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Summary: A First for MHC
Review: This is the first book written by Mary Higgins Clark to be written in the first person (she usually writes in the 3rd person). The story of Ellie Cavanaugh and her quest to pursue her sister's murderer is quite enticing. While I found the story to be slightly less suspenseful than some of Clark's previous novels, I thought that the character development in this novel was much more cultivated.It's certainly a different Mary Higgins Clark novel, but it's still a great read (as always!)
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Summary: Let Down
Review: I agree with the reviewer who stated that this book was Mary Higgin Clark at her worst. As far as I'm concerned this book held zero suspense. It was a no-brainer who the killer was, and the story line was predictable. Even the character development was predictable. If you're wanting a story to kill time (as I did - I bought it to read on a plane), this is not bad. But if you're expecting typcial MHC suspense/mystery, this is definitely not it.
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Summary: Pleasingly Suspenseful
Review: Once again, Mary Higgins Clark has written the tightly woven suspense novel we've all come to expect from her. This time her heroine, Ellie Cavannaugh, is a young woman who has endured a wrenching life. First her sister is brutally murdered, then her parents divorce, her mother succumbs to alcohol, she and her father become seemingly estranged, and finally her mother dies, leaving her alone, but determined to conquer the world on her own. Ellie has a successful writing career until she decides to take some daring risks to show the world the madness that surrounds her sister's murderer. Most of the time she is surrounded by danger and mayhem as are the people who come in contact with her. This character, in typical Clark fashion, is no wimp. She may be down, but she's never out! This book is absorbing and suspenseful, and like Ms. Clark's other books, it has wonderful characters, a plot that holds your interest, and as always, ends on a satisfying note.
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Summary: What Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
Review: The book, Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark, is a thrilling fiction story filled with love, murder, and suspense. Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her older sister, Andrea, was brutally bludgeoned to death. Robson Westerfield, a man that Andrea secretly saw around the time of her death, was convicted of murder and thrown into jail for 22 years. Twenty-three years later, Ellie came back to her home town in hopes to write a book that would put her sister's killer back in jail. Even though Ellie was often put down by people's comments and opinions, she still tried harder to uncover the hidden secrets. What Ellie soon found out about Andrea's killer put her in danger for her own life as well.
Daddy's Little Girl is an awesome book that holds many surprises. While Ellie is writing the book, she reluctantly faces all of the problems in her past. The difficulties that Ellie deals with enhance the book and make it well rounded. The book is full of successful cliff hangers that keep you hooked with non-stop reading. Each character's personality in the book ranges from frightening and mysterious to fun and lovable. I deeply recommend this book for readers that are searching for murder suspense type of stories.
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Summary: Roll Out The Red Carpet because the Queen is Back!
Review: Compelling is the one word i'd use to describe this novel, to say the least, Mary Higgins Clark is a born author who weaves her way into peoples fears with her murderuos novels. Thrilling is the way that she captivly entwines the deciet and truth that haunts the everyday heros of her books.Daddy's Little Girl is no exception, starting out with the Shocking Murder of the Fifteen year old girl Andrea and ending with a Bang with the Confrontation with the Killer.
Daddy's Little Girl will reel you in and wont let you off the hook!
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Summary: Not her best, but a page turner all the same
Review: Ellie Cavanagh is haunted since childhood by the murder of her sister Andrea. The first part is an account of the crime and its impact on the young Ellie. Part two concerns the adult Ellie, now an investigative report for an Atlanta newspaper, revisiting her old hometown and scene of the crime, as the convicted murderer Rob Westerfield is released from prison. Determined not to let the influential Westerfield family pin the blame on someone else for the murder and clear Rob of all charges, Ellie gathers evidence, putting herself in danger in the process. While I found Ellie's website and some other aspects of the plot, hard to believe, the plot was absorbing and Clark's book is a suspenseful read. What I found odd was that although Ellie experienced some trauma from her mother's alcoholism, she seems always to be pouring out and consuming a glass of wine or some other alcoholic beverage. One would think that she'd be afraid of having a genetic disposition to alcholism and limit the drinking. Also, her eventual happiness with her boss seems somewhat far-fetched, since there is little chemistry between them and Ellie (up until late in the book) does not exhibit any romantic feelings for Pete, her boss. He seems more like a pal than a lover. This is an interesting book, but it is not strictly a whodunit, despite Clark's placement of strategic "red herrings." It is more a series of events leading up to an eventual showdown between heroine and villain.
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Summary: Mary Higgins At Her Worst
Review: When I saw this book I was so excited to read it. At first I was really into it but then later on it just turned me off. There was no suspense in this book and you knew who the killer was. DON'T READ AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS BOOK YET
I knew that Paulie wasn't the killer. He was too stupid and helpless to d something like that. The whole book was pretty obvious. I also missed the usual romance that MHC usually adds to her book. The whole thing b/w Ellie and Pete just wasn't enough. The end of the book with the one year later thing diudn't seem to fit. It just seemed like a hasty ending to a not so good book. I was left feeling deceived after reading this book.
