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Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor - but she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defence, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly. Kidnapped at the age of four and victimised for two years, Laurie has developed astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out—and then the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession has grown over the years, is revealed. -
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defense, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly. Kidnapped at the age of four and victimized for two years, Laurie has developed astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out - and only then can the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession is stronger than ever, be revealed. -
An omnibus volume containing: Where Are The Children? 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 windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the pain has begun to heal - until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her children and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again...Loves Music, Loves To Dance: A killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, his victims drawn from the women who answer his personal adverts in New York's trendy magazines...Erin and Darcy, besties since college. have moved to the city to embark on careers as a jewellery designer and an interior decorator respectively. Just for fun, they agree to help a friend with research for a television documentary on the kinds of people who place and answer personal adverts, by answering ads and sharing their experiences. Then Erin vanishes...and her body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier; on one foot is her own shoe and on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. She is not the first victim of the 'dancing shoe murderer'...Darcy, guilt-ridden because she had persuaded Erin to participate in the research for the documentary, sets out to meet the men Erin had dated. hoping she will find the killer - not knowing that she has been targeted as the killer's next victim... Let Me Call You Sweetheart: When her daughter's face is cut in a car accident, Kerry McGrath is relieved that the plastic surgeon who treats her is the eminent Dr. Charles Smith. Then Kerry notices something bizarre...Two of Smith's patients bear an uncanny resemblance to Suzanne Reardon, a young woman killed eleven years earlier. Why would Dr. Smith create look-alikes of a murder victim? You Belong To Me: When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself - and those closest to her - to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against. Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor. Soon Susan finds herself in a race against time, for not only does the killer stalk these lonely women, but he seems intent on eliminating anyone who can possibly further Susan's investigation. -
Imagine you're a young news reporter on assignment at a large city hospital, out with a trauma team answering a call to a street mugging...and imagine the victim is a young woman robbed of her identification - a Jane Doe - imagine the medics working to revive her, then finally giving up and removing the oxygen mask that covered her face - and imagine the face that is a mirror image of your own. Meghan Collins finds that few things are as they seem, even those she holds dear. One terrible discovery sets a series of events in motion that lead her to explore the secret lives of the people closest to her, searching first to identify the woman who shares her face and then to uncover her killer. The secrets and the truths, once exposed, can never be denied. And in the days of genetic engineering, nothing can be taken at face value,not even who we are... -
Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Park - a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair. Now, on what would be Matthew’s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebody - but who has stolen her identity? And why? Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself - and those she loves most -in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction. Even Zan’s supporters, including Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective and Father Aiden O’Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity... -
A killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, his victims drawn from the women who answer his personal adverts in New York's trendy magazines...Erin and Darcy, besties since college. have moved to the city to embark on careers as a jewellery designer and an interior decorator respectively. Just for fun, they agree to help a friend with research for a television documentary on the kinds of people who place and answer personal adverts, by answering ads and sharing their experiences. Then Erin vanishes...and her body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier; on one foot is her own shoe and on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. She is not the first victim of the 'dancing shoe murderer'...Darcy, guilt-ridden because she had persuaded Erin to participate in the research for the documentary, sets out to meet the men Erin had dated. hoping she will find the killer - not knowing that she has been targeted as the killer's next victim... -
Published in 1969 as Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives - even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge - in every way. -
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 back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined. -
Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene is showing a luxurious skyline co-op when she is witness to a murder - and to the dying words of the victim... The dying woman is convinced that the attacker was after her dead daughter’s journal - which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It’s an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection program and sent to live in the Minneapolis area, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date - until the strain of deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her to Minneapolis. Armed with nothing more than her own courage and clues from the journal, Lacey heads back to New York, determined to uncover who’s behind the deaths of the two women - before she’s the next casualty.
