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and#8220;The mistress of high tensionand#8221; (andlt;Iandgt;The New Yorkerandlt;/Iandgt;) and undisputed Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark brings us another andlt;Iandgt;New York Timesandlt;/Iandgt; bestselling novel that she and#8220;prepares so carefully and executes with such relishand#8221; andlt;Iandgt;(The New York Times Book Review)andlt;/Iandgt; about the murder of a respected doctorand#8212;and his beautiful young wife charged with the crime.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Dr. Gary Lasch, famous Greenwich, Connecticut doctor and founder of the HMO Remington Health Management, is found dead in his home, his skull crushed by a blow with a heavy bronze sculpture, and his wife, Molly, in bed covered with his blood. It was the Laschesand#8217; housekeeper, Edna Barry, who made the grisly discovery the morning after Mollyand#8217;s unexpectedly early return from Cape Cod, where she had gone to seclude herself upon learning of her husbandand#8217;s infidelity. As the evidence against Molly grows, her lawyer plea-bargains a manslaughter charge to avoid a murder conviction.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt; Released from prison nearly six years later, Molly reasserts her innocence to reporters, among them an old school friend, Fran Simmons, an investigative reporter and anchor for a true-crime show. Molly convinces Fran to research and produce a program on her husbandand#8217;s death. As hidden aspects of Gary Laschand#8217;s life and the affairs of Remington Health Management come to light, is Fran herself the next target for murder?
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andlt;Iandgt;The Indianapolis Starandlt;/Iandgt; Clark is a longtime master of suspense....As with all Mary Higgins Clark books, the action is fast-paced, starting with the first page....An engaging plot...filled with the ingredients Clark's fans have come to love.
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The Indianapolis StarClark is a longtime master of suspense....As with all Mary Higgins Clark books, the action is fast-paced, starting with the first page....An engaging plot...filled with the ingredients Clark's fans have come to love.
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andlt;Iandgt;Abilene Reporter-Newsandlt;/Iandgt; (TX) When it comes to suspense, there's no writer today more capable of keeping the reader completely absorbed than Mary Higgins Clark. She does it again in andlt;Iandgt;We'll Meet Again.andlt;/Iandgt;
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The Knoxville News-Sentinel (TN)
Another page-turner....
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andlt;Iandgt;Arvada Community Newsandlt;/Iandgt; (Denver) This is Mary Higgins Clark at her finest and her millions of fans will love it.
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andlt;Iandgt;The Florida Times-Unionandlt;/Iandgt; A fast, fun read....You'll be reading late into the night as you have with previous Mary Higgins Clark bestsellers.
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The Knoxville News-Sentinel (TN)Another page-turner....
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andlt;Iandgt;Booklistandlt;/Iandgt; Clark is a master of suspense and an excellent storyteller. andlt;Iandgt;We'll Meet Againandlt;/Iandgt; is first-rate entertainment.
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andlt;Iandgt;The Daily Sunandlt;/Iandgt; (Perry, GA) Mary Higgins Clark is one of those rare novelists whose books get better with each passing year. She is already one of the most beloved mystery writers of our generation and as such could coast along turning out pale imitations of her past hits. But not our Mary; she has to keep being more inventive and more entertaining with each new story she creates. Her latest is andlt;Iandgt;We'll Meet Againandlt;/Iandgt; and it is one of her best....Find a comfortable chair and dive in. You owe yourself this pleasure.
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Roanoke Times (VA) We'll Meet Again speeds along at an enjoyable breakneck pace....
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The Knoxville News-Sentinel (TN) Another page-turner....
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andlt;Iandgt;Roanoke Timesandlt;/Iandgt; (VA) andlt;Iandgt;We'll Meet Againandlt;/Iandgt; speeds along at an enjoyable breakneck pace....
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andlt;Iandgt;The Knoxville News-Sentinelandlt;/Iandgt; (TN) Another page-turner....
Synopsis
"The mistress of high tension" (The New Yorker) and undisputed Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark brings us another New York Times bestselling novel that she "prepares so carefully and executes with such relish" (The New York Times Book Review) about the murder of a respected doctor--and his beautiful young wife charged with the crime.