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Summary: This is one of Clark's best.
Review: I don't know how she does it, but Mary Higgins Clark once again thrills and chills us with the story of little Ellie Cavanaugh neglected since her older sister, Andrea, is murdered. There doesn't seem to be much room in the house anymore for her now that Andrea is gone. Daddy and Mommy have no place for her in their heart. Or so she feels. The perpetrator seems obvious, but until the police are one hundred percent certain, they suspect everyone, even Ellie. Ellie, even at age 7, does have secrets of her own, secrets her now dead older sister Andrea has made her promise NEVER to reveal. Ellie wonders if Andrea's death means she can tell those secrets now, and she isn't sure. What Ellie doesn't know is that Andrea's well-worn "Swear not to tell EVER" may unlock the key to finding Andrea's murderer.
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Summary: Daddy's Little Girl
Review: Once agian, Mary Higgins Clark pulls off another great suspense novel. The book kept my attention, and I found myself constantly with Daddy's Little Girl in hand, anxiously waiting to see what secrets or clues would be revealed next. This time although, the book hits home, when a family is torn apart and one little girl is left all alone because of one young teenager's violent personality. Daddy's Little Girl shows a little sister's true love for her older sister, Andrea Cavanaugh, and the rest of her broken apart family. Ellie Cavanaugh was only a seven-year-old young child when she found the murdered body of her older sister, Andrea, in an old secret-hideout nearby where her and her friends use to meet. Ellie lived with the nagging guilt for twenty-three years that she may have been able to save Andrea if she only would have told her parents of Andrea's plans to meet the rich Rob Westerfield at the hideout that terrible, terrible night. But because of Ellie, Rob Westerfield was locked behind bars even though he continually claimed his innocence. Twenty-three years later, after Rob Westerfield had served his twenty-two years for the murder of Andrea Cavanaugh, he goes up for parole and a chance of clearing the family name of this horrible act. Ellie finds it her first priority though to keep the horrible killer locked up in jail and the family reputation ruined. After all, her sister was murdered, her parents divorced because of it, her mother became an alcoholic and died, and Ellie lived with the guilt every day. In order to keep the handsome and rich Rob Westerfield behind bars, Ellie must move back to her childhood hometown and start digging into Rob Westerfield's terrifying past. Ellie, a journalist, writes and publishes a book and creates a website revealing all of the secrets of Rob Westerfield's life and the gruesome details of her sister's murder. In doing so however, Ellie puts herself and her own life into great danger. Ellie must pay back Rob Westerfield, or whoever the murderer might be, for killing her sister and her mother and tearing her once loving family apart. During all of this though, Ellie has only an old colleage to talk and confide in about all of her new terrifying and exciting experiences. Luckily for her though, Ellie's stepbrother finds her and tries to protect her but he still may not be enough. Rob Westerfield, however, might not stop at anything in order to inherit his family's wealth and re-establish his good name! My experience with Daddy's Little Girl was a great one. I could not put the book down when finding out all of the new secrets behind that Westerfield boy. I had vivid visual images painted in my head througout the entire story as the plot continued to grow and unravel. As the story was told in first person, I felt as though I went through each of Ellie's good and bad experiences with her. Because she had no one else to confide in but a colleage miles away, I was there for her! The ending was just as suspenseful and caught me offguard as the rest of the story. I recommend this book to all Mary Higgins Clark fans as well as anyone else who is up for a great suspense novel. Prepare yourself to sit down to a good suspense novel that keeps you wondering where exactly the truth is hidden and exactly what that truely might be!
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Summary: What Really Happened......
Review: Mary Higgins Clark did an outstanding job in keeping me guessing. I feel she is by far my favorite author.
It's starts off by having Ellie, the youngest sister of Andrea, telling us that some how she knows something is wrong. Trouble is, her sister Andrea never came home. Her dad, who was a police officer, got his best men to look for her. Of course, Ellie was the only one who knew the one other possible place she could have been, "the hideout". "The hideout" was the garage behind the Westerfield house. So, Ellie walks in and sees her sister's hair spread out on the floor. She couldn't see her face because one it was dark, and two, there was a van in the way. She got a little closer and began to lean forward to wake her up, because she thought she must have just fallen asleep. As she leaned in closer she felt herself in a puddle of what seemed to be Andrea's blood. Her skull had been completly bashed in. She then heard a laugh from the darkness, so frightened she ran out and told her parents what happened.
Now the book read 23 yrs later. By this point she has now dedicated to making sure that Rob Westerfield doesn't get parole. When she's around the town where it happened she has some close incounters with Rob and people on his side. But on a good note more people were on her side. Right before the trial, maybe a couple days before, the most amazing thing happens between Rob and Ellie, it's something that would make your jaw drop. This ending is not expected but great!!
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