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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!
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Summary: The person you suspect, is not the murderer... Believe me
Review: This book is the first book I've read by Mary Higgins Clark. Its very interesting actually. Talks about the murder of Dr. Gary Lash, who his wife, Molly Lash was convicted of. Knowing that her "loving" husband has an affair with a youthful nurse, she went to Cape Cod to just stay away from Gary Lash temperarily. When she arrived home, she was shocked, completely of what she discovered. Her husband, covered in blood, his head caved in by a heavy horse scultor. blood dripping from his desk, made a puddle on the carpet. Molly, for a while did not remember a thing.Throughout this book, Molly regains her memory little by little. And also unfolds the many mysteries of Lash Hostpital. Patients dieing mysteriously... Healthy people who could be saved with a single shot. This book is absolutely entertaining! Especially at the end... where you will find out why all the facts the author put in on the other short chapters existed.
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Summary: Well Plotted Mystery that will Keep You Guessing
Review: Investigative reporter Fran Simmons has decided to do a follow up story on a local murder. Molly Lasch just spent five and a half years in prison for killing her husband. However, even after serving her time she still swears she is innocent and she wants to find the real killer, even if it means talking to the woman who had been her husband's mistress. Then said mistress is found stabbed to death and Molly is implicated in her murder. Molly's husband had been the CEO of the local HMO at the time of his death. DR. Peter Black, one of his partners, still practices at the hospital and several patients have died mysteriously and it looks like he might be involved. Lots of stuff going on in this well plotted mystery. MHC always delivers and she always keeps you guessing. Reviewed by Vesta Irene
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Summary: Mary Higgins Clarks will catch you by surprise!
Review: If you have never read Mary Higgins Clark and don't think you ever will, think again! In We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark there will never be a dull moment. After five and a half years of a miserable life in prison, Molly Lasch is finally out to prove her innocence. Molly has no memory, but believes in her mind that she did not kill her husband Gary. No one will believe her, not even her family, only now things are different. She has the never-ending support of her long lost friend Fran Simmons and her friend of many years Jenna Graham Whitehall. Through days of trial and confusion Molly is finally faced with the fact that the people she trust the most may not be worth trusting at all.
As Fran starts working for Molly and digging deep into the past--everything that Molly loved and hated about it--a whole new world begins to unfold. Molly's lawyer Phillip Matthews is close by both of these girls side every step of the way. As life begins to take a whole new meaning, who will still be there in the end and who will not? Only time will tell as you begin your journey in yet of another day in the head of Mary Higgins Clark!
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Summary: Slow Reading
Review: Mary Higgins Clark's novel, "We'll Meet Again" is not a highly recommend book. The novel starts out slow and only starts to pick up after about halfway through. When the novel opens the reader is left hanging, waiting to discover "who did it". Unfortunately, this hanging feeling lasts throughout almost the entire book. The first half of the novel is very slow moving, making it hard to get into the book and get interested. A lot of the characters were also very dull and boring, making it hard to care or feel sorry for them. The novel was at times also hard to follow, because of the constant skipping around to different characters stories. This made it harder to make the connection between the characters to discover what was going on. The middle of the book contained too much extra "fluff", it took too long to get the story started. Toward the end of the novel, however, the suspense began to build slowly and the reader again wonders who committed the crime. As the story picks up Clark gives the reader a reason to suspect each character as the criminal. Clark begins to make the reader think about the different characters who could have committed the crime. This helps the ending become more of a surprise.
Clark uses foreshadowing fairly well in this book to suggest and to hint to the reader who the killer is. In this novel, Clark also uses irony. At the end of the book, for example, when the killer is revealed and the reader finds that who they suspected to be the killer was not the killer after all. Although some parts of the book were well written, the novel is not one of Clark's best because the story takes so long to pick up and get started.
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Summary: Mysterious!!
Review: I recently read "We'll Meet Again", by Mary Higgins Clark. It is a mystery that is 283 pages. Dr. Gary Lacsh is murdered one night and everybody suspects that his own wife killed him. The only problem is that his wife claims that she has no memory of that night. She vaguely remembers that someone else was in the house. Did she really murder him? Mary Higgins Clark was born on December 24, 1929. She was raised in New York. She studied in the Fordham University in 1974. She recieved a BA in philosophy. Her success is due in large part to her likeable characters. She published the book "We'll Meet Again" in 1999. This book was a great suspense story that got me interested from the first page to the last page. Once I got to know the characters, I felt I was in the court room watching the case with my own eyes. The story had very suspenseful details that twist and turn the story. Clark is very good at describing the character in detial that you start to feel that you are in their heads. Every sentence is important to the case and i felt as if I was investigating. If you like mysteries and stories that will keep you on the edge of you seat, then this is the book for you.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down at the end
Review: Although I enjoy reading all of her books, I thought this one was especially good. The last 50 pages or so were particularly mind consuming - I didn't want to put the book down. Also some aspects of the outcome were really suprising.
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Summary: Murder book
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....
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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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Summary: Fish in a Barrel
Review: What manner of novel becomes a #1 New York Times bestseller and has the New York Times Book Review raving over as having a "diabolical plot [... prepared] so carefully and [executed] with such relish"? One, obviously, painstakingly researched, every detail checked, rechecked, and then checked again. It is unfortunate then, that the extent of research for We'll Meet Again appears to be limited to a Connecticut state travel guide.
Although the author may be known as a mystery writer, this book is much less a mystery than a fawning description of the New England aristocracy that she most likely yearns for. A world in which coffee is drunk from "demitasse cups," live-in cooks are named Pedro, and which is populated by "attractive and socially desirable women." One of sterile emotion and flat character. A world that she is eager to demonstrate her knowledge of in the most insipid detail. There are so many references to Interstate 95 and the Merritt parkway that one would hardly deny that Ms Clark must be intimately familiar with them.
It seems that MHC has a love affair with adjectives. What, really, is a "generous view," and how exactly are "Virginia ham and Swiss cheese removed from a refrigerator with careful pleasure"? Please! The "dried-up" and "tearless" tautologies become "instantly arid". Then there are these flourishing gems of literary style: "His prodigious memory bank instantly furnished the facts he was seeking." In other words, he remembered? Or heart-rending emotion: "It was as though the entire time had been simply a dream sequence. Dream? No- nightmare!" Good grief! Could she possibly have been conscious of the delicious irony in naming her television station NAF TV? And what about the obsession with trivialities, such as the precise manner in which these socialites "throw the rest of a sandwich in the compactor." Who cares?
But enough, because criticizing the literary style of MHC is like shooting fish in a barrel. Unfortunately the story itself is sparse and confused, and eminently comical. Sadistic doctors and evil HMOs are engaged in a conspiracy to kill expensive patients, and when the murder of one of the doctors is witnessed by his wife, she develops amnesia and is convicted of the crime. I can't believe anyone would have the gall to use the amnesia ploy again, but there you have it, MHC is pushing the boundaries of literature- right down the toilet.
A complete waste of time, unless you happen to live in Madison, Connecticut (where it ranks fourteenth in sales by Amazon), or if you like I-95.
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