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Summary: A fast paced and cleverly disguised journey
Review: This murder mystery is a fast paced and cleverly disguised journey. I was wrong in each instance along the way when, in my mind, I labeled one of the characters the likely perp and I just about covered them all.In all honesty, before this I was not familiar with Clark's other titles or her name. I can guarantee you that will now change. She's my kind of author.
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Summary: fast-paced and gripping
Review: Washington correspondent Cassie Sheridan is on her way to the top with an evening New York based show on the horizon until her career derails. Cassie reported that a serial rapist raped the daughter of the FBI Director. The teenage girl already struggling to cope kills herself when Cassie reveals her exclusive on national TV. Her station exiles Cassie to the Miami Bureau until her contract ends and her career with it. Her husband and daughter sick of her ambition refuse to talk to her adding to her feelings of isolation. Now she is reporting on a coming hurricane when preadolescent Vincent Baylor finds a human hand with a ring on it on the beach. Vincent takes the ring with plans to pawn it knowing his desperate family could use the cash. However, the killer needs that ring and will murder to obtain it. Cassie and Vincent team up in an attempt to identify the culprit, but neither realize they are in the eye of a murderous human hurricane. NOBODY KNOWS is fast-paced and gripping as the suspense builds up while readers wonder if Cassie will overstep her bounds again and what the killer will do. The crisp story line will grab the audience in spite of the Ferris Bueller-like pontificating. The support cast is somewhat stereotyped but likable as the families of Vincent and Cassie are used to evoke emotion from fans and to provide further insight into the lead characters. Though Mary Jane Clark has written a fine novel, the bottom line is Cassie is not likable and this is her tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: fast-paced and gripping
Review: Washington correspondent Cassie Sheridan is on her way to the top with an evening New York based show on the horizon until her career derails. Cassie reported that a serial rapist raped the daughter of the FBI Director. The teenage girl already struggling to cope kills herself when Cassie reveals her exclusive on national TV. Her station exiles Cassie to the Miami Bureau until her contract ends and her career with it. Her husband and daughter sick of her ambition refuse to talk to her adding to her feelings of isolation. Now she is reporting on a coming hurricane when preadolescent Vincent Baylor finds a human hand with a ring on it on the beach. Vincent takes the ring with plans to pawn it knowing his desperate family could use the cash. However, the killer needs that ring and will murder to obtain it. Cassie and Vincent team up in an attempt to identify the culprit, but neither realize they are in the eye of a murderous human hurricane. NOBODY KNOWS is fast-paced and gripping as the suspense builds up while readers wonder if Cassie will overstep her bounds again and what the killer will do. The crisp story line will grab the audience in spite of the Ferris Bueller-like pontificating. The support cast is somewhat stereotyped but likable as the families of Vincent and Cassie are used to evoke emotion from fans and to provide further insight into the lead characters. Though Mary Jane Clark has written a fine novel, the bottom line is Cassie is not likable and this is her tale. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Instead of Nobody Knows, Who Knew?
Review: Who knew that an author can write such a fast paced story with a list of possible suspects only to wrap it up to quickly and not give an in-dept look as to why the villain is actually a villain. In this book, a rapist disquised as a clown is raping women. After I finished this book I was still wondering why a guy would need to put on circus make up in order to rape women. What a crazy freak he was but why was this individual so fascinated by clowns and raping women. Please do not give me the usual, my mother beat the crap out of me and my father took off.
I have read all of MJC's books and with the exception of her lastest, No Where to Run and her earlier books, I have been extremely disappointed. I am not disappointed with the the author, her characters or even her plot line, I just don't like her endings. They wrap up too quickly and leave many questions unanswered. I sometimes like to read a book where the reason behind the crime is even more surprising than the unveiling of the villain.
I still give her a 4 because she keeps me reading even though I know I may not like the ending. Hopefully like in her latest book, No Where to Run, she will continue to improve her endings.
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