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Summary: Better and Better
Review: As someone old enough to have actually visited Palisades Amusement Park, Mary Jane Clark's latest thriller was a wonderful trip down Memory Lane. Even more fascinating is Clark's masterful tale of murder past and present. For those of us who have marveled when TV News anchors can present a whole videography of a famous person's life just minutes after they die, replete with music and voice-over, Clark gives a behind-the-scenes view of "obit" writers and, in Laura Walsh, Whisper's attractive heroine, we get an inkling of what producing such video obituaries can do to someone's self-identity and reputation. Clark also paints a vivid picture of an evening "news magazine" show like "60 Minutes" and all the egos that are at stake with every segment that airs. This is a full-tilt-boogie psychological thriller and, with Let Me Whisper in Your Ear, Mary Jane Clark is getting better and better!
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Summary: I won't whisper: do not bother with this book!
Review: I found this book trite and poorly conceived; the characters were neither interesting nor sympathetic and the plot had to rely on outlandish coincidences in order to plod along. There was no suspense and the basis of the "mystery" was not believable. Even the dialogue was weak.
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Summary: Great read!
Review: I read this book in four hours and loved it. Mary Jane Clark keeps you guessing as to who the killer is and it is always the one you least suspect.
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Summary: Page-Turner
Review: I saw this book in a bookstore and bought it after reading the synopsis. It was a good buy and I read it in one day. The book is written sometimes from many different people's viewpoints,but it isn't confusing like some books are when they are written like that. It focuses on the death of a little boy that happened thirtysomething years ago and the more recent death of a reporter who jumped off the roof of the building she lived in. It's ruled a suicide, but Laura Walsh wonders whether it really is or not. Now she begins the journey of going through the reporter's past. But will the past also include of shocking revelations that she wished she never had found out? Will she finally find out what her mother's haunting words meant that she told her father so many years ago? She also soon finds out that somehow the suicide case and the case of the boy who died thirtysomething years ago are tied in someway. How she doesn't know. But she intends to find out what happened that night to the little boy and how he died and why. All the questions and many more are answered in the end. Get this book and find out what the answers are! Good book for summer reading on a vacation.
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Summary: Clark's best
Review: I've read all of Mary Jane Clark's books, and this one has to be the best. The insider's view of the network news business is fascinating and priceless. The characters feel so real. I was up all night, guessing the wrong killer, until the last few pages.
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Summary: Let Me Whisper Plugs For Products
Review: Ms Clark is a producer and writer for CBS News. The news on TV has become a vehicle for advertising; perhaps this is where the author got her idea that advertisements should be generously sprinkled throughout the book. She devotes two pages plugging glass ornaments by Christopher Radko. FAO Schwarz gets three pages. Jaguar and Range Rovers get honorable mention. Various restaurants get plugs. Cookbooks, magazines and TV shows are also well represented. One character is murdered wearing a Pashmina shawl. Liquor is not generic, only Glenlivet, Dom Perignon, Veuve Clicquot and, the common touch, Budweiser. The blurbs go on and on.The sad thing is that the book is otherwise interesting. The writing, while not of Pulitzer quality, is good. Perhaps in future books Ms Clark will imagine herself working for PBS and can the commercials.
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Summary: She did again and this time its even better
Review: Oh my God, Mary Jane Clark did it again, and this time its better than before. Her latest novel "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear" is true to its media thriller genre. Mary Jane Clark had me hooked from the first page to the last. She is so good with the whodunit's that she had me guessing all the way to end, and even then I was shocked to find out who it was. Her writing is so clear and easy to read, you get hooked on the characters and you get to know what goes on behind the scenes of the television world. She has got the media world down packed. You have got to get this book its too good not to. Also read her two prior books, "Do You Want To Know A Secret" and "Do You Promise Not to Tell," for more info on them check out her website www.MaryJaneClark.com, that's how I found out about them or just read what the other amazon customers have written about them. I really think she is definitely the Next Big Thing...
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Summary: She did again and this time its even better
Review: Oh my God, Mary Jane Clark did it again, and this time its better than before. Her latest novel "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear" is true to its media thriller genre. Mary Jane Clark had me hooked from the first page to the last. She is so good with the whodunit's that she had me guessing all the way to end, and even then I was shocked to find out who it was. Her writing is so clear and easy to read, you get hooked on the characters and you get to know what goes on behind the scenes of the television world. She has got the media world down packed. You have got to get this book its too good not to. Also read her two prior books, "Do You Want To Know A Secret" and "Do You Promise Not to Tell," for more info on them check out her website www.MaryJaneClark.com, that's how I found out about them or just read what the other amazon customers have written about them. I really think she is definitely the Next Big Thing...
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Summary: The best Mary Jane Clark book yet.
Review: The Clark family has a real feel for the suspense novel. This member has set her mysteries around a television network's news division in NYC. Her main character is an up and coming producer of a 60 Minutes-like news program. She is working on a story of the diappearance of a young boy from the old Palisades Amusement Park, not knowing that both she and her superiors at work have ties to the incident. The plot twists and turns are engrossing and I had a hard time putting this one down.
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Summary: A loud "Whisper"
Review: They say to write about what you know, and CBS writer/producer Mary Jane Clark does just that. In her third mystery novel, "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear," she tackles the cutthroat biz of TV news. Unfortunately, the mystery is a lot less interesting than it sounds. Laura is a rising star at Key News, with her uncanny ability to create "obits" of people who are either going to die or have just died. Then there is a discovery made -- a young boy who disappeared at an amusement park thirty years before is found, dead, with all his bones broken. And at a party, star journalist Gwyneth Gilpatric is thrown from her rooftop. Who wanted her dead? A better question would be: who DIDN'T want her dead? Her plastic surgeon, her jilted lover, her lover's angry wife, the coworker whose job she destroyed, even her cleaning lady -- for envy, revenge, and salvaging their careers. Even Laura is under suspicion, having inherited most of Gwyneth's money and possessions. As she begins to unravel both unsolved mysteries, she finds that the murderers may be too close to her... "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear" falls under the shadow of Mary Higgins Clark. It has pretty much the same sort of elements -- glitzy glamour, a high-powered young professional woman as amateur detective, plenty of motives and suspects. It even has the same short chapters. But Clark can't bring quite the level of suspense and vibrancy to her mystery. "Whisper" just doesn't gel. Clark tries too hard to evoke a feeling of suspense, throwing out red herrings and clues by the dozen (although one of the deaths is ridiculously easy to solve). Her writing isn't that good; she spends more time describing designer clothes, furs and shoes than she does describing the characters. However, there are some scenes where she blossoms -- the scene where Gwyneth falls to her death is chilling. Clark's characters tend to be "types" rather than people. Even with Laura's tragic history, she's a pretty boring heroine. The nasty, ambitious Gwyneth is far more compelling. The rest of them -- traumatized guy, catty alcoholic wife of sexy adulterer, cheating lovers, sexy kept girl -- are pretty cliched, and Clark adds nothing to them. "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear" strains too much to be considered more than a very light mystery read. But Mary Jane Clark has some promise, even if it only pops up now and then. Flat and unengaging.
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