Dr. Gary Lasch, famous Greenwich, Connecticut doctor and founder of the HMO Remington Health Management, is found dead in his home, his skull crushed by a blow with a heavy bronze sculpture, and his wife, Molly, in bed covered with his blood. It was the Lasches' housekeeper, Edna Barry, who made the grisly discovery the morning after Molly's unexpectedly early return from Cape Cod, where she had gone to seclude herself upon learning of her husband's infidelity. As the evidence against Molly grows, her lawyer plea-bargains a manslaughter charge to avoid a murder conviction.
Released from prison nearly six years later, Molly reasserts her innocence to reporters, among them an old school friend, Fran Simmons, an investigative reporter and anchor for a true-crime show. Molly convinces Fran to research and produce a program on her husband's death. As hidden aspects of Gary Lasch's life and the affairs of Remington Health Management come to light, is Fran herself the next target for murder?
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At the heart of this "diabolical plot that Mary Higgins Clark prepares so carefully and executes with such relish"
(The New York Times Book Review), a respected doctor is murdered -- and his beautiful young wife is charged with the crime.
Dr. Gary Lasch, prominent Greenwich, Connecticut, doctor and founder of the HMO Remington Health Management, is found dead in his home, his skull crushed by a blow with a heavy bronze sculpture, and his wife, Molly, in bed covered with his blood. It was the Lasches' housekeeper, Edna Barry, who made the grisly discovery the morning after Molly's unexpectedly early return from Cape Cod, where she had gone to seclude herself upon learning of her husband's infidelity. As the evidence against Molly grows, her lawyer plea-bargains a manslaughter charge to avoid a murder conviction.
Released from prison nearly six years later, Molly reasserts her innocence to reporters, among them an old school friend, Fran Simmons, an investigative reporter and anchor for a true-crime show. Molly convinces Fran to research and produce a program on her husband's death, and as hidden aspects of Gary Lasch's life and the affairs of Remington Health Management come to light, Fran herself becomes a target for murder.
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andlt;Bandgt;IN WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING SUSPENSEandnbsp;WRITER MARY HIGGINS CLARKand#8217;S SPELLBINDING NEW THRILLER, A BROADWAY STARand#8217;S MURDER IGNITES A SHOCKING SERIES OF DEADLY EVENTS. . . . andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when a career criminal suddenly claims Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill her. andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;The case is a plum assignment for attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace. She spends long hours preparing for the trial, and unaware of a seemingly well-meaning neighborand#8217;s violent past, gives him a key to her home to care for her dog. andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;The high-profile trial makes headlines, threatening to reveal personal matters about Emily, such as the fact that she had a heart transplantand#8212; especially when she experiences eerie sentiments that defy all reason and continue even after the jury decides Gregg Aldrichand#8217;s fate. andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;But little does she know, now her andlt;Iandgt;own andlt;/Iandgt;life is at risk. . . .
About the Author
Mary Higgins Clark's books are world-wide bestsellers. In the U.S. alone, her books have sold over 85 million copies.
Her next suspense novel, Where Are You Now? will be published by SimonandSchuster in April 2008.
She is the author of twenty-six previous suspense novels, Where Are the Children? (1975), A Stranger Is Watching (1978), The Cradle Will Fall (1980), A Cry in the Night (1982), Stillwatch (1984), Weep No More, My Lady (1987), While My Pretty One Sleeps (1989), Loves Music, Loves to Dance (1991), All Around the Town (1992), I'll Be Seeing You (1993), Remember Me (1994), Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1995), Silent Night (1995), Moonlight Becomes You (1996), Pretend You Don't See Her (1997), You Belong To Me (1998), All Through the Night (1998), We'll Meet Again (1999), Before I Say Good-Bye (2000), On the Street Where You Live (2001), Daddy's Little Girl (2002), The Second Time Around (2003), Nighttime is My Time (2004), No Place Like Home (2005), Two Little Girls in Blue (2006) and I Heard That Song Before (2007). She is the author of three collections of short stories, The Anastasia SyndromeandOther Stories (1989), The Lottery Winner: AlvirahandWilly Stories (1994) and My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories (1996). Her first book, a biographical novel about George Washington, was re-issued with the title, Mount Vernon Love Story, in June 2002. Her memoir, Kitchen Privileges, was published by SimonandSchuster in November 2002. Her first children's book, Ghost Ship, illustrated by Wendell Minor, was published in April 2007 as a Paula Wiseman Book/SimonandSchuster Books for Young Readers.
