Mary Higgins Clark
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Description
Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 514 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marrying the son of her father's wealthy employer, twenty-eight-year-old gardener's daughter Kay Lansing becomes increasingly disturbed by the suspicion surrounding her husband, Peter, in regard to the mysterious deaths of his first wife and a high-school senior.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
505 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alvirah returns as a periphery character in this fast-paced mystery about Zan Moreland, an interior designer who slowly begins to suspect that someone is impersonating her. Not only have her credit cards been stolen, but it appears someone is pretending to actually be her. If that's not frightening enough, it becomes even more heart wrenching when Zan's impersonator begins implying that she was responsible for her own son's kidnapping years earlier....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Large Print edition
Physical Desc
479 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.
Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor and heart-transplant recipient, is given a plum assignment--the murder trial of theatrical agent Gregg Aldrich, accused of murdering his wife. During the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 289 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder.Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiancé--famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III--fifteen years ago. And Casey claims--has always claimed--she's innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living "under suspicion." She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can't get a job....
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster / Scribner
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband Willy, as well as the recently married P.I. Regan Reilly and her groom, Jack, head of the NYPD major case squad, are back. The couples are on a luxury cruise the day after Christmas along with a group of mystery writers as part of a mystery seminar. The tranquility vanishes when a ghost is sighted on board, a fan disappears, and a storm blows the ship off course. Alvirah, Regan,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a family's past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship,the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood. Lady Em, as she is known throughout the world. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Parker Bennett has been missing for two years. He dropped out of sight-- on a sailboat in the Caribbean-- just before it was discovered that the $5 billion dollars in the fund he had been managing had vanished. Lane Harmon, assistant to an upscale interior designer, is working on his wife's townhouse. Gradually, Lane finds herself drawn to Eric, the Bennetts' son, who is determined to prove that his father is not guilty. Lane doesn't know that the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark. After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The head of a medical research company involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine disappears. Further mysteries about the FDA denying approval of the drug and a revelation that the company officer has looted the company of huge sums of money complicate the investigation into the disappearance. Marcia DeCarlo, the columnist assigned to cover the story, finds herself the target of the dangerous group involved in the sinister scheme.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Doubleday large print home library ed.
Physical Desc
300 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Branscombe, New Hampshire, four employees of Conklin's Market win the lottery by using numbers they had gotten from a man who is now missing and amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan and private investigator Regan Reilly, visiting on holiday, go out in search of him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1975]
Physical Desc
223 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Holloway, one of the fashion world's most successful photographers, is invited by her affluent, former stepmother to spend some time with her at her Newport, Rhode Island home. When she arrives, she finds the old woman murdered--and now it seems Maggie might be the killer's next target.
17) The lost years
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
459 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, has a stroke of luck when a previously missing ancient artifact - a highly valuable parchment - falls into his hands. Stolen from the Vatican in the fifteenth century, it was assumed to be lost forever - until now. Unsure of his next move, Dr. Lyons shares his discovery with a select few but, with so much money at stake, can he trust the people he's told? Things take a turn for the worse when Jonathan...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancé, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their mid-summer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny's...
19) As time goes by
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
" In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire...
Author
Series
Alvirah and Willy Meehan mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
viii, 204 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. They get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The folks who picked the tree don't have a clue that attached to one of its branches is a flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that Packy...