FICTION
Released: April 19, 2001
"Along with a pretty transparent killer, fans will have to make allowances for an anniversary calendar of crime that won't stand close scrutiny and a damsel whose distress is considerably more interesting than she is. As if they cared."
A century and more after some fiend has strangled three young women in a seaside town, he's back, or somebody just like him is, in the latest damsel-in-distresser from Clark (
Before I Say Good-Bye, 2000, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2000
"Admire the shipshape carpentry as the preposterous story purrs along while still delivering fewer thrills than most fruitcakes."
Christmas is a time for family togetherness, so it figures that this first collaboration between bestselling Mary Higgins Clark (Before I Say Good-Bye, p. 404, etc.) and her daughter Carol (Twanged, 1998, etc.) tosses together so many regulars from both authors that there's barely room for the crooks.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2000
" Less suspense and more honest-to-goodness mystery than most of Clark's best-selling output (We'll Meet Again, 1999, etc.), though the author telegraphs each twist so conscientiously that few fans will be fooled. "
Clark's heavy-breathing 22nd asks who planted a bomb on a rising architect's yacht, and whether the killer may be closing in on his widow.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 1998
"Pass the fruitcake. (First printing of 1,500,000)"
Lottery winners Alvirah and Willy Meehan are the guests of honor in this second helping of Christmas turkey from megaselling Clark (Silent Night, 1995, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 22, 1996
"Clark's army of fans won't find any unseemly surprises here- -and will know better than to expect much in the way of mystery or suspense in this gentle, upscale epithalamion. (First printing of 800,000; Literary Guild main selection)"
Like Dorothy Sayers's memorably subtitled Busman's Honeymoon, Clark's new cycle of four longish tales is best described as ``A Love Story with Detective Interruptions.'' Certainly her newlywed detective team comes with the most impeccable credentials.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 1996
"About average for Clark's G-rated thrillers, as if you were counting—with enough material on funerary customs to make you resolve to live forever. (Literary Guild Main Selection; author tour)"
The arresting opening tableau—a young woman buried alive in a satin-lined coffin—is a perfect image for the sleekly cushioned menace Clark dispenses in her 13th novel (Silent Night, 1995, etc.).
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