She is co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of four holiday suspense novels Deck the Halls (2000), He Sees You When You're Sleeping (2001), The Christmas Thief (2004) and Santa Cruise (2006).
Two of her novels were made into feature films, Where Are the Children? and A Stranger Is Watching. Many of her other works, novels and short stories, were made into television films.
Mary Higgins Clark's fame as a writer was achieved against heavy odds. Born and raised in the Bronx, her father died when she was eleven and her mother struggled to raise her and her two brothers. On graduating from high school, she went to secretarial school, so she could get a job and help with the family finances. After three years of working in an advertising agency, travel fever seized her. For the year 1949, she was a stewardess on Pan American Airlines' international flights. "My run was Europe, Africa and Asia," she recalls. "I was in a revolution in Syria and on the last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain went down." After flying for a year, she married a neighbor, Warren Clark, nine years her senior, whom she had known since she was 16. Soon after her marriage, she started writing short stories, finally selling her first to Extension Magazine in 1956 for $100.
Left a young widow by the death of her husband from a heart attack in 1964, Mary Higgins Clark went to work writing radio scripts and, in addition, decided to try her hand at writing books. Every morning, she got up at 5 AM and wrote until 7 AM, when she had to get her five children ready for school. Her very first book was a biographical novel about George Washington, inspired by a radio series she was writing, "Portrait of a Patriot." Originally published in 1969 by Meredith Press with the title Aspire to the Heavens, it was discovered years later by a Washington family member and re-issued in 2002 with the title, Mount Vernon Love Story.
Mary Higgins Clark's first suspense novel, Where Are the Children? was published by SimonandSchuster in 1975. It became a bestseller and marked a turning point in her life and career. It is currently in its 75th edition in paperback and was re-issued in hardcover as a SimonandSchuster classic.
Freed to catch up on things she always wanted to do, she entered Fordham University at Lincoln Center, graduating summa cum laude in 1979 with a B.A. in philosophy. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Fordham University in 1998. She is a past trustee of Fordham University and Providence College and currently on the Board of Governors of the Hackensack College Medical Center. She has nineteen honorary doctorates.
She is #1 fiction bestselling author in France, where she received the Grand Prix de Literature Policière in 1980 and The Literary Award at the 1998 Deauville Film Festival. In 2000, she was named by the French Minister of Culture "Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters."
Mary Higgins Clark was chosen by Mystery Writers of America as Grand Master of the 2000 Edgar Awards. An annual Mary Higgins Clark Award sponsored by SimonandSchuster, to be given to authors of suspense fiction writing in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition, was launched by Mystery Writers of America during Edgars week in April 2001. She was the 1987 president of Mystery Writers of America and, for many years, served on their Board of Directors. In May 1988, she was Chairman of the International Crime Congress.
Active in Catholic affairs, Mary Higgins Clark was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, a papal honor. She is also a Dame of Malta and a Lady of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. She received the Catholic Big Sisters Distinguished Service Award in 1998 and the Graymoor Award from the Franciscan Friars in 1999. Honors she has received include the Gold Medal of Honor from the American-Irish Historical Society (1993), the Spirit of Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (1994), the National Arts Club's first Gold Medal in Education (1994), the Horatio Alger Award (1997), the Outstanding Mother of the Year Award (1998), the Bronx Legend Award (1999), the 2001 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Passionists' Ethics in Literature Award (2002), the first Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award (2002), the Christopher Life Achievement Award (2003), the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award (2008), the Carol M. Reilly Award (2008) and the International Mystery Writers' First Lady of Mystery Award (2008). She is an active advocate and participant in literacy programs.
In 1996, Mary Higgins Clark married John Conheeney, the retired Chairman and CEO of Merrill-Lynch Futures. They live in Saddle River, New Jersey. Between them, they have seventeen grandchildren - Mary's six and John's eleven.