Mary Higgins Clark

Trapped in her seventeeth-century past, a brilliant writer exacts an ancient revenge in the twentieth... A child wanders, lost and alone, in the maze of New York... A lottery ticket turns up a winning combination of love and death...

In this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense, a young mother in a new marriage begins to question just how well she knows her husband--and if she and her children are safe in his beautiful but isolated home. When single mother of two Jenny MacPartland meets the man of her dreams while working in a New York art gallery, she's ecstatic. Painter Erich Krueger--whose exquisite landscapes are making him a huge success--is handsome, sensitive, and utterly in love with her. They marry quickly--despite concerns expressed by Jenny's friends and family--and Jenny plans to create a loving home with her two daughters on Erich's vast Minnesota farm. But once there, Erich's mask begins to slip, and Jenny slowly realizes he is not the man she first met. He acts strangely, spends long periods of time alone in his "off limits" cabin, and grows more possessive of Jenny. Initially writing these off as the eccentricities of an artist, the lonely days and eerie nights begin to strain her nerves to the breaking point and test her sanity. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Jenny soon unearths a past more terrifying than she dares imagine--tragic secrets that threaten her marriage, her children, and her life.

In a riveting psychological thriller, Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark takes you deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, is the daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. Their mansion--a historic 17th-century manor house transported stone by stone from Wales in 1848--has a hidden chapel. One day, accompanying her father to work, six-year-old Kay succumbs to curiosity and sneaks into the chapel. There, she overhears a quarrel between a man and a woman who is demanding money from him. When she says that this will be the last time, his caustic response is: "I heard that song before." That same evening, the Carrington's hold a formal dinner dance after which Peter Carrington, a student at Princeton, drives home Susan Althorp, the eighteen-year-old daughter of neighbors. While her parents hear her come in, she is not in her room the next morning and is never seen or heard from again. Throughout the years, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Peter Carrington. At age forty-two, head of the family business empire, he is still "a person of interest" in the eyes of the police, not only for Susan Althorp's disappearance but also for the subsequent drowning death of his own pregnant wife in their swimming pool. Kay, now living in New York and working as a librarian in Englewood, goes to see Peter. Kay sees Peter as maligned and misunderstood, and she soon falls in love with him. Over the objections of her beloved grandmother, she marries him. To her dismay, she soon finds that he is a sleepwalker whose nocturnal wanderings draw him to the spot at the pool where his wife met her end. Kay develops gnawing doubts about her husband. She believes that the key to the truth about his guilt or innocence lies in the scene she witnessed as a child in the chapel and knows she must learn the identity of the man and woman who quarreled there that day. What Kay does not know is that uncovering what lies behind these memories may put her own life in danger...

A corporate scandal and a family's fight for truth unfolds in this nail-biting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense. When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo is assigned the story. Word that Spencer, if alive, has made off with huge sums of money--including the life savings of many employees--doesn't do much to change Carley's already low opinion of Spencer's wife, Lynn, who is also Carley's stepsister and who everyone believes is involved. But when Lynn's life is threatened, she asks Carley to help her prove that she wasn't her husband's accomplice. As the facts unfold, however, Carley herself becomes the target of a dangerous, sinister group that will stop at nothing to get what they want.

A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed short stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense. Henry Parker Britland IV--wealthy, worldly, and popular--is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday--as clever as she is lovely--has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team...and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry frantically back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined. Only Mary Higgins Clark can so seamlessly meld spellbinding suspense, wit, and romance. My Gal Sunday is entertainment of the highest order.

Virginia Wakeling, velstående enke og sjenerøs beskytter av kunsten, faller i døden fra taket på Metropolitan Museum of Art i New York. Ble hun drept? Mistanken går mot kjæresten Ivan, over tjue år yngre enn henne. Men ingenting kan bevises. Kan Laurie Moran oppklare saken ved hjelp av sitt TV-program «Under mistanke»? Laurie begynner å snuse rundt den superrike familien – og avdekker snart mørke hemmeligheter.