom and she loved eachother, it was only the 2nd time or so the two had been on a one-on-one level. And the culprit (I won't tell you who he/she is!) wasn't the greatest surprise either. I am used to MHC's style of having one of the main characters who you would never expect, be the killer. In this case it was a very small character. The ending also seemed very rushed and a little too conveinently. But I do not regret reading it, there were parts in the book I loved, and of course, MHC was the author so you've gotta love it baby. --Rachel
Rating:  Summary: Better than chocolate covered pretzels! Review: MHC talked me into buying more of her work with this book. The suspense was great, I couldn't read it fast enough. Another good one was "Where are the Children?" Way to be, girl!
Rating:  Summary: Race the author to the finish Review: As always, Clark carries the reader along, the suspense constantly building with the skill she has shown since "Where Are The Children". Her characters are believable, particularly in the suffering the protagonist undergoes in the witness relocation programme. The problem arises in the last couple or so chapters: It is as though Clark suddenly became bored with her characters or plot and rushed to the climax and resolution in order to get it over with. I was actually surprised when i discovered that i had only ten or so pages left to read, since i felt that, in order to continue at the same pace and style she had been using, she needed another thirty or thirty-five pages. Good book, but disappointing ending.
Rating:  Summary: Ho-hum Review: The plot was so thin that it only held my interest in a few spots. The last half of the book, I skimmed. Why? Because I was bored but I still wanted to see how it came out. Talk about contrived! Does Mrs. Clark have one more "Someone Is Watching" or "Where Are The Children" in her? They were gripping from beginning to end!
Rating:  Summary: Uninspired, unengaging, downright boring Review: I was once a huge fan of MHC. Some of her earlier work ("Where are the Children?" "A Stranger is Watching" "Stillwatch") is mesmerizing, thrilling, intelligent. Maybe there's only so many ways to tell a suspense story, and MHC has used them up. Maybe she's too caught up with her once-a-year publishing schedule. But in recent years, her books have blended into one, hurried, thinly plotted, poorly characaterized, blur. By now, she's created enough cookie-cutter single female heroines to populate a bake-off. This was the last MHC book I read, and was surprised to see so many positive reviews.
Rating:  Summary: Murders and Suspense Review: Lacey Farrel is a real-estate agent in New York. She witnesses the murder of one of her customers named Isabelle Warning. The killer sees Lacey while running out the door. Lacey saves a copy of the journal Isabelle gives her that is her daughter Heather's who was also murdered. Lacey is shot at while she is visiting her family so she is placed in the witness protection program in Minneappolis. She slips and tells her mother where she is staying and somehow the stalker also finds out. She realizes he knows where she is so she takes a plane back to New York where she goes to visit a woman who's husband had been killed and was mentioned in Heather's journal. The murderer was also in the house. Lacey saw and heard him on the stairs and threw a paperweight at him. He was arrested and they found out Heather's dad's partner was behind all the murders. Lacey started her life over again by calling a man she had fell in love with in Minneappolis and telling him who she really was and her whole story. One of Lacey's most interesting aspects was her courage. In the beginning she carries out Isabelle Warning's dying wish by concealing evidence from the police. Lacey is sent to a new place but still tries to start a new life and help the police find Isabelle's killer. Lacey is to determined to save her own life so she visits a woman she belives can help her. She realizes the killer is also there but still gets his gun away. Lacey's courage increased the suspense and made it more exciting. I would definitely recomend this book. It always had me on he ede of my seat and i never wanted to put it down. At times it was scary because the situation seemed so real and seemed it could happen to anybody. This book would be great for anyone who enjoys thrillers and suspense.
Rating:  Summary: scary Review: This book absolutely terrified me. The part that didn't scare me was boring, but the rest was very, very good. I couldn't help but give it a 3. It deserved it for the freaky part. It had me looking over my shoulder for a while there.
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